Autobiography & Memoir
Other People's Country
Maureen Helen
ISBN: 0733333716
When Maureen Helen reached her late fifties and the six children she had raised alone were grown, she decided she wanted to do something different. Spurred on by an adventure in Thailand, she made the momentous decision to use her rusty skills to become a RAN: a remote area nurse, in an isolated Aboriginal settlement in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Faced with the terrible health problems of the community, inadequate equipment and a growing sense that she doesn't belong, Maureen is forced to manage her own crisis of confidence as well as the harshness and hostility of her environment. Other People's Country is an elegantly written examination of the unexpected consequences of one woman's wish to do good. In any part of Australia, a siege by an armed gunman would have made headlines across the nation. A trauma team would have moved in to counsel everyone. Employers would have visited the scene. But the outside world never hears about Jigalong’s night of terror. Unsentimental and compelling, Other People’s Country offers penetrating insights into the cultural clash between Aboriginal and white Australia, as well as taking a cool look at the author's own moral compass when faced with a demanding and hostile environment. Published by ABC Books
Champions by Chance and by Choice
Memoirs of Ken Waters - Dennis Lillee's first Coach
ISBN 0-646-46374-8
Champions by Chance and by Choice is the best cricket read this summer. As the first coach of Dennis Lillee the author traces his outstanding career. With a forward by Dennis Lillee.
Now selling for $14 plus postage. Half the proceeds are being donated to Telethon. To order contact K & C Waters at 8 Burran Court, Maida Vale 6057 or phone 94546926 or email kandkwat@bigpond.com
The Voice of the Great South
Eoin Cameron
ISBN: 1 92073 195
Following on from the hugely popular Rolling Into the World, this is the second installment of ABC Radio personality Eoin Cameron's memoirs. Again packed with highs, lows and hilarious adventures, the book begins with him as a mishap-prone 16-year-old on a farm in Albany, traces his early life in radio in the Southwest and the ABC in Perth, and ends with his entry into federal parliament in 1993.
A Tree Without Roots
Nic Papalia
ISBN: 978 1 875801
A Tree Without Roots is the autobiography of a man of Italian background who grew up in an Australian farming community. As a young adult he broke free from family and small-town restrictions and prejudices and traveled extensively. Despite being aware of his homosexuality he married and fathered two children before finding the courage to be true to himself. Some of the cast of memorable characters we meet in these pages are people with cerebral palsy whose lives the author has shared with great tenderness and humanity as a professional carer. Here is a life, recounted with honesty and courage that is both ordinary and extraordinary. It is continually surprising, often moving and never dull. 25% of all sales are donated to the Western Australian AIDS Council.
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