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Jack Maggs

Jack Maggs

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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...
The Tax Inspector

The Tax Inspector

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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...
The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears

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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...
His Illegal Self

His Illegal Self

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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...
Amnesia

Amnesia

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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...
A Long Way from Home

A Long Way from Home

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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...
True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

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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...
Bliss

Bliss

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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...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

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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...
A Shorter History of Australia

A Shorter History of Australia

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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...
A Is for Australia

A Is for Australia

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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...
Girl Stuff 13+: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years

Girl Stuff 13+: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years

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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...
The Making of Australia

The Making of Australia

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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...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

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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...
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country

Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country

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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,...
Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three

Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three

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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...
Araluen

Araluen

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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...
Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

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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,...
Bitter Wash Road (Rejacketed)

Bitter Wash Road (Rejacketed)

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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...
The Fatal Shore

The Fatal Shore

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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"...
Boy Overboard

Boy Overboard

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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...
A Fortunate Life

A Fortunate Life

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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...
An Angel In Australia

An Angel In Australia

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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...
Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897

Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897

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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...
Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics

Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics

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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...
True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

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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...
Beneath the Southern Cross

Beneath the Southern Cross

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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...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

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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...
Gallipoli

Gallipoli

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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...
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island

The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island

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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...
A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics

A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics

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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...
The Birth Of Melbourne

The Birth Of Melbourne

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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...
A Fraction Of The Whole

A Fraction Of The Whole

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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...
First Day

First Day

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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...
The Undesirables: Inside Nauru

The Undesirables: Inside Nauru

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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...
Blue Collar Frayed: Working Men in Tomorrow's Economy

Blue Collar Frayed: Working Men in Tomorrow's Economy

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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,...
The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

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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...
Sharks A History of Fear in Australia

Sharks A History of Fear in Australia

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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...
Borders Battlers

Borders Battlers

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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...