MRRW Festival Author's Books
There is nothing the Margaret River BookShop crew loves more than being the official bookseller for the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival. We love connecting readers with their favourite authors, discover new voices and celebrate the power of storytelling. You will find our festival bookshop in the foyer of the HEART from Friday 17th May – 19th May Sunday
Nedingar: Ancestors by Isobel Bevis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Authors
This lyrical, dual language picture book from two debut First Nations creators celebrates the beauty of Country and family.'Please Mum, I want to meet my ancestors, I want to learn from them so I know who I am.'Inspired by traditional Indigenous teachings, every family will relate to this beautiful bili ...Show more
Lies My Mirror Told Me: A Frank, Funny, Fearless Memoir by Wendy Harmer
$34.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Entertainer and national treasure Wendy Harmer tells all in her frank, fearless and funny memoir, Lies My Mirror Told Me. 'I've always believed where there's a chance, you have to take it . . . or invent it.' Wendy Harmer has had an extraordinary life. From being born with a severe facial deformity, t ...Show more
Eta Draconis by Brendan Ritchie
$32.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Elora is leaving her hometown for university. Leaving behind friends, family, and safety to follow her dream of studying theatre while she still has the chance.Together, Elora and her older sister, Vivienne, set out by road for the city and the upcoming semester. The relationship between them is fractur ...Show more
Norn and Kaarda by Alton Walley
$15.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Authors
Norn and Kaarda is a timeless story about community, power, equality and respect based on a Dreamtime Story of the Nyoongar People. Norn and Kaarda, by Alton Walley with illustrations by John Walley, tells the story of a Kaarda, a ferocious goanna that rules over the land leaving all animals in fear of ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Tie-in): the internationally bestselling novel, now a Stan series by Heather Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: SPO
This internationally bestselling novel is now a six-part drama series streaming on Stan in 2024, starring Harvey Keitel. The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport of me ...Show more
The Spectacular Spencer Gray by Deb Fitzpatrick
$14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Authors | Series: Spencer Gray
Spencer Gray is just an ordinary kid, but he manages to get in to some pretty extraordinary situations. Playing soccer at school with his mates he accidentally uncovers a sinister operation and rescues a super-endangered marsupial, but in the process he risks becoming super-endangered himself. A page-tu ...Show more
Yonga and Waitch by Alton Walley
$15.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Authors
Yonga the Kangaroo and Waitch the Emu have been good friends for a very long time. But Waitch has slowly started to grow envious of Yonga’s beautiful snowy white coat. On a sweltering hot day Wiatch comes up with a devious plan to get Yonga’s coat all for itself! Yonga and Waitch, based on a Dreamtime ...Show more
90 Packets of Instant Noodles by Deb Fitzpatrick
$17.95 AUD
Category: Childrens Authors
Australians eat 150 million packets of instant noodles every year - that's about 7 packets each. But Joel is a teenager who goes to extremes, and 90 packets may not be enough.Joel and Craggs are in it together. They drink booze together, they flirt with petty theft together and, when Craggs turn violent ...Show more
Yeah, Nah!: A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are by William McInnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
Join bestselling Australian storyteller William McInnes as he reflects on Australia's way of life and gives us his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. Whether we are bunging it on or behaving like a drongo, Australians have a turn of phrase for every situation that helps us. Our lin ...Show more
Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books
From award-winning journalist Julia Baird, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Phosphorescence, comes Bright Shining, a luminously beautiful, deeply insightful and most timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace. Grace is both mysterious and hard to defin ...Show more
The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
$22.99 AUD
Category: MRRW Festival Author's Books | Series: Don Tillman
The Rosie Result is the triumphant final instalment of the internationally bestselling series that began with The Rosie Project. ------ Don Tillman - scientist, husband, father, and world's greatest problem-solver - met his wife Rosie by inventing The Wife Project. But ten years on from marrying 'the ...Show more