Raparapa: Stories from the Fitzroy River Drovers by Paul Marshall
$32.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Nine Kimberley Aboriginal stockmen tell their stories — and each one reflects the hard slog of their lives, particularly the tough and often abusive living and working conditions. These men worked seven days a week, all-year-round for payment of tobacco, flour, tea, blankets and, sometimes, clothing. He ...Show more
Tracker by Alexis Wright
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: STELLA WINNER 2018
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winni ...Show more
Two Cultures, One Story by Robert Isaacs
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'I stood at the school gates with nothing but the clothes on my back. I had no money, no family, no home — nothing to show for the past 16 years except my cheap cardboard suitcase and a reasonable grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic … I didn't know what I was going to do next, but I knew that whate ...Show more
Nicky Winmar: My Story by Nicky Winmar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Thirty years after creating one of the most memorable moments in sporting history, Indigenous AFL legend Nicky Winmar tells his story in a moving and compelling memoir. FROM BUSH KID TO AFL LEGEND Sport is made up of moments that thrill us at the time and quickly disappear. Very few endure for deca ...Show more
God, the Devil and Me by Alf Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties. At once darkly humorous and achingly tragic, God, The Devil and Me tells of the life and desperation of the young children forced ...Show more
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
Close to the Subject: Selected Works by Daniel Browning
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversations wit ...Show more
Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja by Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Full of extraordinary images of the landscape, ...Show more
Pictures from My Memory: My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman by Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
I want our past to be recorded for future generations to read and know and understand how life was for us desert Aboriginal people and how we live our lives now. The Whiteman and the things that he brought with him hugely influenced the changes that occurred in our lives and in our society. I am a perso ...Show more
Auntie Rita: The classic memoir of an Aboriginal woman’s love and determination by Rita Huggins, Jackie Huggins
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Auntie Rita is a revised edition of the bestselling and award-winning memoir of Aboriginal woman Rita Huggins first published in 1994. Rita battled dispossession, poverty, personal tragedy and racism to create a rich meaningful life, lived out during the momentous changes of the 20th century. ‘Most peop ...Show more
Shadow Lines by Stephen Kinnane
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A powerful and lyrical work by a writer of vision and imagination, Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East Kimberley and taken from her Aboriginal family at the age of five, and Edward Smith, a young Englishman escaping the rigid strictures of London. In a society deeply divi ...Show more