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Steele Rudd's Australia
$20.00 AUD
Author: Peter PutnisBinding: PaperbackPublished: Darling Downs Institute Press, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, very minor wear to some corners from general...
Margaret Whitlam: A Biography (SIGNED)
$50.00 AUD
Author: Susan MitchellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Random House Australia, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, signed with inscriptionThis compelling biography...
Being A Chum Was Fun: The Story Of Nicky & Nancy Lee
$15.00 AUD
Author: Nancy LeeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Listen & Learn, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, some creasing to spine and some general wear to...
Workingclass Giant: The Life Of William Z. Foster
$20.00 AUD
Author: Arthur ZipserBinding: PaperbackPublished: International Publishers New York, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Bumped spine. Small ink mark on back cover.This compelling biography chronicles the life of William...
Robert Redford
$20.00 AUD
Author: David DowningBinding: PaperbackPublished: St Martins Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, tanning along spine and general wear to bookThis biography...
Heroine
$15.00 AUD
Author: Howard BirnstihlBinding: PaperbackPublished: Spikeback Books, 2018Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling work of non-fiction chronicles the untold stories of...
Not To Be Shot At Or Exported: An Airman's Letters Home 1942-1945
$25.00 AUD
Author: Leslie Harold SullivanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Royal Australian Air Force Museum, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis non-fiction collection presents a poignant look...
Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask
$20.00 AUD
Author: Gary AllenBinding: PaperbackPublished: Western Islands, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous bookseller stamp on title page, very light wear to coverThis political biography, "Richard Nixon:...
Matisse
$25.00 AUD
Author: Caroline Turner And Roger BenjaminBinding: PaperbackPublished: Queensland Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, 1995Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis...
Toulouse-Lautrec
$15.00 AUD
Author: Jean BouretBinding: PaperbackPublished: Thames & HudsonCondition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pagesn 249-264 manufactured upside down, light foxing to page edges, general wear to...
The Butcher: The Duke Of Cumberland And The Suppression Of The 45
$25.00 AUD
Author: W.A. SpeckBinding: PaperbackPublished: First Edition., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Minor bumping to cover and some slight yellowing...
The Autobiography Of The Woman The Gestapo Called The White Mouse
$30.00 AUD
Author: Nancy WakeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Sun Books, 1986Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased spine and cover. This gripping autobiography chronicles the extraordinary...
Letters Of Heartache And Hope: A Story Of Emigration After World War II (SIGNED)
$30.00 AUD
Author: Edith TörökfaloyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Edith Törökfalvy, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis poignant historical account chronicles the true story of Edith Torolefaly's family...
David Hockney
$40.00 AUD
Author: David HockneyBinding: PaperbackPublished: ART & DESIGN, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, cover has light general wear page edges...
Grandma Magic: True Stories By And About Grandmothers
$12.00 AUD
Author: Janet HutchinsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Allen & Unwin., 2009Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis...
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story Of Paul Erdos And The Search For Mathematical Truth
$15.00 AUD
Author: Paul HoffmanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Fourth estate Limited., 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis non-fiction biography presents the extraordinary life of Paul Erdos,...
Homage to Catalonia
Orwell's memoir of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. This is Orwell's memoir of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War - a groundbreaking work of dissident literature drawn...
Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice
From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world's richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb's masterful Childless...
The Telling Room: Passion, Revenge and Life in a Spanish Village
In the medieval Castilian village of Guzman (population: 80), villagers have gathered for centuries in the 'telling room' to share stories and drink the local wine. It was here, in...
There Must Be More: Finding purpose in the face of the unimaginable
In 2021, Kellie Finlayson, with a three-month-old daughter, found herself staring down the barrel of a terminal diagnosis: Stage 4 bowel cancer. She was 25. Incredibly, Kellie is still fighting...
Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of
Winner of the University Of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award A deeply personal exploration of Australia's colonisation past, present and future by one of Australia's finest contemporary authors. This is a...
A Secret Gift
A book for our times, sharing stories of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the generosity of a man who understood hardship. A book for our times, sharing stories...
