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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...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Donald Horne
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
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
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
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
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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...
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
Robert Menzies' Forgotten People
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True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia
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Australians at War: A Pictorial History
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The Spirit of the Digger
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The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life
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Botany Bay: The Real Story
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1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
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...