My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Co ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more
Catch a Falling Star (Jeanne Little Biography) by Katie M. Little
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
In 1974 Jeanne Little burst into the living rooms of millions of households across Australia with her ?rst appearance on The Mike Walsh Show - audiences didn't know what hit them! With a ?gure like Twiggy, false eyelashes and a raucous voice that screamed 'Hello Daaaaaaahling!', Jeanne was an instant se ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$35.00 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history | Series: Aust
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more
Because A White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Kevin Gilbert's powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism. First published in 1973, Gilbert's controversial account of ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian hero's classic tale of Antarctic discovery and adventure by Douglas Mawson
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD is a tale of discovery and adventure, of pioneering deeds, great courage, heart-stopping rescues and heroic endurance. This is Mawson's own account of his years spent in sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds. At its heart is the epic journey of 1912-13, during which both hi ...Show more
Mugun & Gun: Resisting New England Frontier Wars - Edition One
$12.00 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
The House: The Dramatic Story of the Sydney Opera House and the People Who Made It by Helen Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the worse. Helen Pitt tells the stories of the people behind the magnificent white sails of the Sydney Opera H ...Show more
Teacher: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching by Gabbie Stroud
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation by Hannah Gadsby
$49.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. But while her worldwide fame might have looked like an overnight sensation, her path from open mic to the global s ...Show more