Top End Girl by Miranda Tapsell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Ever since I was thirteen years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have ... what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the "Top End". Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory h ...Show more
Girl from the Great Sandy Desert by Jukuna Mona Chuguna
$16.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Age range 8-12 The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert is the charming account of the life of Mana, a young Walmajarri girl, and her family, in the desert country of north-west Australia. Simultaneously delightful tales of children growing up and a social and cultural history of a way of life, Mona Chuguna ...Show more
BEE HILL RIVER MAN KANDULANGU-BIDI by MCPHEE JACK
$18.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The oldest living Nyamal (Pilbara) speaker recalls his life spent in the Central Western part of Western Australia, and Port Hedland's rough environs. Disowned by his real father, the storekeeper at Moolyella, Jack was brought up by his mother Mary Ann Bandijim and his "father in the Aboriginal way" San ...Show more
Maybe Tomorrow by Boori Monty Pryor; Meme McDonald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the Aboriginal fringe camps of his birth to the catwalk, basketball court, DJ console and more--this is a new anniversary edition of Boori Monty Pryor's life, his pain, his joy, and his hopes, and is as powerful now as it was when it was first published in 1998. Boori Monty Pryor's career path has ...Show more
The Cherry Picker's Daughter by Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This second edition of The Cherry Picker's Daughter is an exquisite portrait of growing up Aboriginal on the fringes of outback towns in NSW in the mid-twentieth century. Its an important book for school libraries and classrooms, with profound insights into the extraordinary strength, resilience and ing ...Show more
The Bauhinia Tree: The Life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight by Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With deep roots in Australia's Kimberley region, Olive Knight shares her story of growing up with the Gooniyandi and Walmatjarri peoples of northwestern Australia. As the daughter of a half-caste father, she was nearly killed on the day of her birth, as was customary for halfblood children in her commun ...Show more
Waiting at the Gate by Robyn Caughlan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of five, after years of abuse, and just months after the death of her father, Robyn was sent on a holiday and was never returned to her family. She waited at the gate for her mother to return but it soon dawned on her that her family was not coming to get her. This is Robyn's story. From humb ...Show more
And then I found me by Noel Tovey
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Noel Tovey’s previous memoir, Little Black Bastard ( Hodder Headline Australia 2004, shortlisted Victorian Premier’s Prize for Indigenous Writing, Australian Human Rights Award) chronicled his extraordinary life – from a childhood lived in poverty, through to his international stage career, return to Au ...Show more
Two Ways Strong Jaz's Story by Indigenous Literacy Foundation
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Going to boarding school can be a difficult transition for many students, but for Indigenous students from remote communities, it can be quite a culture shock. In Two Ways Strong, Indigenous students from Concordia Lutheran College have combined to tell their experience in a story about Jaz a young girl ...Show more
The Man From the Sunrise Side by AMBROSE MUNGALA CHALARIMERI
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In classic storytelling style, Ambrose Chalarimeri speaks from the heart in this powerful life story.It is an extraordinary account of people from the far north Kimberley of Western Australia who have experienced change and upheaval on a monumental scale