Taking Flight by Kristen Alexander

From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in 1928, Lores Bonney was hooked. With her aviation licence and the support of her husband, she took to the Australian and international skies and braved the challenge of long-distance flying – breaking numerous records along the way. Drawing on diary extracts, published recollections, interviews, documents and newspaper accounts, Taking Flight celebrates this audacious pilot’s aerial accomplishments.

Yassmin’s Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian background Muslim woman. With her hijab quickly christened a ‘tea cosy’ there could not be a more unlikely place on earth for a young Muslim woman to want to be. This is the story of how she got there, where she is going, and how she wants the world to change.

The Long Run by Catriona Menzies-Pike

No one ever expected Catriona Menzies-Pike to run a marathon. She hated running, and was a hopeless athlete. But when she was twenty her parents died suddenly, leaving her stuck for years. A decade later she started to go running on a whim, and finally her grief started to move too. This fascinating book combines memoir and cultural history to explore the rich and contradictory topic of women and running.

Call of the Outback by Marianne Van Velzen

After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill abandoned her comfortable urban life as a journalist for a nomadic one, writing about this country’s vast interior and bringing the outback into the popular imagination of Australians. Throughout the 1930s her hugely popular stories about Australia’s remotest regions appeared in newspapers and journals around the nation. Call of the Outback provides a vivid portrait of this incredible nomadic writer,.