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Award-winning nature photographers Stanley and Kaisa Breeden explore Australia's small animal life to reveal the wonder and beauty of looking closely into nature. Their specially developed digital photography techniques make...

A beautiful and comprehensive book on horses. From Phar Lap to Makybe Diva, Garryowen to Picasso, and Our Solo to Peppermint Grove, Australians adore their horses. Be it a pony...

A #1 bestselling picture book. The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found. With illustrations by multi-award-winning artist Danny Snell...

The book titled Australian Birds: Simply Classified: Simply Classified by the author Donald Trounson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ron Brooks grew up in East Gippsland, a country boy with a yen for drawing and observation of the life around him. He became an acknowledged master of the picture-book...

The book titled Timeless Machines: (Veteran and Vintage Motoring in Australia and New by the author Pedr Davis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Abstract Earth will be released to coincide with a long-overdue retrospective exhibition of one of Australia's foremost landscape photographers, Richard Woldendorp. It showcases over 27 years of Woldendorp's best aerial...

This scholarly and highly illustrated study of Fred Williams was originally published in 1980, and was the first comprehensive and fully researched attempt to inform a wider public of the...

Heartlines presents the poetry of Australian Instagram sensation Gemma Troy, one gorgeous verse at a time. Gemma Troy spent her childhood hunting for gold with her father, camping in fern...

A profound and beautiful masterpiece about a lifelong friendship between two writers. In this shimmering mosaic of a novel, a writer reflects on the final days of her friend's life....

Years later, when I found my mother, I asked, 'Why did you let me go?' My mother told me, in a very soft voice, 'My son, you were going to...

BELLE BEAUTIFUL AUSTRALIAN HOMES VOLUME IV is the latest hardcover publication from the team at Belle, Australia's leading interior design magazine. This volume takes readers on a grand tour of...

More than just a book, A Time of Living Graciously is a celebration of life's rich tapestry, woven with threads of loving kindness and wisdom. Brigid Lowry's insights into ageing...

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 behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before...

A collection of quotations from notable Australians who have suffered major public defeats or setbacks, yet in some manner, carried the day. From Ned Kelly's words at his sentencing, to...

Raymond Priestley was the first salaried Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. It was a time of great upheaval, as Australian universities reshaped and reasserted themselves after the Great Depression....

The book titled Airforce Australia by the author George Odgers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Known by the contemporary press as Big John, Forrest was as large in reputation as he was in stature, and achieved a level of fame and popularity unique in the...

The book titled Gold! by the author John Nicholson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A celebration of the first 40 years of the Australian Tapestry Workshop, one of Australia's largest producers of public art. This elegant, four-colour illustrated hardback celebrates the first 40 years...

Identifies with the city's style, engages your visual palate, highlighting the city's differences and uniqueness. On the back of his successful inaugural exhibition, Australia's upcoming photographer Con Hionis, showcases a...

The book titled Above Sydney by the author N. Brash. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Illustrated with over 260 colour plates from three major collections, 'One Sun One Moon' captures the breadth and depth of Aboriginal art and its contemporary expression.

Travel along Melbourne's twisting Yarra river in a glorious celebration of indigenous culture and Australia's unique flora and fauna. Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly and Aboriginal Elder of the Wurundjeri people...

As Mary Malbunka shares her stories of playing with friends, building cubby houses, climbing trees, collecting sugarbag, digging for honey ants, hunting for lizards, and learning about the seasons, animals...

Did you know. that an emu can run faster than an Olympic champion? that magpies can learn to talk? that a cockatoo can live to 100 years? that a tawny...

Stories of the men who mapped Australia Heroes and hooligans, sailors, buccaneers and bushmen Did you know.that as a boy Captain Cook ran away from home? that Ludwig Leichhardt ate...

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

A lift-the-flap or gatefold guessing-game book for pre-school children based on Australian animals, birds and reptiles and their habitats. Animals featured are frill-necked lizards, emus, echidnas, wombats, kangaroos, kookaburras, goannas,...

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...

Of all types of literature, children's literature is perhaps the best loved, most varied, and most subtly influential. Its history is not merely a footnote to social history, but a...

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward: FOUR SISTERS, SEPARATED BY HISTORY, BOUND BY THE SEA 'Beautiful and magnificent' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE 'A profoundly moving and rich...

Momentum showcases the vigour of contemporary architecture in Victoria- innovative, formalist, edgy. Successive generations of Victorian architects maintain the tradition of experimentation. We see this in the work of the...

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple...

For over 100 years Australia's military nurses have been risking their own lives to save the lives of others. From nursing Gallipoli wounded in Egypt during World War I, to...

We all think we know Alan Bond: larger than life, a flamboyant, mesmerising tycoon - a man who went from being Australia's bona fide hero for his Americas Cup win...

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...

This text provides a fully illustrated tie in to a two-part television special that sees David Jason diving in some the world''s most beautiful - and strange - locations.'

A guide to the production and management of growing media, this book is a useful reference tool for practising horticulturists, nursery people, landscape architects, turfgrass managers and serious gardeners.

This book is a comprehensive guide to Australia's rich herpetofauna - more than 1000 species of frogs, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, lizard sand snakes. Included is up-to-date information about habitats, full-color...

Celebrating the life of Peter Brock through his family and friends, personal collections of photos, memorabilia and personalised letters. This book provides unprecedented insight into the exceptional life of Peter...

Australian rock music never encountered a frontman quite like Jimmy Barnes. And it probably never will again. Barnes' life story is one of extremes, overflowing with stories of the extraordinary,...

This book presents the big picture of land-use, the degradation of land and water resources, and some of the wonders of this amazing continent, and provides a prescription for ensuring...

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'...