My Beautiful Sisters by Khalida Popal
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A story of survival, sisterhood and the fight for feminism in the age of the Taliban. August, 2021: Kabul falls to the Taliban. Overnight, life for women across Afghanistan changes. The national women's football team faces an imminent threat to their lives, just for playing sport. For Khalida Popal, th ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Amazing Australian tales of pure dumb luck by Eamon Evans
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Eamon Evans dives deep to deliver the most hilarious, fascinating tales of the Australians who were almost too lucky to be believed. The happy accident that created wi-fi. The well-placed piece of coral that saved the Endeavour from sinking. The stroke of luck that made Hugh Jackman Wolverine. Australia ...Show more
Flight of a Fledgling - Growing up and Leaving Home by William Hewson (Illustrator)
30.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Flight of a Fledgling (Growing Up and Leaving Home) is the second book of William 'Ashley' Hewson. It follows with a similar design and formatting to his previous very successful self-published book 'What Birds Teach Us' republished in 2020 in its larger, improved Second Edition. "Flight of a Fledgling" ...Show more
The Peasant Prince by Li Cunxin
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy, who at the age of ten was plucked unsuspectingly from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, is a fairytale that has captivated children and adults alike. Li tells his story with disarming simplicity and charm, with humour and ...Show more
Everything Is Water: A River-Walking Journey by Simon Cleary
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Four weeks, 344km and one inspiring river journeyWhen writer and hiking enthusiast Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of a river that has so influenced his life, he hopes that by walking its banks he will better understand the power and impact of this immense waterway on the environment and comm ...Show more
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis ...Show more
Dear Mutzi: A story of love, escape and finding the forgotten by Tess Scholfield-Peters
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Harry Peters — formally Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi — was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry’s parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps. This story, of forced migration, assimilation, loss, resilience ...Show more
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire by Tea Uglow
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is a book of empowering speeches celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in their own words. This influential collection spans from the 19th century up to the modern day. Great LGBTQ+ Speeches is a pioneering collection of over 40 empowering and influential speeches that chart the history ...Show more
Gay Science by Rob Anderson
55.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Rob Anderson explains queer stereotypes and LGBTQ+ culture with humorous "fake science" that borrows from real scientific principles across natural, social, and applied science categories. Take a deep dive into all things queer with Gay Science and learn the ins and outs of the LGBTQ+ community through ...Show more
How to Avoid a Happy Life by Julia Lawrinson
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From domestic dysfunction to extraordinary bad luck, Julia Lawrinson reflects on her intriguing and eventful life with disarming honesty and wit. Some people are born into bad situations, some people have bad situations thrust upon them, and some people find bad situations through their dodgy choices, l ...Show more
All Hands on Deck - A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World by Will Sofrin
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired by Hollywood to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000 miles for the making of a beloved blockbuster film, "An unbelievable ride . . . Will Sofrin has lived the real experiences and survived to tell the tale."--Dan Shotz, Emmy Award-winni ...Show more
Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback by Andrew Nette
50.00 AUD
Category: Reference
This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognise ...Show more