Sister Viv: The inspiring gripping WWII story of survival and heroism of a courageous young army nurse from the bestselling award-winning author of THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY, LAWSON and HUDSON FYSH by Grantlee Kieza
29.99 AUD
35.99 (16% off)
Category: Australian Biography
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-si ...Show more
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More by Sally Warriner
34.99 AUD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian Biography
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far nort ...Show more
The Women's Pool by Lynne Spender (ed)
38.90 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
The history of McIvers Ladies Baths in Coogee affectionately know as the Womens Pool is eloquently told in these stories by women who have found friendship, sanctuary and simple pleasure as they have gathered and swum there. The history of Coogees McIvers Ladies Baths Australias only ocean pool reserved ...Show more
Picturing a Nation: The art and life of A.H. Fullwood by Gary Werskey
47.50 AUD
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Category: Australian Biography
The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863–1930) was also the most widely viewed British–Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.Fullwood's illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the ...Show more
A Fortunate Life by A B Facey
28.99 AUD
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Category: Australian Biography
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Category: Australian Biography
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde ...Show more
Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Janelle McCulloch
24.99 AUD
35.00 (28% off)
Category: Australian Biography
In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies' college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that ...Show more
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Australia's Unknown Hero by Simon Nasht
23.99 AUD
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Category: Australian Biography
Hubert Wilkins was truly the last - and one of the greatest - explorers. And much more. Born in South Australia, he spent most of his life out of the country - but always remained an Australian. He travelled through every continent, and was a pioneer of aviation. He survived crashes and disasters, firin ...Show more
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