Australia's Leading Female Writers Give Their Mother's Day Choices
I Am Melba
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
I Am Melba - how a Melbourne girl defied her father and left her husband to become the most famous singer of the age.
Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell showed musical promise and dreamed of fame, but her father ha... Buy or find out more →
The View From Castle Rock
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
On a clear day, you could see 'America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advanta... Buy or find out more →
The Price Of Motherhood
$25.95 – Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company
In this provocative book, award-winning economics journalist Crittenden argues that although women have been liberated, mothers have not, and she offers a much-needed accounting of the price mothers pay to carry out soci... Buy or find out more →
Maternal Desire
$33.00 – Paperback book / Virago
This is an important and exciting addition to the debate about children, love and the inner life.
Does identifying and talking about maternal desire feed old notions about women's nature and justify restrictions of their... Buy or find out more →
Breath
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and ... Buy or find out more →
What Mothers Do
$0.00 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
Empowering and revolutionary new exploration of motherhood. 2004. Buy or find out more →
Conversations With The Mob
$49.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Univ West Aust Pr
In 2002, Walkley Award-winning photojournalist Megan Lewis went to live with the Martu people - one of the last Indigenous groups in Australia’s vast Western Desert to come into contact with Europeans. Through this stunn... Buy or find out more →
Towards Another Summer
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Sometimes, Grace thought, "no thank you" was the most chilling phrase in the English language. Janet Frame wrote this small and exquisite novel in 1963 whilst taking a break from her longest novel, The Adaptable Man. It'... Buy or find out more →
Lay Of The Land
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
WithThe Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – afterIndependence Daywon both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed byThe Timesof London as “an extraord... Buy or find out more →
Life Class
$32.95$14.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
When war breaks out in 1914, Paul Tarrant, a student at the Slade School of Art, leaves behind his attempted life as an artist and his beautiful fellow-student Elinore to tend to casualties on the front line. His life as... Buy or find out more →
Arthur Boyd: A Life
$65.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Although much has been written about the Boyd family, there has never been a book devoted exclusively to Arthur Boyd: one of Australia's greatest artists. This memoir is an absorbing and ultimately very moving piece that... Buy or find out more →
Two Lives: Gertrude And Alice
$32.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
A biography of two of the most interesting literary women to emerge in the early 20th century. Gertrude Stein, American-born, moved to France at the age of 28, where she quickly became immersed in the cultural and artist... Buy or find out more →
Savage Beauty: The Life Of Edna St Vincent Millay
$23.95 – Paperback book / Random Century
A "New York Times" Notable Book, this landmark biography uncovers for the first time the dark side of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the most famous poet of the Jazz Age. Buy or find out more →
Angle Of Repose
$22.95 – Paperback book / Pengmod
There Is No Me Without You
$25.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
This volume presents the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. Today, Haregewoin runs a school, a daycare sys... Buy or find out more →