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From the director of the wildly popular Bush Mechanics and Black As - a can-do guide for your next outback adventure filled with practical advice, ripper yarns and road-trip tips....

From First Nations gunyahs and First Fleet huts to 21st century eco-pavilions and skyscrapers, Davina Jackson surveys the evolution of architecture in Australia. Dr Jackson explores how early colonial building...

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...

On the evening of 26 August 2009, the last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter on Christmas Island. Scientists, desperate about its conservation, set up a maze of netting...

An exciting addition to the narrative non-fiction series Nature Storybooks, about an Eastern Quoll. The blue-black sky is painted with glistening stars. Quoll has woken. It's playtime here in the...

The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions...

'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...

'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...

WINNER: 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards Picture Book of the Year (Ages 0-6) WINNER: 2022 Educational Publishing Awards Australia Primary Educational Picture Book WINNER: 2022 Karajia Award for Children's Literature...

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...

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,...

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In a handy portable format, Native Plants of the Sydney Region is the ideal companion for anyone who wants to put names to the plants they see in the bush....

Geelong's Changing Landscape offers an insightful investigation of the ecological history of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula region. Commencing with the penetrating perspectives of Wadawurrung Elders, chapters explore colonisation and...

Winner of the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 'Grace Karskens writes with the passion and insight of a novelist, and the accuracy of a historian. To read it...

'Big-hearted, genuine, bubbly - a joyful celebration of life and community.' Tessa Kiros The easiest and best gatherings are when everyone pitches in. It's sanity-saving for the host, not to...

The story of Australia's first elected Labor Prime Minister, from award-winning historian David Day Prime Minister Andrew Fisher was one of Australia's great nation-builders, yet his story is largely unknown....

Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner...

Australia is known for its spectacular and diverse natural environment, from sweeping landscapes to unique flora and fauna. It is a place that invokes wonder and demands protection in equal...

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. This is the seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded:...

In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton shows that China's growth model is now reaching its limit, and the world's most populous economy faces a challenging transition. In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton...

Diesel: The Greg Williams Story is a biography detailing the career of Australian rules footballer Greg "Diesel" Williams, covering his journey from being rejected by Carlton to becoming a dual...

Travel along Melbourne's twisting Yarra river in a glorious celebration of indigenous culture and Australia's unique flora and fauna. Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly and Aboriginal Elder of the Wurundjeri people...

'Unputdownable . . . spookily familiar, funny, and darkly captivating. I loved it' Sally Hepworth Question: How long does it take to tear someone's life apart? Answer: Sometimes just one...

A manifesto about what's wrong with Australia's mental health system and a guidebook for how to treat it, by a neurotic shrink who lives it every day. Psychiatrist Dr Mark...

By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests...

Mayflies are one of the world's most diverse, abundant and important aquatic insects. Famous for their brief adult life spans, mayflies play a key role in the ecology of aquatic...

Pounds and Pedigrees: The Upper Class in Victoria 1850–80 by Paul De Serville is a sweeping history of public and private life in Melbourne's establishment during the mid-to-late nineteenth century....

A tender, heartwarming novel of unlikely friendships and second chances, perfect for fans of Monica McInerney and Maeve Binchy. Vivian Molloy hardly expected to retire early from teaching, but for...

The outback begins somewhere beyond - beyond the black stump, backo' Bourke or just a bit further on...Yet the outback is the very heart of Australia, an unforgettable landscape. It...

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A book about the permanent collection at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and their Settlement in Australia.

Imagine stepping into a packed Australian pub in the mid-1970s and the late 1980s - the heyday of the pub-rock music scene - where the air was thick with the...

In a journey that took five years to complete, property magnate Richard Buxton circumnavigated Australia by air and sea in an effort to raise public awareness and funds for research...

On the streets, under the ground and on the information superhighway, radicals and rebels have made this town their own. The acclaimed Radical Melbourne revealed the hidden history of the...

'Why don't you check out Papunya? It's the sniffing capital of Australia, it's a Bermuda triangle for taxpayer funds. Nobody in the NT government gives a rats. The council just...

In this collection of four vibrant books, Sally Morgan celebrates Australian animals and the habitats in which they live. From dingos to galahs, children can watch, learn, listen and count...

Droughts have lurked behind Australia's major nation-shaping moments from European settlement at Port Jackson to Federation. They have caused catastrophic damage to Aboriginal, colonial and modern societies and, of course,...

A FULLY UPDATED EDITION WITH NEW RECIPES AND ENTRIES CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE COOKBOOK - OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD 'Anyone who cooks - or eats -...

WINNER: 2024 MARION ACT Book of the Year, Books for Older Readers WINNER: 2024 Readings Young Adult Prize S HORTLISTED: 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young...

"Outback noir has a new star" Mark Sanderson, The Times"A rising star of crime fiction" Joan Smith, Sunday Times"Delivers another larger-than-life, take-no-prisoners slice of outback noir. A truly original writer"...

_______________ 'A wildly funny account of his travels ... it actually is a book which makes you laugh out loud on almost every page' - Literary Review 'The most successful...

A history and critical appraisal of the tall office builging in Australia, emphasising their historical significance as part of the evolving story of Australian culture as it presents itself in...

It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth-century Australia, but it very nearly collapsed in the face of monumental obstacles. The year was 1870, and mail took six weeks...

Celebrating the people involved in the organization, the landscape they have flown over for 50 years and the spirit of the outback, this text by prize-winning author Robert McDonald and...

Set against the vast and timeless landscape of Western Australia, a mesmeric tale from the author of the award-winning bestseller The Light Between Oceans, which has sold five million copies...