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Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-writer, and
The gripping story of Australia's first female crime writer and her career-criminal son When Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was determined to reinvent...
Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious
A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early Melbourne Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until...
Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today
A curated collection of essays that shaped Australia's culture and society Since the 1940s, Meanjin essays have set the national cultural agenda. Arthur Phillips' idea of 'cultural cringe' has become...
The Story of Australia's People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient
Compelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia is the first instalment of an ambitious two-part work, and the culmination of...
The Story of Australia's People Vol. II: The Rise and Rise of a New
The much-anticipated second instalment of Geoffrey Blainey's history of Australia's people - his most ambitious work to date - that completes Australia's story from the Gold Rush to the present...
Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on The Aboriginals
A striking and compelling book reclaiming history by a renowned Indigenous visual artist. In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences,...
The Birth Of Sydney
The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's brilliant anthology reveals Sydney's strange and secret life from its unruly...
1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet
An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this....
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 Fatal Shore
'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...
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 Commonwealth Of Thieves
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally. A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement...
Terra Australis
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim...
The Jerilderie Letter
I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has...
The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills
Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. 'Without some change,' he...
Australians (volume 3): Flappers to Vietnam
'A loving history of the Australian people' - Sydney Morning Herald '...displays historical literacy, and plenty of humanity, empathy and compassion, all qualities rare in our public culture to be...
The Battle of the Generals: MacArthur, Blamey and the defence of Australia in World War II
'Roland Perry shows the true picture . . . enjoyable, clearly argued, comprehensive, and highly readable.' - Michael McKernan, Australian Book Review 11 March 1942: The Japanese have stormed the...
Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia
'Aussies love a good story and entertainer Jim Haynes has been telling them for decades' - Courier-Mail In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia , our master storyteller Jim...
The Diggers of Kapyong: The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War
'In the only war in which Australian soldiers ever faced off against the might of Mao, this is a revealing and spellbinding account of an extraordinary victory.' - Peter FitzSimons...
Cloud Land: The dramatic story of Australia's extraordinary rainforest people and country
Shortlisted for The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award 2023 Wreathed in morning mist, the rainforest is a place where evolution and legend rule. Where the thunderbird...
Nabbing Ned Kelly: The extraordinary true story of the men who brought Australia's notorious outlaw to justice
Shortlisted for the 2023 Danger Awards He lurched through the gun smoke, his head encased in an iron helmet, and started shooting. To the weary police in the cordon around...
1942: the year the war came to Australia: The bombing of Darwin and the attack on Sydney by the Japanese
'Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account deserves to be widely read.' Sun Herald on An Awkward Truth 'About as good as any yarn can get . . . a great...
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800
Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix -happy south land-a prize left for them by God. For its original inhabitants, their Country was home and life,...
Australian Architecture: A history
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...
The Last Navigator: From the Queensland bush to Bomber Command and Pathfinders . . . a true story of courage and survival against the odds
'A wonderful book that tells a remarkable and heroic story.' AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR ANGUS HOUSTON AK, AFC (RET'D) The choking, chest-tightening feeling of being trapped in a burning Lancaster,...
The Mighty 747: Australia's Queen of the Skies
'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967 From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew millions of people to...
RAAF Black Cats: The secret history of the covert Catalina mine-laying operations to cripple Japan's war machine
In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missing in action. No details were ever given about the incident that took his...
Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45
Australia was born with its eyes wide open. Although politicians spoke publicly of loyalty to Britain and the empire, in secret they immediately set about protecting Australia's interests from the...
Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II
Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australia's war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas' exemplary contribution...
Convict Colony: The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds
The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations...
Aboriginal Australians: A history since 1788
'The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in Richard Broome's typical lucid and imaginative style. This is an important work of great scholarship, passion and imagination.'...
The Original Australians: The story of the Aboriginal People
The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Indigenous history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime to the...
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975
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...
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963
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...
Warrior: A legendary leader's dramatic life and violent death on the colonial frontier
Winner of the 2015 Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance Winner of the 2016 Magarey Medal for Biography 'Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our...
Tasmania's Convicts: How felons built a free society
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells...
First Footprints: The Epic Story of the First Australians
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic...
The Colony: A history of early Sydney
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...
Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990
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The Making of Australia: A Concise History
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Sweetland Project: Remembering Gallipoli in the Shire of Nunawading
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Budgerigar
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Doorways: Year of the Cumberdeen Diaries
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Alan Marshall's Battlers (SIGNED)
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Author: Alan Marshall; Compiled by Gwen HardistyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hyland House, 1983, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book is a compilation of stories...
The Ties That Bind: A History of Sport at the University of Melbourne
$40.00 AUD
Author: June E. SenyardBinding: HardbackPublished: Walla Walla Press, 2004Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book chronicles the rich history of sport at the University of Melbourne,...
The Enduring Remnant; The First 150 Years of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, 1841-1991 (SIGNED by both)
$30.00 AUD
Author: Aron, Joseph; Arndt, JudyBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1992Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThis book chronicles the history of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation over its first 150...
Beltana - Six Miles
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Author: Elsie Lecky PayneBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby Limited, 1974, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsBeltana - Six Miles is a detailed exploration of the region surrounding Beltana,...
Australian Criminal Justice: Fourth Edition
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Author: Mark Findlay, Stephen Odgers, Stanley YeoBinding: SoftbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 2010Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the Australian criminal justice...