Cadence by Eddie Ayres
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Memoir, intercontinental cycling adventure, music guide - Cadence is the debut book by ABC Classic FM's Emma Ayres. Accompanied by Vita, her steadfast bicycle, and her violin, Aurelia, Emma cycles her way from England to Hong Kong. But this is also a journey through the keys - through the music that has ...Show more
Peter Pan: The Forgotten Story of Phar Lap's Successor by Jessica Owers
$35.00 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
In 1932, they said there would never be another Phar Lap. Yet within months there came a racehorse so wildly brilliant that he was instantly compared to the dead champion. He was Peter Pan. Within months of Phar Lap's death, Peter Pan had won the Melbourne Cup and then two years later, won it again - th ...Show more
Out of the Box Thinking on Indigenous Leadership by Wendy Watego
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Category: australian stories people & history
The Past does not have to constrain your leadership potential. International authors and education and training experts Wendy Watego (Quandamooka woman) and Vicki Scott look newly at leadership. They drill down to the core of you cultural identity and spirit. You get to see how your habits, your decisio ...Show more
Bob Ellis: In His Own Words by Bob Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Compiled by Anne Brooksbank Introduction by Jack Ellis and reflection by Les Murray. Bob Ellis: In His Own Words showcases the best of Ellis's celebrated and much-loved essays, speeches, diaries and scripts, in addition to previously unpublished work, archival photos, and reflections from close friends ...Show more
Fair Game: Australia's First Immigrant Women by Elizabeth Rushen
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Category: australian stories people & history
In 1832, the British government sent 400 young single women to Sydney and Hobart to balance the male-dominated societies. Viewed as a colourful butterflies alighting on the antipodean shores, the women were 'fair game' for employers and potential husbands.
SIR FRANK PACKER A BIOGRAPHY by BRIDGET GRIFFIN-FOLEY
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Category: australian stories people & history
A History of Canberra by Nicholas Brown
$44.95 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a source of ambivalence for many Australians. In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown challenges these ideas and looks beyond the cliches to illuminate the unique, layered and often colourful history of Australia's ca ...Show more
Wild Boys: A Parent's Story of Tough Love by Helena Pastor
$29.95 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
For too long, Helena, a mother of four boys, has allowed her eldest son to call the shots. Even though seventeen-year-old Joey - an early school leaver teetering on the wrong side of the tracks - no longer lives in the family home, she does his washing, cooks his meals, hands over money for his grocerie ...Show more
The Fights of My Life by Greg Combet; Mark Davis
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Greg Combet has been at the centre of some of the biggest battles of our time—the waterfront dispute, the collapse of an airline, compensation for asbestos victims, the campaign against unfair workplace laws and then climate change. From an isolated childhood on the Minchinbury estate west of Sydney, Co ...Show more
Kidman The Forgotten King by Jill Bowen
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
As a barely literate yough of 13, Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia. He went on to become the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history. During his lifetime he acquired a legendary reputation both at home and abroad. This is the story of hi ...Show more