Living the Good Life : How one family changed their world from their own backyard by Linda Cockburn
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This book presents an engaging and insightful look at one family's attempts to change their consumer led lifestyle. It includes tips, anecdotes and recipes for the environmentally conscious. In the spirit of BBC2's "It's Not Easy Being Green", here is a winning account of one family's quest to begin cha ...Show more
Patrick White: A life by David Marr
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster ...' Patrick White Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogra ...Show more
This is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield by Paul Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Carter writes as if he has ADD, careering through his life on oil rigs in exotic locations. He won't win the Booker, but his yarns burn with anarchic energy ...in a word, irrepressible.' - Herald Sun He's back on the rigs and back in trouble. Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out mor ...Show more
Vital Signs: Stories from Intensive Care by Ken Hillman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
This gripping collection of stories about the experiences of intensive care patients, their families and carers, is about ordinary people facing terrible tragedies and the ways they cope with them. The author, an experienced intensive care clinician, takes the reader on a journey inside an intensive car ...Show more
Gandhi: Naked Ambition by Jad Adams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience (satyagraha), honoured in India as 'father of nation', Mohandas K. Gandhi has inspired movements for civil rights and political freedom across the ...Show more
Not Dark Yet by David Walker
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Spurred on by his encroaching blindness, prominent historian David Walker's Not Dark Yet is a frank, witty and innovative memoir that connects the small, seemingly inconsequential events of daily life to larger historical themes of family, war, patriotism, racial identity, religious belief, knowledge of ...Show more
In the Land of Oz by Howard Jacobson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On what he calls 'the adventure of his life', Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the outback, or the even wilder women of the seaboard cities. In pursuit of the best of ...Show more
I've Been There (and Back Again) by Joy McKean
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The perfect gift book for Slim Dusty's legions of fans, whose numbers are still strong even years after his death. Joy McKean wrote many of her husband Slim Dusty's most well-loved songs, such as Lights on the Hill and When the Rain Tumbles Down in July . She is a natural writer and now she turns her ta ...Show more
The View from the Valley of Hell: Four years in the Middle East by Mark Willacy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From 2002 to 2006 Mark Willacy was the ABC Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalam and Baghdad, observing first hand some of the most dramatic and violent events of the twenty first century. His account of these four turbulant years is personal, informed and utterly riveting, Mark captures the hum ...Show more
The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten: the Memoirs of Marjorie Quinn by Marjorie Quinn
$34.95 AUD
Category: Memoir
Including personal anecdotes of political and literary figures, with many of whom Quinn became good friends, The Years that the Locust hath Eaten is an historical document which provides a snapshot of the literary and political world of Sydney at the time of Federation and the first decades of the twent ...Show more
A Youth Not Wasted by Ian Parkes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'People who truly live in the outback listen to it. What they hear, I do not know ...What the country says is beyond words.' In the early 1950s, Australia was riding on the sheep's back and no-one doubted the wisdom of making a life in the wool industry, certainly not sixteen-year-old Ian Parkes. Having ...Show more