Australasian History

Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Sonya Hartnett Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956 Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A wickedly funny satire on modern life and families. The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Peter Carey's brilliant, hilarious, Booker Prize-shortlisted Illywhacker is the novel that brought him to international intention. Herbert Badgery is...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Peter Carey is at his inventive, brilliant best in His Illegal Self, a novel about a family who, once...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In Amnesia Peter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes...

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...

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...

Author: Frane Lessac (Author/Illustrator) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 A factastic tour of Australia from A to Z with award-winning author and illustrator Frane Lessac. Now in...

Author: Kaz Cooke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The must-have girls' guide for the teen years, fully revised and updated edition 2019/2020. With more than 600 pages...

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...

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...

Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again. It is the driest, flattest,...

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...

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...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The incomparable Oscar and Lucinda won Peter Carey his first Booker Prize, and the Miles Franklin Award. Oscar Hopkins,...

Author: Garry Disher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A gripping prequel to Garry Disher's Peace, the must-read Australian rural crime novel of 2019. 'Shots fired on Bitter...

Author: Robert Hughes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 "An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler"...

Author: Morris Gleitzman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A story of adventure, ball control and hope. Jamal and Bibi have a dream. To lead Australia to soccer...

Author: A B Facey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a haunting and evocative tale of murder and loss of innocence in...

Author: Fiona Foley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 164 A striking and compelling book reclaiming history by a renowned Indigenous visual artist. In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 247 A wonderful novel by one of Australia's most loved and awarded writers, long out of print and now revived...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Chloe Hooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at...

Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Australian literature's strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist. It is the duty of a good child to...

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...

Author: Steve Toltz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry...

Author: Andrew Daddo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 The must-have picture book for every child starting school, with a clever twist all parents will relate to! Are...

Author: Mark Isaacs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 When it comes to asylum-seekers on Nauru, we learn only what the government wants us to know. In the...

Author: Jennifer Rayner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us,...

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...

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...

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...