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BIOGRAPHY
& True stories
Paul Kelly
Stuart Coupe
RRP $35.00
Taking us from Paul
Kelly’s family life
as the sixth of nine
children in Adelaide,
Stuart Coupe, with
Paul’s blessing and
access to friends,
family and band
mates, shows us the evolution from a young
man to an Australian music icon.
Due
sept
15
Happy (and
other
ridiculous
aspirations)
Turia Pitt
RRP $34.99
Inspirational Australian Turia Pitt dives into
the idea of happiness, interviewing athletes,
comedians, scientists and world experts to
explore how everything from money to our
relationships has an impact on how happy we
can be.
Friday on My
Mind
Jeff Apter
RRP $29.99
Pop star, mentor and
icon, George Young
was one of the most
important figures in
Australian pop music
history. In Friday on
My Mind, Jeff Apter
reveals the little-known facts that helped
create a music empire.
Bush School
Peter O’Brien
RRP $29.99
In 1960, Peter O'Brien
started work as the
only teacher at a bush
school in Weabonga.
Bush School is the
charming story of the
struggles of a young
man with his first
teaching assignment in a village at the back
of beyond.
How I Clawed
My Way to the
Middle
John Wood
RRP $34.99
John Wood’s memoir,
How I Clawed My Way
to the Middle, is full
of humility, warmth
and humour, it tells
of the luminous
personalities John encountered along the way,
and the perilous reality of life as a professional
actor in Australia.
Due
sept
2
Sam Bloom:
heartache
and Birdsong
Samantha
Bloom, Cameron
Bloom, Bradley
Trevor Greive
RRP $32.99
Sam's captivating true story – written by
close friend, author Bradley Trevor Greive,and
featuring extraordinary photographs taken by
Sam's husband, Cameron Bloom – is humbling,
heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure.
One Last Lunch
Erica Heller
RRP $39.99
In this heart-warming
collection edited
by Joseph Heller's
daughter, dozens of
contributors imagine
one last lunch with
someone they
cherished.
Due
sept
8
Just Ignore Him
Alan Davies
RRP $32.99
In this memoir,
comedian and actor
Alan Davies recalls his
boyhood with insight
and humour. Shifting between his 1970s
upbringing and his life today, Davies moves
from innocence to experience to the clarity of
hindsight, always with a keen sense of
the absurd.
The Last
Lighthouse
Keeper
John Cook,
Jon Bauer
RRP $32.99
This is a beautiful
memoir from
John Cook, one
of Tasmania's last
kerosene lighthouse
keepers. The Last Lighthouse Keeper is a story
about madness and wilderness, shining a light
onto the vicissitudes of love and nature.
More Great
Australian
Outback Police
Stories
Bill 'Swampy'
Marsh
RRP $32.99
This memorable
and eye-opening
collection of real-life
accounts from cops
on the frontline in the heart of Australia is by
turns inspiring, poignant, heartbreaking
and hilarious.
Due
sept
15
Vida: A Woman
for Our Time
Jacqueline Kent
RRP $34.99
Vida Goldstein was an
advocate for women’s
rights, a campaigner for peace, fought for
the distribution of wealth, and a trail-blazer
who provided leadership and inspiration to
innumerable people.
Enid
Robert
Wainwright
RRP $32.99
In early twentiethcentury
society,
when women were
expected to be demure
and obedient, the
granddaughter of
wine pioneer Henry
Lindeman waltzed through life to the beat
of her own drum. Robert Wainwright tells
her story.
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