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Bestselling author and biographer Grantlee Kieza turns his focus to the remarkable story of Mary Penfold, the mother of the Australian wine industry – a self-taught vintner and business genius who emigrated to a frontier settlement and built her family's small vineyard into one of the world's most respected winemakers.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Harrower was a complicated woman who wrote incisive and well-received novels early in her long life, then stopped. She moved in literary and political circles, and was a beloved and sociable friend (our founder, Eve Abbey, knew her well) who shrunk from over-familiarity, yet devoted herself to people who drew upon her time and strength.
This very fine biography draws on Wyndham’s own friendship with Harrower, personal correspondence and acute literary analysis to give a picture of a remarkable woman and her place in Australian literature. Lindy
Em Rusciano – singer, stand-up comedian and podcast maven – didn't mean to write a memoir. She meant to write something fun. Light. Maybe erotic. Instead, she bled onto the page ...
As we gear up for an Australian summer that is guaranteed to be a scorcher, William McInnes applies his larger than life personality to stories of life under the Australian sun.
The Saturday Age calls it 'A mix of memoir, observation and discourse, delivered in the seemingly off-hand manner of a backyard semiotician’.
It’s not a straight line from the fast lane to the baking game; there’s a lot of uphill and there can be perilous lows.
Kate Reid has travelled this path – from Formula 1 to founding Lune Croissanterie – and succeeded wildly (in business and in life), by giving her all to her passions.
Egyptian/Australian journalist, Daniel Nour, says this is the book for you if you've ever had someone try to arrange a marriage for you, have so many cousins you can't remember all their names, if your parents only show love through food and unsolicited advice, or if your family still thinks your 'roommate' is 'just a great friend'.
Growing up, SBS Insight host Kumi Taguchi thought her father was merely distant: reserved, obsessively frugal and – after her parents’ divorce – almost entirely missing. When he died, Kumi’s feelings about him and the Japanese heritage he had given her remained tangled.
In The Good Daughter, Kumi sets out to understand the dad she never really knew, and – along the way – herself.
Jacqueline Kent looks at the women between the early suffragettes and the feminists of the 1970s – their lives, their causes, their words, art and achievements.
Inconvenient Women traces these women's stories, shaped by the seismic social and political events of their time, and illuminates their immense courage and principled determination to change the world.
'Frog', a term of endearment for intensive care paramedics, derives from the notion that everything they touch croaks.
Sally Gould delivers a gripping and heartfelt memoir that dives into the unpredictable, often absurd, and sometimes heartbreaking reality of life as a paramedic.
A Step to the Right
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Fiery Tales
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The Courageous Life of Weary Dunlop
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The Eye of the Dragonfly
My Life Seeing the World Through...
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Take My Advice, I'm Not Using It!
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Sheila
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The Bank Robber's Boy
Born into crime, scarred by violence—one...
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Matters of the Heart
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Outrageous Fortunes
The Adventures of Mary Fortune,...
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Women of a Certain Courage
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