Biography & Memoir History Australiana
The Boss and His Family: The Story of the Moonlight Nolans by Chris Nolan is a 1991 Australian memoir that traces one mining clan through the boom and bust of the historic Berringa goldfields. Vintage paperback, 145 pages, packed with black-and-white photographs that bring the era and the close-knit Moonlight Nolans to life.
Nolan blends family history with broader cultural studies, offering young-adult and adult readers an engaging window on true Australian working-class life. The result is a compact biography that doubles as a slice of local history, perfect for anyone curious about outback resilience and the people who lived it.
This used copy shows only light cover scuffing and a touch of yellow to the first page; otherwise the pages are clean, unmarked, and tightly bound. No writing, dog-ears, or tears, and it comes from a smoke-free home. A tidy addition to any collection of Australiana, memoir, or family-history titles.