Milkshakes for Marleigh: Extraordinary Stories of survival thanks to
If you have ever donated blood you may be responsible for one of these extraordinary tales of survival! One in three Australians will need blood in their lifetime and yet...
Outback Railwaymen: Life on the Commonwealth Railways
CENTRAL AUSTRALIA RAILWAY NORTH AUSTRALIA RAILWAY TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY "Outback Railwaymen Life on the Commonwealth Railways" explores the life and times of three extraordinary railways, through the recollections and humorous stories...
The Mouth that Roared
Award-winning writer, Robert Hillman, has collaborated with one of Australia's best-known youth outreach workers and social campaigners, to bring his story to the public in that wonderful storytelling style that...
Scum of the Earth
The story of Koestler's imprisonment in France in 1940, his escape and his extraordinary and adventurous journey to the safety of London, which unfolds like some travel nightmare by Kafka....
Semi-Educated
Following on from the success of her first memoir, A Year in the Mud the Toast and the Tears, popular South Australian author Georgie Brooks give us Semi-Educated, a laugh-out-loud...
Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want
"In this hilarious, uplifting memoir, Wolfe describes her intense bond with Harlow...as she grapples with the chaos of her 20s, marriage, and eventually new motherhood."- Washington Post "An engaging debut...
Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life
$12.00 AUD
A revelatory and racy biography of the early life of Prince Philip. One of the most recognisable men in the United Kingdom, Prince Philip has been consort to Queen Elizabeth...
Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood...
Politics On the Edge
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from former Cabinet minister Rory Stewart Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a...
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 'To compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it . . . I finished...
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . ....
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children...
The Stirrings: Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize
'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls grow up. The Stirrings is a pleasure and a shock' Eimear McBride...
Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan
In 1984 journalist Peregrine Hodson crossed the Pakistan border into Afghanistan with rebel mujahedin smuggling arms and ammunition, beginning a thousand-mile journey through the war-torn nation. Fluent in Farsi, he...
Marrying Anita
You are a single woman in your thirties, fed up with the singles scene. You are tired of singles dinner parties, and exhausted by phone calls, e-profiles, and forced dinner...
Broken Dreams: First Nations Classics
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Gayle Kennedy, Broken Dreams is a moving and inspiring story of a life transformed in an accident, told...
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the fact that they have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of, they...
From Manassas To Appomattox: Memoirs Of The Civil War In America
$20.00 AUD
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe...
I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen
Shortly before his second birthday, Allison Moorer's son, John Henry, stopped using the twenty-seven words he had learned. John Henry's diagnosis of nonverbal autism was devastating, even though Allison knew...
No Easy Walk to Freedom: Speeches, Letters and Other Writings
The articles, letters and trial transcripts of one of the great icons of the twentieth century 'There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have...
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
A raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of Ellroy's novels. The theme- the author's obsessive pursuit of women. America's greatest living crime writer gives us a raw,...
The Lucky Doctor
$15.00 AUD
Author: Leslie PoidevinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Leslie Poidevin, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. This medical biography chronicles the extraordinary life and career of...
One Pair Of Feet
$15.00 AUD
Author: Monica DickensBinding: PaperbackPublished: London, Michael Joseph, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMonica Dickens’s semi-autobiographical novel, "One Pair of Feet," offers a...
Goodbye Doctor: Stories Of A Country Practice
$25.00 AUD
Author: Leslie PoidevinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Self Published, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis charming collection of medical memoirs offers a nostalgic look into...
The Travails Of Jimmy Porter: A Memoir
$15.00 AUD
Author: Jimmy PorterBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Round Earth Company Strahan Tasmania, 2003Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn this compelling memoir, Jimmy Porter recounts...
You, Me and Gerry Gee: 60 Years of Australian Showbiz (SIGNED)
$30.00 AUD
Author: Ron Blaskett, Bert NewtonBinding: PaperbackPublished: G Barret & Associates, 2001Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: SIGNED with inscription by authorThis captivating memoir chronicles the remarkable...