A Farming Life: Tales of resilience from inspiring rural women by Liz Harfull
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Bestselling author Liz Harfull shares fascinating true stories of rural Australian women, showcasing the passion, tenacity and resilience required to make a life on the land. Making a living on the land in Australia can be tough at the best of times, but the last few years of seemingly endless droughts, ...Show more
Half Deaf, Completely Mad: The Chaotic Genius of Australia's Most Legendary Music Producer by Tony Cohen, John Olson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
The music and mayhem behind the seminal sounds of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Models, Hunters & Collectors, The Saints, The Go-Betweens, Cold Chisel, The Cruel Sea and so many more'. The most obsessive, single-minded character I've ever seen, outside of the mirror' - Nick Cave. 'I first met Nic ...Show more
Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Miss Dior is a wartime story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal and 'a gripping story' (Antonia Fraser). 'Exceptional . . . Miss Dior is so much more than a biography. It's about how necessity can drive people to either terrible deeds or acts of great courage, and how beauty can grow from the ...Show more
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More by Sally Warriner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far nort ...Show more
Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia by Om Dhungel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything.Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-La hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of ...Show more
Two Mums and a Dad by TOBY ROBERTS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties made them stick out, then a mum with a procession of live-in lovers had the neighbours wondering if this mob had mista ...Show more
Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children by Hannah Barnes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service for children. The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman Trust in North London, was set up initially to provide - for the most part - talking therapies to young peo ...Show more
Penny Wong: Passion and Principle by Margaret Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide.In this first-ever biography of Wong, acclaimed jou ...Show more
Fair Game by Alex Blackwell, Megan Maurice
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Alex Blackwell lived and breathed our national sport of cricket for thirty years. Starting as a kid, she spent her childhood and teen years playing and competing with her identical twin, Kate, who was equally devoted to the bat and ball. But it was Alex who went on to consolidate a spot in the national ...Show more
Growing Grapes Might Be Fun: How We Made a Vineyard Out of a Junkyard at Cockatoo Hill by Deirdre Macken
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
An honest, very funny account of a couple's move to the country for a fresh start. Bursting with optimism and a can-do attitude, they're on a steep learning curve as they establish a vineyard and learn how things are done in the country. I imagined lounging on a veranda overlooking folds of hills stripe ...Show more
Motherland by Stephanie Trethewey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Stories of the strength, heartbreak and passion of rural mothers. 'Motherland had me feeling angry, then sobbing, then laughing, then cheering and finally left me so inspired. These true stories, captured so beautifully by Stephanie Trethewey, reveal the guts, grit and courage of rural women while cele ...Show more
Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms by Margaret Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
A fascinating portrait of one of Australia's most influential women Elected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, Tanya Plibersek has lived almost half her life in the public eye - and is the longest-serving woman in Australia's House of Representatives. But how much do we know about what drives ...Show more