Anna Meares Now: Sometimes the End of the Race Is Only the Beginning by Anna Meares
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
From 2004 to 2016, Anna Meares was one of Australia's greatest and most popular Olympians, a winner of two gold medals and medals at four Olympics. She overcame a broken neck to win silver at the 2008 Beijing Games. She is an inspiration not just because of her sporting achievements, but for way she ans ...Show more
The Insider by Christopher Pyne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Christopher Pyne has been many things and called many things throughout his long career in politics. Member for Sturt. Minister for Defence. Manager of Opposition Business. Leader of the House. 'The Fixer'. Any Canberra story he doesn't know isn't worth telling. Now, after 26 years, the ultimate ins ...Show more
Bush School by Peter O'Brien
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond. There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang e ...Show more
Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia's First Children's Author (Charlotte Waring Atkinson) by Kate Forsyth; Belinda Murrell
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
In Searching for Charlotte, Forsyth and Murrell tell Charlotte's story along with that of their own journey to discover her. In an intriguing account, the sisters join the reader in reacting to Charlotte's actions: wondering what could have motivated certain choices; admiring the strength of spirit that ...Show more
Of Gold and Dust by Wills, Samantha
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
All this time I thought I had a creative career and a personal life, but the truth is there is no such thing, there is only a creative life. Samantha Wills started her self-titled jewellery company at just 21-years-old on the dining room table of her share house in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. From Tu ...Show more
Greg Chappell: Not Out: From India to Ball Tampering to Australian Cricket's Future by Greg Chappell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Greg Chappell: Selector, Commentator, Coach, Talent Scout, Mentor, Cricket Legend brings his many years of experience to the fore to discuss Australia's favourite sport from all angles, including scandals, mental skills, and the future of the game. Greg Chappell's retirement as a cricketer was the conve ...Show more
Sundowner of the Skies - Oscar Garden, The Forgotten Aviator by Mary Garden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: new
In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny open-cockpit Gipsy Moth across London's Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person there to farewell him, took off. He had carpet slippers on his feet and a packet of sandwiches on his lap. His plan was to fly t ...Show more
The Man from Coolibah by Milton Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The youngest in a family of five, Milton Jones grew up on large properties in the outback. His father was a farm manager and so his early life was a world away from that of city kids. Milton left school in Queensland in his mid teens and moved back to the Northern Territory. Mustering was in his blood a ...Show more
Nothing New: A History of Second-Hand by Robyn Annear
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: 6 Home
'Given the way we live now,' writes Robyn Annear, 'it would be easy to suppose that newness has always been venerated.' But as this wonderfully entertaining short history makes clear, modern consumerism is an aberration. Mostly, everyday objects-from cast-off cookware to clothing worn down to rags-have ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi ...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
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