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Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue

Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue

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'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my childhood I was deeply unhappy. I feel...
The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop: The definitive inside story of Neddy Smith and Roger Rogerson, partners in crime

The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop: The definitive inside story of Neddy Smith and Roger Rogerson, partners in crime

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'Stunning revelations, shocking crimes and a cracking read: I thought I knew a lot about these two infamous villains, but what I learned from Mercer's book surprised even me.' Kate...
Mary Ann and Captain Piper: The remarkable true story of the convicts' daughter who became the toast of colonial Sydney

Mary Ann and Captain Piper: The remarkable true story of the convicts' daughter who became the toast of colonial Sydney

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'An astonishing story of lust and love in early colonial Australia, shocking, entrancing and utterly enthralling.' - Sue Williams, author of Elizabeth and Elizabeth Born on Norfolk Island to First...
Australian Architecture: A history

Australian Architecture: A history

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From First Nations gunyahs and First Fleet huts to 21st century eco-pavilions and skyscrapers, Davina Jackson surveys the evolution of architecture in Australia. Dr Jackson explores how early colonial building...
The Countess from Kirribilli: The mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world

The Countess from Kirribilli: The mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world

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She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends...
Griffith Wars: The powerful true story of Donald Mackay's murder and the town that stood up to the Mafia

Griffith Wars: The powerful true story of Donald Mackay's murder and the town that stood up to the Mafia

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'Donald Mackay was not just an innocent victim tragically struck down by a criminal act. He was a casualty of the actual fight against organised crime ... killed on active...
RAAF Black Cats: The secret history of the covert Catalina mine-laying operations to cripple Japan's war machine

RAAF Black Cats: The secret history of the covert Catalina mine-laying operations to cripple Japan's war machine

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In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missing in action. No details were ever given about the incident that took his...
Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45

Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45

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Australia was born with its eyes wide open. Although politicians spoke publicly of loyalty to Britain and the empire, in secret they immediately set about protecting Australia's interests from the...
Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II

Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II

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Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australia's war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas' exemplary contribution...
Convict Colony: The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds

Convict Colony: The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds

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The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations...
The Original Australians: The story of the Aboriginal People

The Original Australians: The story of the Aboriginal People

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The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Indigenous history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime to the...
Somebody's Land: Welcome to Our Country

Somebody's Land: Welcome to Our Country

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WINNER: 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards Picture Book of the Year (Ages 0-6) WINNER: 2022 Educational Publishing Awards Australia Primary Educational Picture Book WINNER: 2022 Karajia Award for Children's Literature...
Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history

Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history

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Monash and Chauvel follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. John...
Australian Food

Australian Food

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The long-awaited new cookbook from the king of relaxed Australian cafe style food 'Every city has one cafe that becomes the poster child for its inner spirit, and for Sydney,...
Iconic: Modern Australian houses 1950-2000

Iconic: Modern Australian houses 1950-2000

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'Karen McCartney's Iconic Australian Houses books are re-imagined so cleverly in this freshly redesigned, encyclopaedic book, which brings together in one volume the best of 50 years of Australian residential...
The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1976 - 1989

The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1976 - 1989

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The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions...
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975

The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975

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By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests...
The Squatters: The story of Australia's pastoral pioneers

The Squatters: The story of Australia's pastoral pioneers

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'A very readable history of an important group of Australian pioneers' - Graham Seal, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories For the early settlers who came from Britain's crowded...
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963

The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963

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Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner...
Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War

Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War

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Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2014 Winner of the NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize 2014 Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, History Award...
Tasmania's Convicts: How felons built a free society

Tasmania's Convicts: How felons built a free society

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To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells...
Hell's Battlefield: To Kokoda and beyond

Hell's Battlefield: To Kokoda and beyond

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Hell's Battlefield is the first book that tells the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in New Guinea during World War II, from invasion in 1942 to the...
Tunnel Rats: The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon

Tunnel Rats: The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon

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'All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn't matter how small the tunnel is...
First Footprints: The Epic Story of the First Australians

First Footprints: The Epic Story of the First Australians

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Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic...
Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia

Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia

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Winner of the Prize for Australian History in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2012; The History Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards 2012; the Victorian Prize for Literature 2012;...
Stone Cold: The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Australia's Deadliest Soldier

Stone Cold: The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Australia's Deadliest Soldier

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'If I'd have been a Vietcong you'd be dead.' - Len Opie 'Len was a soldier above soldiers.' - Keith Payne VC Through three wars across 30 years, Len Opie...
The Colony: A history of early Sydney

The Colony: A history of early Sydney

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Winner of the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 'Grace Karskens writes with the passion and insight of a novelist, and the accuracy of a historian. To read it...
Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady: The true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg

Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady: The true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg

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He was the gentleman bushranger . she was the woman who rode with him. This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady. 'Bail up!' demanded Captain Thunderbolt...
King Brown Country: The betrayal of Papunya

