The Angels by Bob Yates
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The Angels roared out of the 1970s with multi-platinum albums, hits and record-breaking tours. The band was formed by the trio of Rick and John Brewster and Doc Neeson. Songs from their classic albums are as pertinent today as they were when they were released, thanks to John and Rick, the genius songwr ...Show more
"Gelignite" Jack Murray - an Aussie larrikin legend by Phil MURRAY
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The story of a legendary larrikin as told by his son Phil Murray. Murray was best known as the rally driver who in 1954 won the REDeX 'Around Australia' Reliability Trial without the loss of a single point; but Jack's sporting interests and achievements were eclectic and far-ranging.
Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History by Mandy Sayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present. Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots of R ...Show more
The Red Coast by Di Morrissey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Di Morrissey returns to the red earth of the Kimberley with a passionate story of resistance and resilience under its soaring blue skies.After the upheaval which separated Jacqui Bouchard from her beloved son, she has finally settled in Broome, a magical remote town on the northwest coast of Australia. ...Show more
Australia: A Cultural History by John Rickard
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Monash Classics Ser.
`A perceptive, balanced, wide-ranging interpretation of the evolution of modern Australia which is both erudite and well-written' - Duncan Bythell John Rickard's Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has also ...Show more
Women of Spirit by Anne Crawford
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Inspiring true-life stories of women who've grown up connected with the country or who've fallen in love with it or with the men working it. Women who've struggled through bushfires, floods, poverty, discrimination and accidents to come out smiling at the other end. Stories of hardship, triumph, resilie ...Show more
The Things That Make Us: Life, Loss and Football by Nick Riewoldt; Peter Hanlon (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The revealing and insightful autobiography of an AFL superstar.
Great Australian Motorcycle Stories by John Bryant
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A bumper collection of yarns from motorcyclist enthusiasts around Australia. Get out on the highway and into this new collection of all-Australian motorcycle stories - the latest addition to ABC Books' bestselling Great Australian series. Edited by John Bryant and full of laconic Aussie humour, the coll ...Show more
Ian McKellen: The Biography by Garry O'Connor
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Few actors achieve in their lifetime what Sir Ian McKellen has. A repertoire of vast commercial success coupled with critically acclaimed and authoritative Shakespearian roles. A man whose gargantuan personality and varied achievements inspire both admiration and affection. McKellen has been feted and a ...Show more
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius by Peter FitzSimons
$41.99 AUD
Category: General
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Ma ...Show more
Nature's Line: George Goyder by Janis Sheldrick
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries - who satirised him as the discoverer of the inland sea - in understandi ...Show more