Australasian History

A celebration of Australian cuisine like never before - 350 recipes showcasing the rich diversity of its landscapes and its people. Australia is a true melting pot of cultures and...

'A fabulous family legacy tale' Peterborough Telegraph A surprise inheritance. A hidden past. Brisbane, 2024 Barista and budding artist Mia Curtis is shocked to receive a package all the way...

This practical travel guide to Australia features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our itinerary suggestions and...

Live large, do tough stuff and give back. FIRE UP! shares some of the lessons I've learned from the first twenty-five years of my life, from growing up in the...

If Australian Rules football buried a time capsule, Kevin Sheedy's bomber jacket would be the first item placed inside. AFL's precious artefacts also include Bob Murphy's medal, Angry Anderson's grand...

Australia is different - a vast island-continent with distances so great that the capital of Western Australia is closer to Singapore than it is to Sydney. The landscape embraces magnificent...

Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A NEW YORK TIMES ' 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR' PICK Washington Post 's Top Ten Books of the Year 2025 Los Angeles...

"It seemed like a good idea at the time". With these words young Australian veterinarian Jack Ayerbe takes up the challenge of transferring from a cosy London practice treating domestic...

To the accompaniment of heavenly choirs singing, the fearless Miss Phryne Fisher returns in her 20th adventure with musical score in hand. An orchestral conductor has been found dead and...

How far would you go in the name of love? Sarah Parson s has a choice ahead of her. After the trip of a lifetime she's somehow returned home with...

The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. Celebrate another...

SURGERY, SAND AND SAIGON TEA is the story of a young Australian anaesthetist's service in the Viet Nam War-from peril to pleasure, a year filled with experiences. Marshall Barr prefaces...

p>Australian Icons contains an extraordinary collection of objects, some magnificent, some tatty, some amusing, some poignant, each of which has had a significant part to play in the Australianbr />consciousness./p>p>What...

The book titled Our Australia by the author Paul Taylor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This hard-cover book contains 204 colour pages including 170 pictures by outback artist Howard Steer, and a thousand humorous Australian sayings, or idiom, compiled by Peter Nicholson.

Australian Story is one of the ABC's finest award-winning programs, loved by millions of viewers each week. In this fascinating book, come behind the scenes with Australian Story's journalists, producers...

This definitive work on the introduction of domestic animals to Australia begins with the first white settlement at Botany Bay. It explores the foundations of our wool and beef industries,...

Written by former Deputy Prime Minister, The Honourable Tim Fischer, Steam Australia paints a fascinating picture of Australian steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation; from two world wars,...

Men's lives today are very different from those lived by their fathers. Many men are now asking what they want out of life and whether their existence is as satisfying...

This landmark volume will be created to coincide with the 20th InternationalCongress of Historical Sciences which the University of New South Wales inSydney will be hosting in 2005. Sponsored by...

Filled with reminiscences about Australia since World War Two plus William s own anecdotes and observations, THE MAKING OF MODERN AUSTRALIA touches on the celebrations, sorrows and spirit of the...

The book titled Class Inequality and the State by the author Adam Jamrozik. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A Kiwi's stories of misadventure, mining and mayhem In 1989 Mike Bellamy set off for the remote town of Wiluna, on the edge of the Western Desert. Keen to make...

In this fully illustrated personal look at the culture of hot rods and customised vehicles in Australia, veteran author Joel Wakely has gathered together dozens of fascinating stories about many...

Tasmania is surely one of Australias most beautiful states. When you combine this natural beauty with a relative lack of traffic compared to the mainland states, you get a cyclists...

An exciting addition to the narrative non-fiction series Nature Storybooks, about an Eastern Quoll. The blue-black sky is painted with glistening stars. Quoll has woken. It's playtime here in the...

Clean Living in a Dirty World. A landmark investigation of Australia's ethical track record - that also shows how you can make a difference. Climate change is wreaking havoc. Water...

'A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' S UNDAY TIMES 'S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty...

Bob Cheek's entry into politics was almost pedestrian for a footy star journalist who made his name and fortune by way of a media and fitness industry career; but once...

A compelling insider's account of who the movers and shakers are in the Canberra Press Gallery, how they interact with each other, the pollies, their staff, and who decides what's...

The book titled Romsey: A Veritable Garden of Eden by the author Mitchell Peter Jackson Alan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Winner of the Colin Roderick Award Lion & Kangaroo is one of Australia's great works of history, a rich chronicle of the nation's coming-of-age. With intelligence, wisdom and wit, acclaimed...

Imagine stepping into a packed Australian pub in the mid-1970s and the late 1980s - the heyday of the pub-rock music scene - where the air was thick with the...

The companion volume to YOUNG HAWKE: the making of a larrikin from the award-winning historian and author of CURTIN and CHIFLEY Bob Hawke was one of the most influential Australians...

The book titled The Beginner's Guide to Australian Birds by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

There are so many incredible walks in Australia but how do you know which are the best ones? Over 180 issues and 38 years Australian Geographic has explored Australian landscapes....

Featuring detailed illustrations of the whales and dolphins that call Australia home, this amazing book will profile key species, such as the humpback whale, the sperm whale, the killer whale...

This book provides a new approach to the historical treatment of indigenous peoples' sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand. By shifting attention from the original European claims...

An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist. William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and...