Australasian History

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,...

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...

'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,...

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...

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 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...

Belonging is a First Nations poetic reflection on Country and the everlasting ties that bind us. A lyrical narrative full of the eternal interconnectedness of our families: land, water, sky,...

After her father's death, Katrina Kittel opens his old Globite suitcase and finds tiny photos, postcards in beautiful handwriting from a mysterious Swiss woman, and memorabilia from his war. Katrina...

A vivid, compelling portrait of the intertwined lives of Aboriginal people and new arrivals in the fledgling colonies. Musquito was just a boy when a convoy of eleven British ships...

From Wall Street to the supreme court, how the world's largest banks control the money markets and crush competition In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money...

The 1960s are remembered as a time of change and upheaval throughout the Western world, including Australia. No part of the country changed more in that decade than the remote...

'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle's do not...

The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War...

'another a piece of the puzzle that is unearthing women's stories from the past ... a beautifully told history' - Books+Publishing A joyous look at the history of lesbian and...

**Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2025, Australian history** Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker. There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of Australia from iconic...

This is what a history of Australia looks like when it has Indigenous perspectives at its heart. For over 65,000 years, people have made this continent their own through language,...

There is more to Frances Sinnett's secret pain than the loss of her children - including the author - to an orphanage. Battalions of sorrows begin when her grandfather at...

Based on the true story of Fay Howe, this gentle, illustrated tale brings to life the hardships of those left at home during WWI - those waiting, wondering and hoping....

A groundbreaking account of the people and places that have shaped Aboriginal Melbourne In Where's All the Community? Aboriginal Melbourne Revisited, Julie Andrews paints a vivid portrait of the Aboriginal...

The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a...

The book titled Always a Lady: Courageous Women of Colonial Australia by the author Nance Donkin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This innovative work is about patterns of shame in a range of important Australian autobiographies published between 1960 and 1995. Writing autobiography is a risky business. What is shameful can...

A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J. C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955....

This provocative analysis challenges the belief that, in the first half of this century, Australia was dependent on Great Britain. Instead, "Markets, Money and Empire", suggests that Australia enjoyed considerable...

The book titled After Light: A History of Adelaide and Its City Council 1878-1928 by the author Peter Morton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

An account of the land and dive time of the exploration of Papua New Guinea, giving, with Cousteau narrative and insight, the lay of land

Focusing on the first meetings of Maoris and Europeans from 1642 to 1722, this book reassesses accounts of early meetings between these two worlds, which have been told almost exclusively...

From one of Australia's leading military historians and biographers, Peter Rees, comes Guts and Glory , an enthralling history of the way in which sport is ever present in the...

The book titled The Social Climbers by the author Chris Darwin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 2004 John Money concluded a research career that spanned 50 years. He cleared his offi ce at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA and returned to his near empty...

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story. It's the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal. The...

Both highly readable and carefully researched, Keeper of the Faith reassesses the part Jim Cairns played in shaping Australian public life. Jim Cairns is a familiar sight around the markets...

Tells of the experiences of the families of men missing in the New Guinea islands during World War II. A Very Long War is about the experiences of the families...

John Hunter Kerr emigrated to Port Phillip from Scotland in 1839. He took up land, became a successful pastoralist and a prominent citizen of Melbourne. The story of the Kerrs'...

The Chief and the Empire uncovers the extraordinary true tale of Te Tai Tokerau rangatira Te Pahi - the first influential Maori leader to cross the Tasman - whose curiosity...

A new edition of the bestselling short history on New Zealand, updated to include the Helen Clark years, the rise of John Key, the Christchurch earthquakes and the 2011 Rugby...

Droughts have lurked behind Australia's major nation-shaping moments from European settlement at Port Jackson to Federation. They have caused catastrophic damage to Aboriginal, colonial and modern societies and, of course,...

A new and challenging narrative history of Australia by acclaimed historian, David Day, Claiming a Continent takes a fresh look at the events which shaped Australian history from invasion to...

My father, political activist Samuel Mark Goldbloom, was my hero and my nemesis all the days of his life. Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo grew up in thrall to her father, a...

The book titled An Interrupted Life by the author Donald Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Describes the intense commercial rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne over a period of 150 years. While Sydney was established nearly 50 years before Melbourne, the great wealth generated by the...

The frontier mythology of the early twentieth-century is epitomised in the stories of these two extraordinary-and very different-men. An elegant, original and very well written book, luminous with meaning, full...