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1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

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Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. An extraordinary narrative...
The Crying Years: Australia's Great War

The Crying Years: Australia's Great War

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Author: Peter Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 The Great War continues to fascinate us all. In this original approach, prize-winning historian Peter Stanley cleverly weaves his...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

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Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians

Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians

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Author: Royce Kurmelovs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Australia's mining boom is...
Qantas: The Flying Kangaroo

Qantas: The Flying Kangaroo

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Author: Neil Montagnana-Wallace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 No symbol better conveys the intrepid spirit of Australia than the flying kangaroo. Whether it's glimpsed on a red-eye flight to...
The Flying Optometrist

The Flying Optometrist

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Author: Joanne Anderton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Age range 4+ The Flying Optometrist travels in his little red aeroplane from his practice in the city to a remote...
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...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

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Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

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Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. The thrilling...
A Bastard of a Place

A Bastard of a Place

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Birds and Botanists

Birds and Botanists

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Author: Trevor Pescott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A fascinating local field guide for Geelong, using records from the Geelong field naturalist club (1880-1932). Shedding light on the history of...
Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

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Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in...
Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly

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Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he...
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties

Radicals: Remembering the Sixties

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Author: Meredith Burgmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Sixties - an era of protest, free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert...
French Connection: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions

French Connection: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions

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Author: Alexis Bergantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize The French have been integral to the Australian story since...
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)

The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)

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Author: Don Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us...
An Anzac's Story

An Anzac's Story

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Robert Menzies' Forgotten People

Robert Menzies' Forgotten People

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Australians at War: A Pictorial History

Australians at War: A Pictorial History

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The Spirit of the Digger

The Spirit of the Digger

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The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life

The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life

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Inferno

Inferno

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Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

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The Penguin Bi-Centennial History of Australia

The Penguin Bi-Centennial History of Australia

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Visions of a Village: Canterbury Shops and Shopping 1880s-1990s (SIGNED)

Visions of a Village: Canterbury Shops and Shopping 1880s-1990s (SIGNED)

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Vermilion and Gold: Vignettes io Chinese Life in Ballarat

Vermilion and Gold: Vignettes io Chinese Life in Ballarat

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John Curtin's War (Two-Volume Set)

John Curtin's War (Two-Volume Set)

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The Bush

The Bush

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First to Damascus: The Story of the Australian Light Horse and Lawrence of Arabia

First to Damascus: The Story of the Australian Light Horse and Lawrence of Arabia

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British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the Empire

British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the Empire

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Author: Dr Kama Maclean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 *Shortlisted for the 2021 Ernest Scott Prize* *Highly Commended - Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* *Shortlisted for the...
Journal: Australian Reminiscences Illustrated with Her Own Watercolours and Contemporary Drawings and Sketches

Journal: Australian Reminiscences Illustrated with Her Own Watercolours and Contemporary Drawings and Sketches

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The Australian Century: Political Struggle In The Building Of ANation

The Australian Century: Political Struggle In The Building Of ANation

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The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation from the Whitely Award winning author of The Ferals That Ate Australia

The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation from the Whitely Award winning author of The Ferals That Ate Australia

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Front Pages That Shaped Australia (Lifetime)

Front Pages That Shaped Australia (Lifetime)

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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

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Perth

Perth

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Author: David Whish-Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ...we rarely travel far to swim. We occasionally cross the river to Leighton or Cottesloe, where the white sand squeaks underfoot...
The Quest For Grace

The Quest For Grace

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Greats: The 50 Men and Women Who Most Helped to Shape Modern Australia

Greats: The 50 Men and Women Who Most Helped to Shape Modern Australia

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Manningham: A History

Manningham: A History

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The Myth of the Great Depression

The Myth of the Great Depression

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Bitter Victory: The Death of HMAS "Sydney"

Bitter Victory: The Death of HMAS "Sydney"

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Cover-up: the Story of the Balibo Five: The inside Story of the Balibo Five

Cover-up: the Story of the Balibo Five: The inside Story of the Balibo Five

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From the Front: A.B. (Banjo) Paterson's Dispatches from the Boer War: A.B. Paterson's Dispatches from the Boer War

From the Front: A.B. (Banjo) Paterson's Dispatches from the Boer War: A.B. Paterson's Dispatches from the Boer War

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The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Commonwealth

The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Commonwealth

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