Wild Love: The ambitions of Adelaide Ironside by Kiera Lindsey
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Category: Australian Biography
Kiera Lindsey uncovers the life of the talented and exuberant colonial painter Adelaide Ironside, following in her footsteps from the shores of Sydney harbour to the leading artistic circles of Europe. Colonial lasses were expected to marry at 16, but she wanted to be an artist, not a wife, and she had ...Show more
The Many Lives of Barry Humphries (PB): A Treasury of Reminisces by Rowan Dean
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Category: Australian Biography
Actor, comedian, raconteur, writer, poet, painter, songwriter, music lover and one of the most gifted artists of the last century, Barry Humphries was an Australian global superstar. In this affectionate tribute, Rowan Dean, one of the last people to spend time alone with his friend Barry, reminisces th ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Category: Australian Biography
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde ...Show more
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More by Sally Warriner
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Category: Australian Biography
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far nort ...Show more
The Extraordinary Memoirs of Sandy Mclennan, Gambler 1860-1943 - From Www.clanmaclennan-Worldwide.com/genealogy by Bruce A. McLENNAN (Editor)
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Biography
"Sandy" McLennan 1860-1943, a gifted mathematician with a good memory, from 1890 based his family in London and from there he had a life around the world mixing with the rich and famous, including some of the greatest gamblers of his time. He took many voyages between Britain and New York. He was a clos ...Show more
A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons by Thomas Keneally
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Category: Australian Biography
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite the Depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The utopian strain was very strong . . . if we we ...Show more
An Unsentimental Bloke: The life and work of C.J. Dennis by Philip Butterss
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Category: Australian Biography
The Sentimental Bloke and Doreen are famous characters in Australian popular culture, but their creator deserves to be better known. C.J. Dennis transformed the larrikin from a street thug into a respectable image of Australian identity, and helped shape the Anzac legend. Many people regarded Dennis him ...Show more
Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s by Marion Houldsworth
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Category: Australian Biography
Growing up in North Queensland in the early 1900's. Australian children of this new millennium takes for granted a lofestyle that includes videos, T.V. Soapies, DVDs, computer games. But the children of a hundred years ago, the Federation era, had a different set of expectations. They walked barefoot th ...Show more
Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Janelle McCulloch
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Category: Australian Biography
In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies' college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that ...Show more
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty by Ash Barty
32.99 AUD
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Category: Australian Biography | Reading Level: near fine
It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team it's always been important to reflect on every part of ...Show more
The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste De Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia by Patricia Clancy
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Category: Australian Biography
A former Parisian courtesan, bare-back-rider and polka dancer, Celeste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne when she arrived in 1854 as the Frenc Consul's wife. Her vivid first-hand memories of years spent in the diplomatic and government house circles and on the goldfields reveal her as a woman of great ...Show more
The Only Way Home: One woman, two donkeys and an extraordinary outback journey of healing and renewal by Liz Byron
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Category: Australian Biography