Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide by David Walker, Li Yao, Karen Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendshipIn the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family had no choice but to leave Shanxi province. Heading north, they began a new life, farming the remote ...Show more
Who Owns the West? by William Kittredge
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Literary Nonfiction. WHO OWNS THE WEST? asks the important question that is at the heart of the change transforming the region, and no one is better prepared to lead this discussion than William Kittredge--The Bloomsbury Review.
Driftwood: Escape and Survival Through Art by Eva de Jong-Duldig
$44.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1938 sculptor Karl Duldig, his wife Slawa Horowitz-Duldig inventor of the modern foldable umbrella and their baby daughter Eva, left their home in Vienna for an uncertain future. They found a brief refuge in Singapore before arriving in Sydney on 25 September 1940. Australia was at war: they were cla ...Show more
All of This - A Memoir of Death and Desire by Rebecca Woolf
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir."--ROXANE GAY "Wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed."--JENNY LAWSON "Disturbing and profound, this intimate book also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bo ...Show more
Forever Young - A Memoir by Hayley Mills
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this New York Times and USA Today bestseller, iconic actress Hayley Mills shares personal memories from her storied childhood, growing up in a famous acting family and becoming a Disney child star, trying to grow up in a world that wanted her to stay forever young. The daughter of acclaimed British a ...Show more
Cannon Fire: A Life in Print by Michael Cannon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The froth and the bubble and the standing like stoneMichael Cannon is best known as the author of landmark and popular works of Australian history, including The Land Boomers (1966), and as the founding editor of Historical Records of Victoria. But Cannon, the child and grandchild of important figures i ...Show more
The Next Chapter - Making Peace with Hard Memories, Finding Hope All Around Me, and Clearing Space for Good Things to Come by Jana Kramer
$62.99 AUD
Category: Biography
New York Times bestselling author and country music superstar, Jana Kramer, reveals how she said goodbye, started again, moved on, and trusted God after her marriage came to a sudden end. The Next Chapter is Jana Kramer's intimate and moving account about setting her life back on the right path after h ...Show more
The Bootmaker of Berlin by Debbie Terranova
$33.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Berlin, 2010: A deathbed promise launches Kathy Giuliano on a quest for the truth about her family during World War II. Alone, she travels to Berlin in search of an enigmatic octogenarian who holds the keys to the past. The only clues to his identity and whereabouts and are a black-and-white photograph ...Show more
From the Inside - The First Nine Weeks of the Black Summer Fires in the Upper Murray by Janice Newnham (Photographer)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From The Inside is a personal view of the 2019/20 Green Valley / Black Summer Bushfire impact on the Newnhams' farm, home, family, and community from inside the fire zone in Walwa, Victoria, Australia.Isolated from friends and family and enmeshed in the fight to defend her farm from the 2019/2020 Black ...Show more
Fatherhood by William McInnes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
William McInnes, one of Australia's best-known storytellers and actors, has turned to a subject that is close to his heart. Fatherhood is about family, about memories of his father and the memories he's creating as a dad himself, with his own son and daughter. Warm, witty and nostalgic, these tales are ...Show more
Proud to be a Wharfie by Jim Beggs
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This is Begg's account of 62 years on the Melbourne waterfront. He describes the changes over the years to a physically demanding, financially uncertain and dangerous job - from the 'Bull days', the 'open pickup' and the casual system to permanency and containerization.