The Cattle King by Ion L Idriess
$15.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. This book is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King.
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Series: Australian Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia by Peter Menkhorst
$54.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species of mammals known in Australia. This book provides concise and accurate details of the appearance, diagnostic features, distribution, habitat, and key behavio ...Show more
Blueberries by Ellena Savage
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an arti ...Show more
Growing Up in Australia by BLACK INC.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Series: Growing Up
This special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.'s definitive 'Growing Up' series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory w ...Show more
Patty Mills Beyond Basketball by Boti Nagy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Patty Mills is the first book exploring the Indigenous Australian athlete and trail blazer -- the first Indigenous Australian to win an NBA Championship in 2014 with the San Antonio Spurs. He continues to break records and inspire with his achievements, all of which are covered in this tribute to the ex ...Show more
Detours by Tim Rogers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
'Of all the utterances delivered to me by strangers, my least favourite after "We can no longer legally serve you" would have to be, "Well, that isn't very rock'n'roll."'Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a hard-drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a flamboyant flâneur; a ra ...Show more
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book A New York Times Notable Book of 1998 "There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour -- You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel -- one of the great and most surprising courtships in literat ...Show more
Mark Beretta's Greatest Moments in Australian Sport: The most incredible moments in Australian sport since 2000 by Mark Beretta
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Mark Beretta is a journalist, TV host, author and Australia's most watched sports presenter. But first, foremost and most fervently he is a sports fan. Since taking position behind the Sunrise sports desk in 2000, Mark has had the privilege of being up close to history in the making including many spec ...Show more
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul by Elizabeth Farrelly
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
I've lived in Sydney some thirty years. But I feel that the city I love is under genuine threat. Motorways, Mirrorglass, McMansions: this knock-down-rebuild mentality is everywhere. I get hundreds of emails, all the time, from people who are infuriated, or despairing, over what is happening to Sydney. A ...Show more
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than ha ...Show more