The Big Run : The Story of Victoria Downs Station by Jock Mackin
$28.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
The big run captures the spirit of what was once the world's largest cattle run. Incorporating recent history under management of Janet Holmes' A Courts pastoral group.
Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline's childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin. With the outbreak of World War Two, she moved to Brisbane to finish her education. Returning to her be ...Show more
Lonely for My Land : Tales of Karratha Station and the Nor'West by Tish Lees
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
As one of the earliest properties pioneered north of the twenty-sixth parallel in the Roebourne District of the Pilbara, Karratha Station harbours a fascinating history. The 120,000 hectares, with its sixty-five kilometres of coastal boundary, was utopia to the Leslie family - who lived there from 1929- ...Show more
The Last Great Australian Adventurer: Ben Carlin's Epic Journey Around the World by Amphibious Jeep. by Gordon Bass
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
In 1948, the Australian Ben Carlin set out from New York City with an audacious, lunatic plan to circumnavigate the world by amphibious jeep. Fuelled by cigarettes and adrenaline, he forged eastwards through fierce Atlantic hurricanes; across scorching, uncharted North African desert; into dense South-E ...Show more
Not All Black and White: Scott Hodges - the Football Star Who Descended into Darkness by David Penberthy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
On paper Scotty Hodges had it all. In a football career almost without peer, Scott was drafted as a teenager to represent the team he loved, Port Adelaide, and would go on to win a staggering eight premierships. He would break the State's all-time goal-kicking record, win its highest honour, the Magar ...Show more
The Pearl King by Robert Lehane
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
James Clark became the dominant figure in AustraliaAzAzAzs pearlshelling industry, The Pearl King. He ran an oyster business in Moreton Bay that supplied gourmet markets as far away as Perth.
Mother's Story by Rosie Batty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
A profoundly moving and inspiring memoir from Australia's domestic violence crusader, Rosie Batty. Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Ande ...Show more
Work Shy ( Workshy ) by Dave Graney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Following up his 'musical memoir' 1001 Australian Nights (2011), legendary Australian showman Dave Graney returns to the page with a more autobiographical take on his remarkable life. It's half written by Dave Graney, the consummate performer and half-written by Dave Graney, the mere mortal.The trick is ...Show more
The Wasp and The Orchid by Danielle Clode
$39.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
'Have you met Mrs Edith Coleman? If not you must - I am sure you will like her - she's just A1 and a splendid naturalist.'In 1922, a 48-year-old housewife from Blackburn delivered her first paper, on native Australian orchids, to the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. Over the next thirty years, Edith ...Show more
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