King Brown Country: The betrayal of Papunya

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'Why don't you check out Papunya? It's the sniffing capital of Australia, it's a Bermuda triangle for taxpayer funds. Nobody in the NT government gives a rats. The council just...
Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Mammals

Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Mammals

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A wonderful introduction to Australian mammals, this guide is packed with information about the behaviour, development, food and habitat of Australia's remarkable mammals. Each entry fully describes the species and...
Paula's Way: A heart-warming story from the multi-million copy bestselling author

Paula's Way: A heart-warming story from the multi-million copy bestselling author

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An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream, but not so for Paula. She'shappy and secure in Western Australia with her own business, a completecontrast to her rootless childhood, and has...
Chestnut Lane: From the multi-million copy bestselling author

Chestnut Lane: From the multi-million copy bestselling author

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She's loved his music for years and knows he's had a tough time lately, with an intruder slashing his face, then a car accident putting his ability to play music...
The Bay: the waves won't wash away what they did

The Bay: the waves won't wash away what they did

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The tide's coming in. Every wave seems to lap a little higher. Erasing, bit by bit, the traces of what I did.Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend....
The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"

The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"

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"Outback noir has a new star" Mark Sanderson, The Times"A rising star of crime fiction" Joan Smith, Sunday Times"Delivers another larger-than-life, take-no-prisoners slice of outback noir. A truly original writer"...
Tested: The remarkable power of resolve - reflections and conversations on leadership and resilience from Pat Cummins with Julia Gillard, Nedd Brockmann, Prof. Richard Scolyer, and others

Tested: The remarkable power of resolve - reflections and

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Australia's Test Cricket Captain in conversation with remarkable leaders and achievers - from Julia Gillard to Dennis Lillee. When Pat Cummins unexpectedly became Australia's 47th Test captain at age 28,...
Mental State: The insanity of Australia's mental health system - and how to fix it, from the bestselling author of ANXIETY and CHANGING MINDS

Mental State: The insanity of Australia's mental health system - and

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A manifesto about what's wrong with Australia's mental health system and a guidebook for how to treat it, by a neurotic shrink who lives it every day. Psychiatrist Dr Mark...
The Boomers: A biography

The Boomers: A biography

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From heartbreak to triumph: how our national basketball team went from misfits to superstars The Boomers' Olympic triumph in Tokyo was possibly the most celebrated bronze medal in Australian sporting...
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

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THE #1 TRUE CRIME BESTSELLER. Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. WINNER OF 2021 DANGER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONHere...
Batty's Bush Bible: How to do Australia, a hilarious travel & survival guide for aspiring adventurers from the beloved co-creator of Bush Mechanics, perfect for readers of BACK ROADS

Batty's Bush Bible: How to do Australia, a hilarious travel & survival

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From the director of the wildly popular Bush Mechanics and Black As - a can-do guide for your next outback adventure filled with practical advice, ripper yarns and road-trip tips....
The Boomers: A biography

The Boomers: A biography

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From heartbreak to triumph: how our national basketball team went from misfits to superstars The Boomers' Olympic triumph in Tokyo was possibly the most celebrated bronze medal in Australian sporting...
The Sirens

The Sirens

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From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward Sisters separated by centuries.Voices that can't be drowned out. 'Evocative and compelling ... As hopeful as it is heart-wrenching' LUCY CLARKE, author...
The Tudor Deception (Ben Hope, Book 28)

The Tudor Deception (Ben Hope, Book 28)

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An unmissable new thriller from the master of the genre An unsolved historical mystery. A brutal bomb attack.Only one man can track down the killers that link them both.It's 2005:...
Over This Backbone

Over This Backbone

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'an impressive debut that takes readers on a physical and mental journey, shoulder-to-shoulder with this lovable protagonist. It explores the human experience, the Australian landscape, and where these two fascinating...
Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia's Fauna

Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia's Fauna

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Across the world, animals are being domesticated at an unprecedented rate and scale. But what exactly is domestication, and what does it tell us about ourselves? In this book, Marcus...
All the Broken Soldiers: Private Kennedy's War

All the Broken Soldiers: Private Kennedy's War

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To the Australian Army, Private Lawrence Nicholas Kennedy was NX21854, a soldier who served for 1907 days with the 2/4th Australian Army Field Ambulance in Australia, the Middle East, the...
The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"

The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"

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"Outback noir has a new star" Mark Sanderson, The TimesWith DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn...
The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"

The Pit: By the author of THE STONING, "The crime debut of the year"

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"Outback noir has a new star" Mark Sanderson, The TimesWith DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn...
The Bay: the waves won't wash away what they did

The Bay: the waves won't wash away what they did

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'A tense, twisty, addictive read' JO SPAIN'Nail-bitingly tense...leaves you gasping for breath' SARAH PEARSEThe waves are to die for. It's a paradise they'd kill to keep.There's a darkness inside all...