Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home. In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. Combining pages of her diary, kept thro ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters by Brigitta Olubas (Editor); Susan Wyndham (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world. Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams and made occasi ...Show more
The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing Anzacs by Scott Bennett
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 Anzac soldiers who died in the Great War, over one-third are still listed as 'missing'. With no marked graves, the only reminders of their sacrifice are the many names inscribed on ageing war memorials around the world. Bennett deftly tells the story of such mi ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer living in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but 'not to worry - it wasn't like that scene in Fargo or anything'. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, h ...Show more
Soldiers: Great Stories Of War And Peace
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms, reflecting bestselling historian ...Show more
Returning by Kirli Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
'Mate, you're standing on stolen land.'Returning is a stunning work – a poetic and visual feast that takes you on Kirli’s journey of rediscovering self, Country and Connection. Kirli’s heartfelt experiences address large contemporary themes of decolonisation, self-determination, Identity, First Nations ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Muster Dogs From Pups to Pros by Lisa Millar
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
How ten dogs stole the hearts of millions and changed lives forever, for fans of the TV show now streaming on Netflix and ABC iView When Muster Dogs first hit screens in 2022, viewers were enchanted. Five lively kelpie pups adopted into farming homes across Australia and put on an intensive training pr ...Show more
The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life by Paul Callaghan
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Tired of going around in circles? The Dreaming Path has always been there, but in the modern-day world, it can be hard to find. There are so many demands on us family, health, bills, a mortgage, a career that it can be hard to remember what's most important- you. It's time to reconnect with your story. ...Show more