Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Biography
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
This Is Where You Have to Go: A Heartbreaking and Powerful Story of a Mother’s Quest for Connection With Her Lost Son by Lynda Holden
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Biography
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced. Proud Dhunghutti woman, laywer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda Holden tells her own heartbreaking story and of her fight for justice. In 1970, Lynda was eighteen, unmarried and p ...Show more
Archie Roach - Tell Me Why - The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who he r ...Show more
Auntie Rita: The classic memoir of an Aboriginal woman’s love and determination by Rita Huggins, Jackie Huggins
$29.95 AUD
Category: First Nations Biography
Auntie Rita is a revised edition of the bestselling and award-winning memoir of Aboriginal woman Rita Huggins first published in 1994. Rita battled dispossession, poverty, personal tragedy and racism to create a rich meaningful life, lived out during the momentous changes of the 20th century. ‘Most peop ...Show more
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara by Ian White (Compiled by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara offers a unique perspective on the life and making of this Western Arnhem clever man or marrkidjbu.Born at the end of the 19th Century when the Western world had scarcely touched Arnhem Land, Paddy Compass Namadbara acted as a healer for his countrymen and ...Show more
God, the Devil and Me by Alf Taylor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties. At once darkly humorous and achingly tragic, God, The Devil and Me tells of the life and desperation of the young children forced ...Show more
Gulpilil by Derek Rielly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
It's been almost fifty years since a teenage David Gulpilil illuminated screens worldwide with his breakout role in Walkabout. It was the first time we'd seen an Aboriginal cast in a significant role and only four years after Holt's referendum to alter the constitution and give Aboriginal people citizen ...Show more
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Biography
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man by Frances Peters-Little
$45.00 AUD
Category: First Nations Biography
In this first biography of the man and his music, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man tells the incredible story of one of Australia’s most acclaimed Aboriginal pop and country music legends and icons, Jimmy Little. At just 16 years of age, Jimmy Little travelled to Sydney to make his radio debut on Austral ...Show more
Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by Ellen van Neerven
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Biography
Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning early on that sport can be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realise about sport’s troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality – and question what it means to play sport on stolen, s ...Show more
Tracker by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: STELLA WINNER 2018
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winni ...Show more
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. F ...Show more