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The Australian Ugliness
Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In...
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and
On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on...
100 Canberra Houses: A Century of Capital Architecture
$70.00 AUD
Tim Reeves and Alan Roberts have carefully selected a diverse array of private and public dwellings from the first 100 years of Canberra. They reveal the social history and context...
Shadows of War
World War 2 in the Asia-Pacific still casts many shadows. The shadows fall on the lives of Australian ex-POWs, soldiers and their families. Veterans are aged but recall horrors under...
Apple Island Wife: Slow Living In Tasmania
What happens when you leave city life and move to five acres on a hunch, with a husband who's an aspiring alpaca-whisperer, and a feral cockerel for company? Can you...
Ivan Rijavec: Pure Form
Ivan Rijavec is an Australian architect, based in Melbourne, who continues to produce work that astounds both his peers and the wider commuinity. Though commentators find it difficult to categorise...
Explore Wilderness Australia
$15.00 AUD
Australia is a land of diversity and contains many World Heritage listed wilderness areas of extraordinary beauty. With an increasing awareness of environmental issues, there is an increased desire to...
1001 Australians You Should Know
Following the huge success of his previous book, 1001 Songs (now in third reprint), Toby Creswell tells us about 1001 significant Australians that we should all know about. He gives...
Into the Future: The Neglect of the Long Term in Australian Politics
Into the Future is an examination of Australia's current approach to long-term issues and its ability to develop informed public opinion about Australia's future. The book explains why long-term strategic...
Colonial Cousins: A Surprising History of Connections Between India
Colonial Cousins explores the historic relationships and connections between Australia and India, two colonies of the British Empire. The work considers affinities of landscape and culture, and documents relationships in...
The Long Way Home: Nobody Goes That Way
Lydia Laube returns to Saudi Arabia, collects her pay and decides to take 'the long way home' through Egypt, Sudan, Kenya and India. Our Good Little Woman is as eccentric...
Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: A History of the Ashes in 10 Matches
Simon Hughes tells the stories of ten extraordinary Ashes encounters, drawn from every period of Test match history. With an innovative and distinctive approach Hughes selects each match as a...
The Ancients: Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild
In wild Tasmania there are trees whose direct ancestors lived with dinosaurs. Many of those alive today are thousands of years old, and some have been growing for ten millennia...
All Day Long the Noise of Battle
During the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in February 1968 an Australian infantry company assaulted a North Vietnamese bunker complex. In the longest sustained attack fought by Australians during the Vietnam...
The Final Chapter: The new bold and gripping thriller about writerly
Benjamin Stevenson meets Nine Perfect Strangers in a story about writerly ambition, self-discovery and - of course - revenge. Sharp, fresh, bold, thrilling and gothic - gripping suspense from a...
A Singular Voice: Essays on Australian Art and Architecture
A Singular Voice is the first collection of essays by Joan Kerr, controversial and popular Australian art and architecture scholar, historian, curator, feminist and public speaker. The essays are wide-ranging,...
Troppo Architects
Historically, the phrase "going troppo" came into prominence in World War II. It meant to be "heat affected", one went "off", a little mad in the heat of the tropics....
Committed to Learning: A History of Education at the University of
Consistently ranking in the top five educational faculties in the world, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education has achieved a status few would have predicted. This history of the first...
Homes in the Sky: The Story of Apartments in Australia
Australian cities are being remade by an unprecedented apartment boom with more apartments than houses being built in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. ""Homes in the Sky"" features many of the...
La Trobe: The Making of a Governor
Charles Joseph La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor (1851;54). His administration, which coincided with the turbulent challenges of the...
Robin Boyd
Now available in paperback, this highly acclaimed biography examines Boyd's career as an architect, writer and social critic, and as a man of his times.
From the Trenches: The Best Anzac Writing of World War One
From the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life at the front, recorded by those who lived through the fighting. In the centenary of...
The Australian Fisherman's Companion
This handbook is different. All 240 species, common to Australian waters, listed here have been grouped into ten easy to follow sections.The author loved to fish as a young boy....
Always Was, Always Will Be: The Campaign for Justice and Recognition
In Always Was, Always Will Be , bestselling author Thomas Mayo investigates 'what's next?' for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum. Since...
Shockwave: An Australian Helicopter Crew in Vietnam
Vietnam War pilots and crews of Australia's fleet of Iroquois helicoptersThe Vietnam War in the 1960's and 1970's was characterised by the mobility provided by Iroquois UH-1H helicopters. They were...
Cavan Station
A history of Cavan Station and the Riley legacy Cavan Station near Yass, now owned by Rupert Murdoch, is one of the most important grazing properties in the history of...
In Their Own Image: Greek Australians: Greek Australians
$160.00 AUD
Documentary photographer Effy Alexakis and social historian Leonard Kaniszewski have been researching the history and contemporary prescence of Greeks in Australia for the last sixteen years. It has culminated in...
Memoirs from a Young Republic
The book titled Memoirs from a Young Republic. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Building a Masterpiece: The Sydney Opera House
Half a century has passed since Australia's New South Wales government launched a competition to give Sydney a new music and performance centre. The result of that competition is the...
Melbourne's Grand Boulevard - the Story of St. Kilda Road
The book titled Melbourne's Grand Boulevard - the Story of St. Kilda Road. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Songlines (1st American Edition)
$25.00 AUD
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Third printing of first US edition of Chatwin's classic.
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird
$30.00 AUD
The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognise that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal...
Native Grasses: Identification Handbook for Temperate Australia
An easy-to-use tool for identifying some of the most common native grasses in temperate Australia. The text describes 17 species in detail, covering general features as well as specific distinguishing...
The River: A Journey Through the Murray-Darling Basin
Australia's major river system is collapsing. Parts of it are dying; parts of it are already dead. Australia's most significant river no longer reaches the sea. I look out into...
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 Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections
This volume of original essays brings together, for the first time, histories of the making and of the makers of most of the major Indigenous Australian museum collections. These collections...
Australia's Foreign Relations
The most rigorous, lively and comprehensive 'insider' account of the way Australian foreign policy works. 'honest, and provides a framework against which to judge foreign policy actions and achievements' Cameron...
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and
For most of Australia's colonial history its indigenous people have been denied full membership in Australian society. This book examines the history of their citizenship status and asks whether it...
Living in the Landscape: Extraordinary rural homes in Australia and
From remote cliff tops to the heart of a rainforest, this book features some of Australia and New Zealand's most breathtaking homes. As urban life becomes increasingly more demanding, many...
Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia
$200.00 AUD
Indigenous concepts of time play a critical role in the works of many contemporary Australian artists. Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia showcases prime examples, featuring many...
The Australian Bird-Garden: Creating Havens for Native Birds
Gardens - places of earthly delight - can offer both owners and visitors the opportunity to make closer connections with nature. Birds, with their songs, their colours and their antics,...
The Lucky Escape
'It whisked me away on a much-needed holiday' Beth O'Leary 'I can't remember the last time a book made me forget I had a phone' Stacey Halls 'What an absolute...
Duty Nobly Done: An extraordinary account of 11 family members in the
This is the extraordinary true story of 11 young Australian men from one extended family and their experiences in the great adventure that would change their lives - the Great...
Fly a Rebel Flag: The Battle at Eureka
A fictionalised account of the Eureka stockade battle. The diggers took made a stand against license fees and police harassment. They took up arms, built a stockade and swore to...
Bush Heroes: A People, a Place, a Legend
The sacred nature of Anzac day is as important to Australians now as it was nearly a century ago. But why? Integral to an understanding of its continuing significance is...