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1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. An extraordinary narrative...
The Crying Years: Australia's Great War
Author: Peter Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 The Great War continues to fascinate us all. In this original approach, prize-winning historian Peter Stanley cleverly weaves his...
Borders Battlers
Author: Michael Sexton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 It's the 1986 tour of India, and Australian cricket is reeling from the loss of key players to retirement...
Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians
Author: Royce Kurmelovs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Australia's mining boom is...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
Animals of Australia
Author: Jo Parker Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Explore the Australian Outback to find koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles, and more! Did you know kangaroos can jump 10 feet high?...
Collins Australian School Dictionary
Author: Collins Dictionaries Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 960 Give yourself a head start! Collins School Dictionary is the perfect companion for all students aged 11-14. With a...
Sharks A History of Fear in Australia
Author: Callum Denness Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For as long as people have lived in Australia, the shark has loomed large in our fears. From the...
The Birth Of Melbourne
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts...
Never Lose Hope: The Story of Australia's First School
Author: Mark Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 John is a child convict, transported to New South Wales for stealing a shirt. Life is grim in the fledgling colony...
The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories
Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
The Fatal Shore
Author: Robert Hughes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 "An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler"...
Gallipoli
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
Author: Robyn Annear Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan...
Our Home, Our Heartbeat Book and Puzzle Set
Author: Adam Briggs Format: Novelty book Number of Pages: 32 From the number one best-selling Our Home, Our Heartbeat comes a stunning puzzle and paperback book set for kids to...
A Fortunate Life
Author: A B Facey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of...
Birds and Botanists
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Author: Trevor Pescott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A fascinating local field guide for Geelong, using records from the Geelong field naturalist club (1880-1932). Shedding light on the history of...
Boy Overboard
Author: Morris Gleitzman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A story of adventure, ball control and hope. Jamal and Bibi have a dream. To lead Australia to soccer...
Ned Kelly
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he...
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again. It is the driest, flattest,...
Bitter Wash Road (Rejacketed)
Author: Garry Disher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A gripping prequel to Garry Disher's Peace, the must-read Australian rural crime novel of 2019. 'Shots fired on Bitter...
Defeating Terror Behind the hunt for the Bali bombers
Author: David Craig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In 2002 Australia was rocked by the terrorist bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. Then,...
True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As...
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)
Author: Don Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us...
Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three
Author: Peter Temple Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 318 The third novel in the Jack Irish series won the 2000 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel, and...
The Making of Australia
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable...
An Anzac's Story
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Roy Kyle Format: Paperback...
An Aussie Year Twelve Months in the Life of Australian Kids
Author: Tania McCartney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Winner of the ACT Writing & Publishing Award for Best Children's Book and now in paperback. Meet Ned, Lily,...
Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second: the first cricket World Cup and an Ashes Series: LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
Author: Christian Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Exquisite.' - Gideon Haigh 'Magical, a head rush, a marvel.' - Rahul Battacharya 'Startlingly original.' - Matthew Engel In 1975 Patrick...
Araluen
Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless...
Beneath the Southern Cross
Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and...
How Good is Scott Morrison?
Author: Peter van Onselen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating...
The Undesirables: Inside Nauru
Author: Mark Isaacs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 When it comes to asylum-seekers on Nauru, we learn only what the government wants us to know. In the...
Illywhacker
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Peter Carey's brilliant, hilarious, Booker Prize-shortlisted Illywhacker is the novel that brought him to international intention. Herbert Badgery is...
Bliss
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes...
The Bush
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Blue Collar Frayed: Working Men in Tomorrow's Economy
Author: Jennifer Rayner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us,...
An Angel In Australia
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a haunting and evocative tale of murder and loss of innocence in...
A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics
Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Australian literature's strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist. It is the duty of a good child to...
A Long Way from Home
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is...
One Potoroo: A Story of Survival
Author: Penny Jaye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 When a bushfire destroys Potoroo's home, he becomes one of the last surviving Gilbert's Potoroos at Two Peoples Bay in Western...
Mum's Elephant
Author: Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O'Keefe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 0 to 8 'A simply lovely story about the sometimes-quirky memories we have of our...
The Lizard Gang
Author: Kirra Somerville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 28 Meet Zed, Zoro, Eliza and Boo, a spirited gang of monitor lizards who learn the meaning of cooperation and...
Jack Maggs
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The...
Celebrating 100 Years at Duntroon: Royal Military College o Australia 1911 - 2011
Author: Big Sky Publishing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Celebrate the 100 year anniversary of RMC and discover the rich history of Duntroon with this superbly designed...
The Romance of the Stockman: the Lore, Legend, and Literature of Australia's Outback Heroes
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 247 A wonderful novel by one of Australia's most loved and awarded writers, long out of print and now revived...