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Stefan Sokulsky / In Their Own Words
This book comprises the wartime recollections of the author's parents, Maria (née Keil) and Leon Sokulsky, who lived under Nazi rule during the Second World War.
$42.50
Steven Cavini / Natalia: Her life, her family, her tragedy
This is the story of Natalia, my mother. You could call her an ordinary person but I’m not sure exactly what that means or how it is measured.
$30.00
Colleen Keating / Olive Muriel Pink: Her radical and idealistic life: A poetic journey
Olive Pink is one of Australia's unsung heroines. In this original and deeply moving biographical verse novel, Colleen Keating enables Olive Pink’s experiences with Aboriginal people in Central Australia to emerge with sensitivity, intellectual curiosity, understanding and grace.
$40.00
Marilyn Revill / Aubrey's Game
With his engaging wit, Aub was a fascinating character. Generous, talented and warm on one hand, he could also be austere, critical and unwittingly selfish on the other.
$35.00
Leann Richards / The First Merry Widow: The Life of Carrie Moore
Born near the docks in Geelong, Carrie Moore was destined to become the queen of the Edwardian stage. From the bright lights of London to the vaudeville halls of Hobart, Carrie captivated audiences around the world.
$20.00
Leann Richards / Houdini's Tour of Australia
When escapologist Harry Houdini toured Australia in 1910 he brought magic, mystique, his wife and an aeroplane. Houdini conquered crowds and nearly caused riots, he escaped straitjackets and shackles and flew through the air.
$20.00
Terry Fewtrell / George, Elise and a mandarin / Identity in Early Australia
‘Terry Fewtrell has produced a very lucid piece of social history. His book is grounded in a keen understanding of the milieu of his family, yet at all times, Fewtrell maintains a clear and engaging manner.’ - Dr Ray Kerkhove, historian
$27.50
Lisa Milner / Swimming Against the Tide: A Biography of Freda Brown
Freda Brown was a political activist in the women’s, peace, and anti-apartheid movements, both in Australia and overseas. A passionate believer in equality, she occupied her busy life with action and organisation. While some of her greatest achievements can be seen in her work in helping to establish and lead pioneering women’s organisations, she travelled widely also in the service of political, peace and anti-racism causes.
$35.00
Robert Lehane / William Bede Dalley
‘This remarkable book... Robert Lehane has captured the very flavour of late-colonial society, from the bushranging days to the 1888 Centennial.’ - Reviews in Australian Studies
$50.00
Otto Gaczol with Andrew Gaczol / One Life, Three Countries
...a remarkable story that serves to remind us of that period of great suffering and upheaval that occurred only one human lifetime ago.
$27.50
Jennifer Horsfield / Building a City: C.S. Daley and the story of Canberra
Canberra residents have little reason to know Charles Daley’s name or be aware of the details of his life in Victoria as a teacher, botanist, writer and historian. But they might be more familiar with the name of his eldest son, Charles Studdy (C.S.) Daley, whose close connection with the story of Canberra for over fifty years is the subject of this book.
$30.00
Hugh Capel / Where the Dead Men Lie: The story of Barcroft Boake, Bush Poet of The Monaro
Barcroft Boake’s star blazed briefly and brightly as an Australian bush poet for little more than a year before he took his own life by hanging himself by his stockwhip in 1892 on the shore of Sydney Harbour. Barcroft’s life was touched by romance, adventure and, finally, tragedy. In Where the Dead Men Lie, his story is told as an imaginative work of fiction, to bring the characters to life.
$30.00