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maggie mackellar

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  • When It Rains

    The heart-wrenching but triumphant story of rebuilding a life and a family.'My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss ... One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five years in eight weeks ... My other story marks me as different. It is more silent and more savage, it is not pure and no one knows how to approach it. Somewhere I lost my husband. ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • How to Get There

    After Maggie Mackellar's acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of settling there.In 2011 Maggie Mackellar moved from her family’s farm in Central West New South Wales to the east coast of Tasmania with her children and assorted menagerie to live with a farmer.Her story takes as its ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Core Of My Heart, My Country

    When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past.In this passionate book Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, ... Read more

    $13.71 USD

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    Poignant and moving memoir of Elizabeth Ward, known to one and all as Biff, who grew up in the 1950s in a household that tiptoed around her mother's demons and her father's fame.There are secrets in this family. Before Biff and her younger brother, Mark, there was baby Alison, who drowned in her bath because, it was said, her mother was distracted. Biff too, lives in fear of her mother's ... Read more

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    A mother's greatest fear. A wife's worst nightmare. What would you do?When two technology-related disasters hit within days of each other, Paula knows her comfortable suburban life has been irrevocably blown apart. One involves the public shaming of her teenage daughter, the other is a discovery about her husband that shocks her to her core. With her world unravelling around her, Paula does the ... Read more

    $8.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love in the Outback

    by Deb Hunt ...
    The true story of an unlikely romance in the Australian outback.At forty-nine, Deb Hunt stopped dating men. It was just too painful. The men she loved didn't love her back. When she found herself stalking her last boyfriend, who'd become engaged to another woman, Deb knew it was time to make changes.From her home in the UK, she applied for a job in Australia - a PR assistant with the Royal Flying ... Read more

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  • Gone Fishing

    by Susan Duncan ...
    Bestselling Australian author Susan Duncan is famous for making a sea change from a 25-year career in media, which included being editor of two of Australia's top women's magazines, to living in her own patch of paradise in Pittwater. Gone Fishing is Susan's latest novel and is set in tranquil Cook's Basin.For bargeman Sam Scully, life in Cook’s Basin is nothing short of paradise. A wonderland of ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Return to Moondilla

    by Tony Parsons ...
    When Greg Baxter returns to his childhood home to finish what he hopes will be a bestselling novel, he didn't count on his plans being waylaid by an investigation into a local drug syndicate, an attempt on his life, and little touch of romance.Return to Moondilla tells the story of former journalist, Greg Baxter, who's recently returned to the Moondilla area he grew up in to finish writing what he ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stillways: A Memoir

    by Steve Bisley ...
    A raw, rough, poetic, funny, intensely moving and quite, quite beautiful memoir about a boy from the bush, growing up in Australian in the sixties.From one of Australia's favourite actors comes a classic memoir of an Australian childhood in the sixties.Young Steve was a larrikin, happy-go-lucky, resilient kid, coming of age in a simpler time. Growing up on a farm cut from virgin scrub at the end ... Read more

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  • Where the River Ends

    A story of enduring love and remarkable courage in the outback. Early morning was the time Roxy liked most of all. There was a calmness, a stillness about the river, the water stretching away glass-like, bathed in a thin mist. Paddles foamed the surface and with each thrust she imagined herself being drawn closer to the unknown... Roxy: Beautiful, cultured and talented, she forsakes a promising ... Read more

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  • The Good Life

    by Hugh Mackay ...
    "No one can promise you that a life lived for others will bring you a deep sense of satisfaction, but it's certain that nothing else will."Hugh Mackay has spent his entire working life asking Australians about their values, motivations, ambitions, hopes and fears. Now, in The Good Life, he addresses the ultimate question: What makes a life worth living?His conclusion is provocative. The good life ... Read more

    $5.79 USD

  • The Great Plains

    Nicole Alexander, the 'heart of Australian storytelling', takes us on a captivating journey from the American Wild West to the wilds of outback Queensland, from the Civil War to the Great Depression, in an epic novel tracing one powerful but divided family.It is Dallas 1886, and the Wade Family is going from strength to strength: from a thriving newspaper and retail business in Texas to a ... Read more

    $14.79 USD