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BIOGRAPHY & TRUE STORIES
A SUNBURNT CHILDHOOD
OF ASHES AND RIVERS
THAT RUN TO THE SEA
Toni Tapp Coutts
RRP $32.99
Toni Tapp grew up on the massive Killarney Station,
where her stepfather was a cattle king. She lived
in a shack that had no electricity or running water
and the oppressive climate of the Territory tested
everyone. Toni brings vividly to the page a story
seldom told: a Territory childhood, with all its
colour, characters and contradictions.
Marie Munkara
RRP $34.99
DUE 2ND MAY
THE LONG GOODBYE
HEARTLINES
P.J. Parker
RRP $29.99
“On 13th October my father killed my mother”. And so
begins this extraordinarily, moving and powerful memoir
of an Australian family. Spanning three generations of a
rural Queensland farming family, The Long Goodbye is
an unforgettable story of love and loss. When Pamela’s
mother succumbs to advanced dementia her father
ends her mother’s life before taking his own life several
weeks later. This is a remarkable love story.
Susannah McFarlane
Robin Leuba
RRP $34.99
DUE 2ND MAY
WILD BY NATURE
Aminah Hart
RRP $32.99
In Wild by Nature, Sarah Marquis, a National
Geographic Explorer, recounts her extraordinary solo
hike that took her from one end of the planet to the
other. Her story is an incredible record of adventure,
persistence and resilience that shows firsthand what
it is to journey in some of the most beautiful but
dangerous and inhospitable regions on earth.
How I Met Your Father is a heart-warming story of
triumph after terrible tragedy, of finding love and
happiness in a most unusual way. It is the story
of the extraordinary, back-to-front romance of IVF
recipient Aminah Hart and her anonymous sperm
donor, Scott Andersen.
AUSSIE MIDWIVES
HOW (NOT) TO START AN ORPHANAGE…
BY A WOMAN WHO DID
Fiona McArthur
RRP $35.00
Tara Winkler
RRP $32.99
Aussie Midwives tells the extraordinary true stories
of pregnancy, birth and beyond. Funny one minute
and heart-breaking the next, Fiona McArthur
explores the joys, emotion and drama of childbirth
and the lasting effect it has on
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Daniel McIntosh
RRP $39.99
Outback Stations is a pictorial celebration
of Australia as seen through the eyes of
people working on the land. It was born from
a competition on the Station Photos page to
show a day in the life of an outback station.
The response was positively
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This is what happened the year Susannah
McFarlane met her other mother. In 1965, Robin,
unmarried and pregnant, gives birth and puts
her baby up for adoption. After nearly fifty years
apart, a mother and daughter are reunited. But the
path to a relationship is not smooth. The fragile
relationships stumble and fall under the weight of
years of repressed anger, hurt and loss.
HOW I MET YOUR FATHER
Sarah Marquis
RRP $29.99
OUTBACK STATIONS
Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of
Ashes and Rivers That Run to the Sea is a fearless
account of being a young woman caught between
two worlds. An old baptismal card falling out of
a book changed the course of 28-year-old Marie
Munkara’s life forever. Until that moment she had
no idea of her true origins in Arnhem land.
The subject of two extremely popular Australian
Stories, the 2011 NSW Young Australian of the
Year, Khmer speaker and co-director of the
Cambodian Children’s Trust, Tara Winkler is
inspirational. With rich and raw emotion, Tara tells
her personal story and the incredible highs and
lows of her life in Cambodia.
SCATTERED PEARLS
Sohila Zanjani
David Brewster
RRP $32.99
Spanning more than a hundred years, Scattered Pearls
tells the true stories of Sohila, her mother and her
grandmother, and the injustice and abuse meted out
by the men in their lives. It is a story
of cultural misogyny in both Iran and
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Australia, and of an ongoing search for
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