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Field Guide to the Seashores of South-Eastern Australia
The types of plants and animals that live on seashores in temperate regions are similar around the globe, but many of the individual species in south-eastern Australia are found only...
The Sirens
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward Sisters separated by centuries. Voices that can't be drowned out. 'Beautiful and magnificent' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE 'A profoundly moving and...
Bees of Australia: A Photographic Guide
Bees are the darlings of the insect world. It is a great joy to see these tenaciousinsects hard at work, peacefully buzzing from flower to flower on warm andsunny days....
All the Broken Soldiers: Private Kennedy's War
To the Australian Army, Private Lawrence Nicholas Kennedy was NX21854, a soldier who served for 1907 days with the 2/4th Australian Army Field Ambulance in Australia, the Middle East, the...
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia - 8th Edition
OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD The most comprehensive one-volume book of identification that shows all Australian bird species, perfect for birders of all levels of expertise. Since its first...
White Ash Ridge: 'A rising star of Australian crime fiction' SUNDAY
A REMOTE HOTEL. FIVE GUESTS. ONE MURDER. A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES 'S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS During...
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966
Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953,...
A Town Like Alice: (Vintage Classics Shute Series)
'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable' John Ezard, Guardian 'Probably more...
Wildlife of the Box-Ironbark Country
Victoria's Box-Ironbark region is one of the most important areas of animal diversity and significance in southern Australia. The forests and woodlands of this region provide critical habitat for a...
The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"
"Outback noir has a new star" Mark Sanderson, The TimesWith DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn...
Plant Names: A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature
Author: Roger Spencer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Plant Names is an invaluable guide to the use of scientific, commercial and common names for plants and the conventions for...
I Heart Koalas
Author: Lizzie Preston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Fall in love with colouring koalas in this new addition to our I Heart Colouring series. Packed full of...
The Ancients: Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania
In wild Tasmania there are trees whose direct ancestors lived with dinosaurs. Many of those alive today are thousands of years old, and some have been growing for ten millennia...
Sydney Cocktails: An Elegant Collection of Over 100 Recipes Inspired by the Land Down Under
Cider Mill Press is an independent publisher of high-quality cookbooks, elegant wine and spirits projects, humorous parodies, classic children's books, and more. We're proud to publish many celebrated bestselling titles,...
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
The award-winning bestseller that put Australian birds on the world map - nature and science writing at their best. Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds...
The Anti-Racism Kit: A Guide for High School Students
Anti-Racism Kit is the essential, comprehensive first guide to dismantling racism, created especially for Australian high school students. Written by two bright young Australian thinkers, the Anti-Racism Kit is a...
The Lost Recipes
' A glorious endeavour ' Nigella Lawson Over 90 rediscovered and revived Australian classics - thrifty, no-waste recipes from a time that honoured seasonal, locally grown ingredients and truly understood...
A Guide to Crickets of Australia
Cricket song is a sound of the Australian bush. Even in cities, the rasping calls signify Australia's remarkable cricket biodiversity. Crickets are notable for a variety of reasons. When their...
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins
First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled...
We Of The Never-Never
A special Vintage Classics edition of the beloved Australian bestseller In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to...
The Australian Ugliness
Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In...
Love & Pain: The epic times and crooked lines of life inside and
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 The powerful, untold story of two of the three members of iconic Australian band Silverchair. It all began in...
No Country for Girls: The most original, high-octane thriller of the
GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR. 'It's not exactly how I imagined the week starting. An accessory to murder. On the run in the victim's vehicle ....
The Heirloom: An immersive dual time novel of inheritance and secrets
'A fabulous family legacy tale' Peterborough Telegraph A surprise inheritance. A hidden past. Brisbane, 2024 Barista and budding artist Mia Curtis is shocked to receive a package all the way...
The Young Widows
'If you love Liane Moriarty and Shari Lapena, you'll love this twisty psychological thriller' Pick Me Up Magazine An addictive thriller that will keep you guessing until the last page,...
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and its ways of life. 'Marvellous Melbourne' symbolises the achievements of Australian urbanisation...
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Sightlines: Patterns + Palettes of Australian Landscapes
Australia and the Australian landscape conjure up images of golden sand beaches with blue water and white-tipped waves, red, rocky expanses punctuated with the ghostly trunks of gum trees, blue-green...
The Battle of Long Tan
A compelling account of Australia's bloodiest and most significant battle of the Vietnam War, in time for the battle's 50th anniversary, by critically-acclaimed war writer David Cameron. On the afternoon...
Walks, Tracks and Trails of Queensland's Tropics
Queensland's Tropics provide numerous environments for enjoyable walking: from lush rainforests, cloud-shrouded mountains and extinct volcanoes, to drier savanna woodlands and magnificent beaches on the coast and Great Barrier Reef...
The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests: Pollination Ecology and
The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests provides a comprehensive introduction to the pollination ecology, evolution and conservation of Australian rainforest plants, with particular emphasis on subtropical rainforests and their associated pollinators....
Places We Swim California: A Guide to the Best Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls, Beaches, Gorges, and Hot Springs
Places We Swim California is a travel guide that explores California's wilderness through swimming, documenting the state's best beaches, hot springs, rivers, lakes, waterfalls and canyons. This beautiful book is...
Favourite Australian Plants: 500 popular natives for your garden
Australia's favourite gardening expert has selected the best native plants for every part of the country and soil type, from temperate coastal regions to areas with frost, and the tropical...
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...
The Weed Forager's Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in
An astonishing number of the plants we call 'weeds' are either edible or medicinal, and have deep and sometimes bizarre connections to human history. But how do you distinguish a...
Bill and Horrie: Australia's greatest war horse and war dog
Bill the Bastard Bill the Bastard is a remarkable tale of the bond between a determined trooper and his stoic but cantankerous mount during the Light Horse campaigns against the...
Griffith Wars: The powerful true story of Donald Mackay's murder and the town that stood up to the Mafia
'Donald Mackay was not just an innocent victim tragically struck down by a criminal act. He was a casualty of the actual fight against organised crime ... killed on active...
An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion,
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers,...
Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Reptiles and Frogs: Fully revised edition
An indispensable guide to Australia's fascinating reptiles and frogs, packed with information about their behaviour, development, food and habitat. Each entry fully describes the species and its way of life....
The Boomers: A biography
From heartbreak to triumph: how our national basketball team went from misfits to superstars The Boomers' Olympic triumph in Tokyo was possibly the most celebrated bronze medal in Australian sporting...
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell
In the Trenches of Hell. The story of the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers -...
The Jam Maker: The must-read new Tasmanian historical fiction for 2025
Jam is sweet but it can also burn. Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to...
The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality
Winner of The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 1998 Shortlisted for Best Australian History Book in the NSW Premier's History Awards 1998 In 1920, 26 men and women...
Habitat: A practical guide to creating a wildlife-friendly Australian garden
In a world where suburban nature is declining and diversity is shrinking, Habitat is a practical guide for those of us who want to encourage insects, reptiles, frogs, birds and...
Borneo 1945: The Last Major Allied Campaign in the South-West Pacific
A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. A week after Pearl Harbor in December...
No Front Line: Australia's special forces at war in Afghanistan
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years...
The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop: The definitive inside story of Neddy Smith and Roger Rogerson, partners in crime
'Stunning revelations, shocking crimes and a cracking read: I thought I knew a lot about these two infamous villains, but what I learned from Mercer's book surprised even me.' Kate...
Meet... Ned Kelly
The perfect book for kids learning about Ned Kelly and his gang. The perfect book for kids learning about Ned Kelly and his gang. Ned Kelly was a notorious bushranger....