Books »Biography & Autobiography
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False Economy
by William J Lines
During the first twenty years of William J Lines’ life farmers in his home State cleared seven million hectares of bushland. A witness to this unprecedented extinguishment, he sets out in False Economy to chronicle and understand the destructionRead more »
Price $21.95
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Out of Darkness
by Ivor Knight
My unhappiness dates from the time when Arnold, Mervyn and I were forcibly separated. As state wards we were delivered into the custody of the Catholic Church. ‘This is home’ we were told…Miserable and apprehensive I desperately tried to cling to my brothers for support and comfort while attempting to understand what was happening. But my brothers…Read more »
Price $18.95
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Pomegranate Season
by Carolyn Polizzotto
Loose photographs you can shuffle about. You can pick them up and put them down again in any order you like. Photo albums are for happy families. Children, grown-up, pass them onto their children. When you are thirty-one years old, and the soaring curve of your carefully planned future suddenly freezes into stillness against the sky, photo albums are…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Sunburnt Country
by B R Coffey
Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, to adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia. Includes stories by A B Facey, Elizabeth Jolley…Read more »
Price $19.95
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Emma: A Recipe for Life
by Emma Ciccotosto & Michal Bosworth
My name is Emma, my story is true and I am telling it because I want my children and my children’s children to know what sort of life I have had, for many things have happened to me. I have seen a lot of changes. I have moved from one country to another — from Italy to Australia — from life on a farm to life in a town, from labour on a farm to work…Read more »
Price $18.95
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My Place for Young Readers: Arthur Corunna's Story
by Sally Morgan
Sally Morgan’s My Place is an Australian classic. Since first publication in 1987, My Place has sold more than half a million copies in Australia, been translated and read all over the world, and been reprinted dozens of times. Sally’s rich, zesty and moving work is perhaps the best-loved biography of Aboriginal Australia ever written.
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Price $14.95
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My Place for Young Readers: Mother and Daughter
by Sally Morgan
Sally Morgan’s My Place is an Australian classic. Since first publication in 1987, My Place has sold more than half a million copies in Australia, been translated and read all over the world, and been reprinted dozens of times. Sally’s rich, zesty and moving work is perhaps the best-loved biography of Aboriginal Australia ever written.
My Place…Read more »
Price $14.95
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My Place for Young Readers: Sally's Story
by Sally Morgan
Sally Morgan’s My Place is an Australian classic. Since first publication in 1987, My Place has sold more than half a million copies in Australia, been translated and read all over the world, and been reprinted dozens of times. Sally’s rich, zesty and moving work is perhaps the best-loved biography of Aboriginal Australia ever written.
My Place…Read more »
Price $14.95
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My Place (pb)
by Sally Morgan
‘A book for everyone: a book with the form and texture of a novel and the complexity and pace of a mystery not solved until the final pages. It is wonderfully entertaining’ — New York Times Book Review
‘A triumphant story that makes you glad it’s been told.’ — Times on Sunday
In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother’s birthplace…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Ten Tiny Things on Wilderness Society shortlist
Ten Tiny Things author Meg McKinlay was pleasantly surprised to be shortlisted for the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature, just one day after winning a Crystal Kite award.
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