Memoirs for Mum
The Grand Tour: Letters And Photographs Form The British Empire Expedition 1922
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving their two-year-old daughter behind with Agatha′s si... Buy or find out more →
True North: The Story Of Mary And Elizabeth Durack
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle sta... Buy or find out more →
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she... Buy or find out more →
That Woman: The Life Of Wallis Simpson, Duchess Of Windsor
$22.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
This will be the first serious yet sympathetic book by a female biographer to explain the story of how an American divorcee became a hate figure for allegedly ensnaring a British King from his throne. It focuses on the c... Buy or find out more →
Sinning Across Spain
$29.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
I WILL WALK OFF YOUR SINS.
Pilgrim seeks sinners for mutually beneficial arrangement. Seven Deadlies a specialty.
With these words Ailsa Piper’s journey begins. Less than a month later she finds herself hiking through ol... Buy or find out more →
Paris In Love
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In 2009,New York Timesbestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris.Paris in Love: ... Buy or find out more →
Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Long before SKII, La Prairie, or the coveted Crème de la Mer, there was Helena Rubinstein.
Your mother or grandmother probably used Helena Rubinstein creams or cosmetics once upon a time. But not that many people know a... Buy or find out more →
Baroness: The Search For Nica The Rebellious Rothschild
$32.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it all: children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. But in the early 1950s she heard a piece by the jazz... Buy or find out more →
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
′When I tell people that my father is kind of a total lunatic, they laugh and nod knowingly. They assure me that theirs is too, and that he′s just a "typical father".
And they′re probably right, if the typical father... Buy or find out more →
After Cleo
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Arena Books
Many strong minded women have headstrong daughters. But this isn't supposed to extend to their cats... Some say your previous cat chooses their successor. If so, what in cat heaven's name was Helen Brown's beloved Cleo t... Buy or find out more →
Kath's Miracle
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
'This book isn't a manual on how to survive cancer or have your prayers heard . . . I've had five kids, been married twice, owned and lost a small business and a house. I've known what it is like to come close to death, ... Buy or find out more →
What Women Want
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Ebury Press
With all the moxie of an RSL barmaid and the library card of a research fellow, Nelly Thomas has emerged to talk about nothing slighter than the trials of her generation... She's erudite, earthy and entirely unemployable... Buy or find out more →
Am I Black Enough For You?
$34.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be.
What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author and pa... Buy or find out more →
Sammy, I Love You
$24.99 – Hard back / Allen & Unwin
An inspirational true story of devotion, courage and determination in the face of great tragedy - a story that will touch your heart.
As seen on ABC TV's Australian Story
Sally Nielsen is a wedding planner, whose own wed... Buy or find out more →
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
$27.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
Using her own life as a starting point, Rachel looks at the issues that arise for a woman in the years after she has lived the defining experiences of feminity. She writes about marriage, separation, motherhood, work, mo... Buy or find out more →
Playground Duty: A Teaching Life
$34.99 – Paperback book / New South Books
In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple nylon bodyshirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced down a classroom full of kids in Tenterfield in remote NSW. It was the start... Buy or find out more →
Bossypants
$22.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
Tina Fey is one of the world's greatest comic writers and performers. BOSSYPANTS is her first book.
Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once... Buy or find out more →
The Testimony
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
‘These short stories are autobiographical but I am not their main subject. Some pay homage to remarkable people I have known and loved. Some describe unusual places and events and are a kind of testimony.’
But, contr... Buy or find out more →
The Rules Of Inheritance
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Claire Bidwell Smith, a fourteen-year-old only child, learns that both her parents have cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one compels her to make a series of fraught choices, set against the glittering backdrop of... Buy or find out more →
When I Was A Child I Read Books
$40.00$32.95 – Hardcover book / Virago
Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson?s novel Housekeeping a stunning debut that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize she has built a reputation not only as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also as ... Buy or find out more →
Two Rings: A Story Of Love And War
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
At the heart of this wrenching memoir of a teenage girl’s wartime survival is something utterly unexpected: a love story that blazes briefly in a dark corner of occupied Poland.
Judged only as a World War II survivor’s... Buy or find out more →
Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life Death And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
'A stunning achievement — a monumental work of humane and painstaking observation.' Anna Funder, author of ALL THAT I AM
'Without question the best book yet written on contemporary India. Also, the best work of narrati... Buy or find out more →
A Card From Angela Carter
$21.99 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century: much studied, copied and adored. When she died at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omiss... Buy or find out more →
Reaching One Thousand: A Story Of Love Motherhood And Autism
$29.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
“This is the best kind of memoir – there is a beautiful calm clarity that drew me in, and held me until the end.” – Georgia Blain
When Ben is a baby, Rachel puts his behavioural quirks down to eccentricity. He li... Buy or find out more →
A Cook's Life
$39.95$34.95 – Hardcover book / Lantern
With her Cook's Companion front and centre in half a million kitchens, Stephanie Alexander is the very definition of a household name. Each day thousands turn to this 'food Bible' for definitive recipes, encouragement an... Buy or find out more →
Blue Nights
$27.99 – Trade paperback /
Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. BLUE NIGHTS is a shatteringly honest examination of Joa... Buy or find out more →