"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.
Chappell's Last Stand by Michael Sexton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Swashbuckling and fearless, Ian Chappell epitomised Australian cricket in the 1970s. When he gave up the Test captaincy, he set out to salvage south Australian pride. Chappell's Last Stand zooms in on what was supposed to be the mercurial cricketer's last year as a player, when he went to war with admin ...Show more
Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back In Black by Jesse Fink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
In the early hours of 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, lead singer of the rock band AC/DC, left The Music Machine in Camden, London, with a man called Alistair Kinnear, whereupon he lost consciousness and was left to sleep in Alistair's Renault 5, parked outside Alistair's East Dulwich apartment. That even ...Show more
The Last Snake Man by Jimmy Thomson (As told to); John Cann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. B ...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.
The Last Wild West - The Saga of Northern Territory Cattle Stations, by Neil H. Atkinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Publishers by New Holland Publishers
Guinea Pig in White Wine Sauce by Alan Rochford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Alan Rochford was living the dream when he started Stone Cottage, an idyllic French restaurant nestled in the Adelaide Hills. He had everything going for him apart from experience, money, and the first idea about what he was doing. After two years and one divorce, he began to see the funny side, fed on ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more
Bloody Bastard Beautiful by Mocco Wollert
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The frank and hilarious account of an immigrant girl who follows her German lover to Darwin.Adventurous, love-able and laughable, Mocco captures the heat and vibrance of Darwin and its larrikins, in a decade where the Territory makes its own rules.
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
Sex, Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll - A Year in Kings Cross 1963-1964 by Billy Thorpe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Reflections by rock musician, Billy Thorpe. Details his experiences as a teenager living and working in Kings Cross, Sydney during 1963 and 1964. Describes the formation of the musical group 'The Aztecs' and their rapid rise in popularity during this time.
The Tap Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life -- Without the Boring Bits by Paul Hogan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The icon and legend at last tells his story his way - without the boring bits Paul Hogan first appeared on our screens in 1971 as a 'tap dancing knife thrower' on channel 9's New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the network's switc ...Show more