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A Few Drops Short of a Pint
$15.00 (GST-inc)Chris Dowding lived a quiet, solitary life as an engineer in Brisbane that only began to change when he met his future wife Kerryn who, after their wedding, persuaded Chris to move to Ireland—to a new beginning.
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Along My Way
$16.00 (GST-inc)In this compelling book, Harold Hunt charts his life from his childhood during the Great Depression to the present. One of eight children raised by a single Mum in New South Wales bush towns, with only a primary school education, he forged a career as a stockman and shearer, but then graduated as a drunk.
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Blood and Guts
$30.00 (GST-inc)Gloria Burley’s book is a compelling view of our hospital system. A nurse with experience in urban and Outback hospitals, Gloria tells it as she saw it: the dedication of medical professionals doing their best for their patients but also the limitations of people who are after all only human.
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Dark Sky Dreamings: an Inland Skywriters Anthology
$16.01 (GST-inc)When you look up at a midnight sky, what do you see—mottled stars and a full Moon trying hard to compete with the street lamps for your attention? You might be situated in a city, or its sprawling suburbs, where the ever-present urban glow tends to keep your gaze horizontal, missing out on the beckoning mysteries of the Universe.
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Imagining Peace
$13.00 (GST-inc)Sometimes playful but always passionate, Imagining Peace offers a glimpse into the private world of a quirky systems reformer. The great-granddaughter of a social activist, Dawn Joyce invites us along as she challenges peace and justice issues at the personal, community and global level. We are introduced to a network of reformers who offer creative alternatives to a world in crisis.
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Memories of Dr Shinichi Suzuki: Son of His Environment
$16.00 (GST-inc)Suzuki may be a name renowned for automobiles, but this book introduces us to a very different Suzuki – the Suzuki who was a world leader in the teaching of music.
Dr Shinichi Suzuki, creator of “The Suzuki Method”, is well remembered for his extraordinary warmth, care, and sense of humour.
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My Planets: a fictive memoir
$15.00 (GST-inc)Winner, 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Digital Narrative.
Imagine this. You’re 50 years old. An only child, from a Jewish family. The people you thought of as your mother and father are dead.
Then, in the middle of the night you get a phone call from the other side of the planet telling you they’ve found your mother. Alive. Your real mother. Suddenly, you become the oldest of seven across two families. All your assumptions about yourself are swept away.
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No One’s Child
$30.11 (GST-inc)Following the success of her intriguing memoir set in Singapore and Malaya, The Girl with the Cardboard Port, Judith McNeil returns to her homeland Australia in No One’s Child.
This is the remarkable story of her childhood as a ‘railway brat’, growing up along the rail tracks in small towns while her father worked on the lines.
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Put the Billy On
$30.00 (GST-inc)Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-Fiction Award.
This memoir is a nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s. Mixed with undertones of delightful humour and fading innocence. Audio version performed by Anne Stevenson.
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Sawdust
$15.00 (GST-inc)Deborah Kay teams up with award-winning social issues journalist Barry Levy to provide a courageous and compassionate account of what happened to her, and how she avoided being warped by her experiences, allowing, as she puts it, pockets of sunlight to shine through her.
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Shadows in Paradise
$14.99 (GST-inc)An insightful account of a woman’s perseverance through adoption secrecy and red tape, Shadows in Paradise traces Carolann Dowding’s search for her biological family. Illuminated by compassion, tragedy and gratitude which span the generations, Shadows in Paradise reveals the breadth of our need for truth and connection.
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The Art of Disappearing
$16.00 (GST-inc)In this moving, literate memoir, Dr Elisabeth Hanscombe retraces and reflects on her experiences as a witness to and victim of sexual abuse by her father
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The Dark Cracks of Kemang
$16.00 (GST-inc)That old childhood saying ‘pick what you want from the tree of life’ simply not working anymore? Becoming a foreigner in Indonesia might be as good a stab at something new and rewarding, as anything…
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The Girl with the Cardboard Port
$33.00 (GST-inc)This shocking tale of one young woman’s fight for survival and connection is not for the faint of heart.
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The Screaming Middle: a memoir in verse of a very strange year
$13.00 (GST-inc)The Screaming Middle is a memoir of a very strange year, the year of turning 50 for one woman who forgot to have a party. This confessional verse novel takes you on road trips, into psych wards, into the chambers of marriage and through epic failures, brilliant ideas and back to kingdoms of chaos and castles of hilarity.
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The Sugar Doctor
$16.00 (GST-inc)In 1838, Dr Alexander Skinner leaves Scotland for Australia to make his fortune. He had met Scots whose families owned sugar plantations in the West Indies and been told that Australia’s climate might be equally suitable for growing sugar. Dr Skinner is intrigued by the prospect of sugar production and the potential growth of a global industry. A restless, tenacious, often relentless character, Dr Skinner pushes himself and his family towards his single-minded goal of success in an untamed country.
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The Taste of Apple
$11.99 (GST-inc)Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2010
Pedro Jones is lost. Abandoned by his father and forced into commission housing with his Filipino immigrant mother, the future seems bleak.
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To Hang Out The Washing
$17.00 (GST-inc)To Hang Out the Washing is a remarkable account about World War II by a man whose memories are as vivid today as they were authentically lived more than seventy-five years ago.
The young soldier’s journey begins in Birmingham UK in 1940 during the Battle of Britain and concludes in Germany in 1945.
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Tripping with Nathan: A Different Love Story
$16.00 (GST-inc)Born with cerebral palsy, Nathan spent his life in a wheelchair, requiring 24/7 care. He and his parents were up against government inertia and entrenched community attitudes that stigmatise the disabled rather than seeing their potential to live life to its fullest. Nevertheless, Nathan and his parents saw the Rolling Stones, visited orangutans in Borneo, travelled to Costa Rica, the USA and Fiji, and went skiing in Falls Creek. He was even given a starring role in the Commonwealth Games as one of the opening ceremony dancers.
This is a story of resilience and determination, with lessons that will help us all understand that people with disabilities have an inalienable right to contribute in the community in which they live.
