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1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

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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

The Crying Years: Australia's Great War

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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...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

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Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Animals of Australia

Animals of Australia

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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?...
Borders Battlers

Borders Battlers

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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...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

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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...
Collins Australian School Dictionary

Collins Australian School Dictionary

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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...
Never Lose Hope: The Story of Australia's First School

Never Lose Hope: The Story of Australia's First School

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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...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

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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...
The Birth Of Melbourne

The Birth Of Melbourne

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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...
Sharks A History of Fear in Australia

Sharks A History of Fear in Australia

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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 Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

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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...
Badge

Badge

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Author: Craig Wilcox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 172 Uniforms conceal, and uniforms reveal ... They envelop us in costumes akin to flags, in the bold designs and...
Gallipoli

Gallipoli

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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

A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

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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...
Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle

Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle

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Author: Nigel Rigby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific...
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

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Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. The thrilling...
Our Home, Our Heartbeat Book and Puzzle Set

Our Home, Our Heartbeat Book and Puzzle Set

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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...
Birds and Botanists

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...
Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

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Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

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Author: Inga Clendinnen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the...
Accommodating the Kings Hard Bargain Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914-1947

Accommodating the Kings Hard Bargain Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914-1947

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Author: Graham Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating The King's Hard...
Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly

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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...
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties

Radicals: Remembering the Sixties

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Author: Meredith Burgmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Sixties - an era of protest, free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert...
A Shorter History of Australia

A Shorter History of Australia

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Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians A broad, concise...
Why I Love Australia

Why I Love Australia

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Author: Daniel Howarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Featuring children's own words and heart-warming pictures, this is the perfect book for children living in, or visiting Australia. 'I love...
Defeating Terror Behind the hunt for the Bali bombers

Defeating Terror Behind the hunt for the Bali bombers

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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

True History of the Kelly Gang

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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...
Donald Horne

Donald Horne

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Author: Donald Horne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Donald Horne was one of Australia's leading thinkers for close to fifty years, and probably the best Australian non-fiction...
Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three

Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three

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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...
After the Blast: An Australian officer in Iraq and Afghanistan

After the Blast: An Australian officer in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Author: Garth Callender Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A very Australian story of heroism and healing. In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to...
French Connection: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions

French Connection: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions

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Author: Alexis Bergantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize The French have been integral to the Australian story since...
An Anzac's Story

An Anzac's Story

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Breaker Morant: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet, murderer or hero?

Breaker Morant: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet, murderer or hero?

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Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most people...
The Birth Of Sydney

The Birth Of Sydney

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Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's...
The Making of Australia

The Making of Australia

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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...
The Jerilderie Letter

The Jerilderie Letter

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Author: Ned Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and...
Terra Australis

Terra Australis

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Author: Matthew Finders Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 282 Introduced by Tim Flannery The vast interior of this new continent was wrapped in total obscurity; and excited, perhaps...
Araluen

Araluen

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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

Beneath the Southern Cross

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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...
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

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

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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...
Robert Menzies' Forgotten People

Robert Menzies' Forgotten People

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True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia

True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia

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Australians at War: A Pictorial History

Australians at War: A Pictorial History

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The Spirit of the Digger

The Spirit of the Digger

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The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life

The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life

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Botany Bay: The Real Story

Botany Bay: The Real Story

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1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia

1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: James Boyce Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In 1835 an illegal squatter...