Vodka and Apple Juice - Travels of an Undiplomatic Wife in Poland by Jay Martin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
When Jay's husband lands a diplomatic job in Warsaw, she jumps at the chance to escape a predictable life in Canberra for adventure in the heart of central Europe. From glamorous cocktail parties and dining with presidents, to snowy sleigh rides and drinking vodka in smoky bars, Jay is thrown into all t ...Show more
Amazing Mrs Livesey: The Remarkable Story of Australia's Greatest Imposter by Freda Marnie Nicholls
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Ethel Livesey was quite a gal...An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had over 40 aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces. Her story stretches from industrial England to the French Riviera, from Ireland to New York, Shanghai, New Z ...Show more
Dirt Music: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2002 - Film Tie-In by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tim Winton's classic love song to land and place, full of unforgettable characters, is now a feature film starring Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Macdonald and David Wenham. Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't lo ...Show more
Happy (and Other Ridiculous Aspirations) by Turia Pitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
What's the greatest quest of humanity? No, it's not the Knights Templar, or life on Mars, or the perfect pair of jeans. I suspect that the number one thing you're searching for in your life is ... happiness. Why do I suspect that? Because thousands of people have told me. So, I set out on a dragon-free ...Show more
Bluebird by Malcolm Knox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones' - The Guardian A stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian beachside suburb. A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prim ...Show more
Gary Ablett: An Autobiography by Gary Ablett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Gary Ablett: An Autobiography celebrates AFL legend Gary Ablett's stellar career. Reliving key moments and events in his life, this memoir not only explores Gary's great success at the very top of the AFL, but also his journey to get there. Drafted in 2001, Gary's incredible career has spanned two grea ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Miltary | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Nabbing Ned Kelly: The Extraordinary True Story of the Men Who Brought Australia’s Notorious Outlaw to Justice by David Dufty
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
David Dufty goes back to the records to uncover the real story of the police officers who pursued the Kelly Gang. This pacey account of the capture of the Kelly Gang reads like a detective story. He lurched through the smoke, his armour glinting in the moonlight, and started shooting. To the weary men ...Show more