Australia's Leading Female Writers Give Their Mother's Day Choices
I Am Melba
$32.95 (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... More »
The View From Castle Rock
$24.95 (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... 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... 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... More »
What Mothers Do
$25.00 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )
Empowering and revolutionary new exploration of motherhood. 2004. More »
Conversations With The Mob
$49.95 (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... More »
Towards Another Summer
$23.95 (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. I... More »
Lay Of The Land
$22.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
It is fall, 2000, and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at leas... More »
The Uncommon Reader
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Bur... 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... 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... More »
Two Lives: Gertrude And Alice
$32.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
Staff review This book is a real treat. Written by one of the world’s great writers, about two of the twentieth century’s most intriguing literary fi gures, (modernist master Gertrude Stein and ‘worker bee’ Alice B. Tokl... More »
Selected Poems
$24.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
A magnificent anthology of the finest works of Edna St. Vincent Millay, perhaps the premier American lyricist of the twentieth century. More »
Savage Beauty: The Life Of Edna St Vincent Millay
$25.95 (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. More »
Angle Of Repose
$22.95 (Paperback book / Pengmod )
The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone diseas... More »
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... More »