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No One's Child
In her compelling memoir, The Girl with the Cardboard Port, Judith McNeil shared the incredible story of her life in the turbulent world of Singapore and Malaya during the 1960s....
Once in Broome
In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 50s. As one of the 'after...
Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now
Beautifully designed, this book has been written by the Indigenous staff at the Powerhouse and Melbourne museums. It presents a diverse range of Indigenous cultural expression from across Australia including...
Van Diemen's Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania
A record of Irish transporation and how the women who left shaped Tasmania. On 2 September 1845 the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land, with 138...
Australia's Agricultural Identity - an Aboriginal yarn
Putting culture back in Agriculture. A young, entrepreneurial Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future....
The Captains
From Australia's first Test cricket captain Dave Gregory, through to the current captain Ricky Ponting, Malcolm Knox's new book tells the colourful story of how Australian cricket has evolved since...
Never Order Chicken On A Monday
What is it really like to work in a restaurant? What do chefs do when they are running out of the night's most popular dish? Do they really serve food...
Best Seat in the House
Racer and broadcaster Neil Crompton has had the best seat in the house for the last 40 years of Australian motorsport, an amazing lifetime upgrade to a first-hand, front row...
Where Soldiers Lie: The Quest to Find Australia's Missing War Dead
What drives veterans, military experts and forensic investigators to dedicate years to search for and identify the remains of fallen warriors? What does it mean to the families of the...
Back on the Block: Bill Simon's Story
Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn't want him that he was 'the...
Gone for a Song: A Death in Custody on Palm Island
Happily drunk and singing, Mulrunji, a popular member of Palm Island's Aboriginal community, was picked up by the police. Between the paddy wagon and the cells, there was an altercation...
Latest Readings
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Explores Australia
A brand new Very Hungry Caterpillar lift-the-flap adventure featuring a world of wonderful animals - exclusively for Australia! Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he explores Australia and makes lots...
Allied and Addicted
In many respects, Australia behaves as if it were still a colonial dependency. Our policies on foreign affairs, trade, human rights, and the environment seem to be uncritically allied to...
Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia: The Initiation of
Souter describes in fascinating detail the years of rapid and dramatic change from federation in 1901 to the end of the Great War. A new cheaper edition published to coincide...
A Handful of Hacks
Here are some of the stories of the towering giants of World War II journalism: Wilfred Burchett, Richard Hughes, George Johnston, Alan Moorehead, Kenneth Slessor, Chester Wilmott and Lorraine Stumm....
Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of
Winner of the University Of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award A deeply personal exploration of Australia's colonisation past, present and future by one of Australia's finest contemporary authors. This is a...
The Royals in Australia
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The relationship between Australia and the royal family is complex and fascinating. We are drawn to the pure magic of palaces, celebrity romance and high-fashion, but it goes deeper. This...
Indigenous: The Making of My Native Garden
This is the story of how Don Burke built his dream, transforming a bush block with virtually no soil - a barren rocky hillside in a dry rainshadow area -...
Outback Railwaymen: Life on the Commonwealth Railways
CENTRAL AUSTRALIA RAILWAY NORTH AUSTRALIA RAILWAY TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY "Outback Railwaymen Life on the Commonwealth Railways" explores the life and times of three extraordinary railways, through the recollections and humorous stories...
Flood Horror and Tragedy
This book is a memento to all who suffered pain and loss during the worst and most widespread flooding that has ever occurred throughout Queensland. The 'big wet' of Summer...
Changing Employment Relations in Australia
Changing Employment Relations in Australia examines recent developments in industrial relations and human resource management. The core of the book consists of studies of six industries: airlines, automobile manufacturing, banking,...
The Clinking: A powerful ecological love story about grief and hope in
From Richell Prize-winning debut author Susie Greenhill comes a tender and profoundly moving exploration of life and loss. In the early morning, Elena woke as Orla pulled back the doona...
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...
The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II
**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime** Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members....
Australia at the Olympics
From the dual success of Edwin Flack at Athens in 1896 to the aspirations of the current young Australian hopefuls, this is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to Australia s...
Royal Visits to Australia
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Out of Australia's total population of around nine million, an estimated seven million people turned out to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Sixty...
Flavours of Melbourne: Over 90 Restaurants, Bars, & Hotels with Their
Melbourne's metropolis has had a long affinity with all things culinary. The cuisines that started the city's famous food scene - Italian, Greek, and Vietnamese - now exist alongside diverse...
The Snakebite Survivors' Club
Jeremy Seal travels to the USA, Africa, Australia and India to meet people living amongst the world's deadliest snakes - and attempts to overcome his personal fear in the process....
In Search of Hobart
Peter Timms leads us on a journey through his adopted city of Hobart, Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital. He reveals a city in...
The Philosopher's Daughters
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR A tale of two very different sisters whose 1890s voyage from London into remote outback Australia becomes a journey of self-discovery, set against a landscape of wild beauty...
The Time of their Lives
In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
A comprehensive and accessible overview and analysis of government policy and practice in relation to the removal of indigenous children in Australia. This major work - the first of its...
Boom Town Snap
Award-winning author Jay Martin's new novel deals with the internal conflict of a woman struggling to balance her professional and personal lives. When Georgie's boss-turned-lover, Nico, offers her a high-stakes...
Into the Mouth of the Wolf
Part thriller, part queer romance, Into the Mouth of the Wolf is a stunning, CBCA Notable YA novel from the award-winning author of Amelia Westlake . SHORTLISTED for Children's Book...
Brightest Wild
A gently lyrical story about discovering Country and the importance of family, friendship and the magic of the bush, from an emerging Indigenous talent and winner of a black&write! Fellowship....