My Story by Schapelle Corby
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Seven years after first publication of her number-one bestelling memoir, Schapelle Corby remains in jail, and her book remains her only direct communication with the Australian public. It was meant to be a two-week break to a tropical paradise. But for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare. She ...Show more
The Last Wild West - The Saga of Northern Territory Cattle Stations, by Neil H. Atkinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Publishers by New Holland Publishers
Bloody Bastard Beautiful by Mocco Wollert
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The frank and hilarious account of an immigrant girl who follows her German lover to Darwin.Adventurous, love-able and laughable, Mocco captures the heat and vibrance of Darwin and its larrikins, in a decade where the Territory makes its own rules.
Sex, Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll - A Year in Kings Cross 1963-1964 by Billy Thorpe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Reflections by rock musician, Billy Thorpe. Details his experiences as a teenager living and working in Kings Cross, Sydney during 1963 and 1964. Describes the formation of the musical group 'The Aztecs' and their rapid rise in popularity during this time.
A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back In Black by Jesse Fink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
In the early hours of 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, lead singer of the rock band AC/DC, left The Music Machine in Camden, London, with a man called Alistair Kinnear, whereupon he lost consciousness and was left to sleep in Alistair's Renault 5, parked outside Alistair's East Dulwich apartment. That even ...Show more
Here it Is (HB) by Paul Roos (Contribution by); Jennifer McAsey (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
As I stood on the stage with the 2005 Premiership Cup in my hand, these words came to me and I went off my script. 'For the people who've waited 72 years to see South Melbourne, the Sydney Swans, win the premiership, HERE IT IS!
Outback Midwife by Beth McRae
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
"Call the Midwifemeets In the Middle of Nowherein this heartwarming memoir of an adventurous Aussie midwife's life 'catching babies'. Outback Midwifeis the story of Beth McRae's 40 years as a midwife, from her terrifying first day witnessing a birth as a na've student nurse to her training as a midwife ...Show more
Lawson by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce independent ...Show more
Guinea Pig in White Wine Sauce by Alan Rochford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Alan Rochford was living the dream when he started Stone Cottage, an idyllic French restaurant nestled in the Adelaide Hills. He had everything going for him apart from experience, money, and the first idea about what he was doing. After two years and one divorce, he began to see the funny side, fed on ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more
Detours by Tim Rogers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
'Of all the utterances delivered to me by strangers, my least favourite after "We can no longer legally serve you" would have to be, "Well, that isn't very rock'n'roll."'Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a hard-drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a flamboyant flâneur; a ra ...Show more