Australasian History

Step through the seasons with some of Australia's most interesting insects. Say hello to chirping cicadas, flashing fireflies, sneaky stick insects and burrowing bees in this adorable introduction to our...

The roast dinner remains a staple in homes and restaurants across the globe. It's a cooking technique that harks back to our earliest days of hunting and roasting meat over...

Shootings, stabbings, stranglings, poisonings and even axe killings. There are more than 100 murders in this chilling account of Australia's most celebrated cases, many attracting worldwide interest, from infamous nineteenth...

This edition supplements the 397 South African reptiles originally represented in this field guide by 64 new species. Some of these are new discoveries in the region, others are reclassifications....

The most capped All Black in history speaks for the record about his storied career, spanning four World Cups, nine Super Rugby finals and 153 appearances in the black jersey....

Australia's love affair with East Coast American architecture and interiors is one that inspires us to reinterpret the style in our own way, whether we live by the coast, near...

Filled with luminous screen prints and evocative prose, Colour Me celebrates every individual colour as well as the power of their combination. We are all different. But together we colour...

Some crimes are so mysterious or ghastly that they take on a legendary status, and Adelaide seems to have had more than its fair share of them. The whole nation...

A wonderful introduction to Australian mammals, this guide is packed with information about the behaviour, development, food and habitat of Australia's remarkable mammals. Each entry fully describes the species and...

Winner of the 2019 Whitley Award for Illustrated Guide A Guide to Native Bees of Australia provides a detailedintroduction to the estimated 2000 species of Australian bees. Illustrated withstunning photographs,...

Two husbands, four trials and one bloody execution: Winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Crime Book (Non-fiction) -- the terrible true story of Louisa Collins. In January 1889,...

From the Batavia massacre through to the disappearance of Donald Mackay, the killing of Megan Kalajzich, the Hilton bombing and the Lesbian Vampire killing, this book documents 25 of Australia's...

The book titled Spiderwatch : a Guide to Australian Spiders: A Guide to Australian by the author Bert Brunet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Great Properties of the Riverina and Upper Murray follows on from the bestselling Great Properties of Country Victoria and Great Properties of Tasmania, and tells the story of sixteen significant...

The story of the people, the events and the ideas that shaped Australian foreign policy and gave Australia its identity in the eyes of the rest of the world. In...

Born in 1894, Albert Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with...

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches. Since...

This work documents the diversity and vitality of lesbian talent in Australia. A hitherto marginalized group, lesbian artists are now being incorporated into mainstream culture and this work provides an...

'This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us,...

Following training in Australia, Canada and the UK, Fred Riley flew Spitfires with No 130 (Punjab) Squadron RAF from October 1943 until December 1944. Flying the Spitfire Mk.V, he escorted...

Based on, and inspired by, the life and work of a man intrigued by the natural world. It is a synthesis of the results of many years of research on...

A guide to over 130 plant species, from seagrasses to the beautiful Boronia alata , from mangroves of the Abralhos Islands that grow along the Perth coastline and on the...

Western Australian wildflowers are internationally renowned for their beauty and variety, and verticordias are no exception. Verticordia: The Turner of Hearts brings together for the first time available information on...

Love, friendship and dangerous secrets in the early years of Cadbury's Tasmanian factory. It's 1921, and after years of working for Cadbury's at Bournville, Dorothy Adwell is on her way...

The book titled Timor 1942: Australian Commandos at War with the Japanese by the author Christopher C.H. Wray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The Welsh people have been part of Australian society since white settlements began two centuries ago, and today, those of Welsh descent, such as and Kylie Minogue, have achieved worldwide...

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is a revered legend of the development of Australia as a caring nation. However, few Australians are aware of the man who founded it-John Flynn-usually...

When Elspeth returns from New York to her hometown of Geelong, it's not for a holiday - it's because her mother has vanished. While her sister, Aoife, and Elspeth wait...

The first draft of this book was written under a tree on the slope of a sandhill where, for several years, Englishwoman Pat Lowe shared a desert camp with her...

Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Where'd You Go Bernadette in this witty novel about coming of (middle) age and discovering that you...

A unique book that combines an appreciation of Aboriginal art with contemporary theoretical concerns. On one level it is a beautifully illustrated book about contemporary Aboriginal art from the Central...

In this book Libby Robin explores the links between nature and nation. By looking at some of those who observe the natural world most closely including scientists, field naturalists and...

Original work that tells a story about cross-cultural encounters that will be a revelation to many readers. It shows how the connections between Aborigines and Australians have continued for centuries....

By addressing themes such as social and economic change, government policy and gender relations, this volume tackles the thematic complexities of sustainability. At the heart of this discussion lies a...

The book titled Australian Contemporary Drama by the author Dennis Carroll. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, "HMS Invincible", during the Falkland War of April to June 1982, and was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the command on the tactics,...

The wealth of rock art that proliferates in Western Arnhem Land in the northern part of Australia is of immense significance as evidence of the world's oldest continuous culture, featuring...

One of the most famous shipwreck sagas of the 19th century took place on the tropical coast of north-east Australia. In 1836 "The Stirling Castle" was wrecked off the Queensland...

Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is...

The book titled Air War Pacific by the author Christopher Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia is the first book to assess the whole history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation. This first volume presents a...

Sumner offers numerous, sometimes surprising, insights into all aspects of theatre life: acting, directing and the production process, the question of standards, the role of government, and of course the...

This book interprets the predicament faced by Australia's regional people from their own perspective and proposes a means by which they can act together to find a secure future under...

The Internet is the first truly global communications medium. Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can publish material to a potentially vast audience located in any number of...