Australasian History

The start of World War 2 changed women's lives and their place in Australian society forever. Thousands of women ventured where few had gone before - into the services and...

An important reckoning with Australia's unspoken history of slave trade. From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli As Australia...

The war letters of Arthur Alan Mitchell 1939-45. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Alan Mitchell was a foreman at McPherson's bolt factory in Richmond. Eileen Griffin was...

The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated. Some 400,000 Australians volunteered for active duty, an astonishing 13 per...

THE ASTONISHING STORY OF ERIN PATTERSON AND THE MUSHROOM MURDER TRIAL THAT HORRIFIED AND ENTHRALLED THE WORLD On 29 July 2023 the family and friends of Erin Patterson sat down...

Jane Harper's new novel, The Survivors , now available for pre-order A best crime fiction book of 2019 pick in The Times A thriller of the year 2019 pick in...

The book titled The Secret Discovery of Australia: Portuguese Ventures 250 Years by the author Kenneth Gordon McIntyre. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

'These are stories of passion and dedication, of risk and resilience, of excellence and Australian larrikinism, of inventiveness and determination.' Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny on The Flying Kangaroo '...

'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences...

'We all need heroes to look up to and to emulate.' - Sir Arvi Parbo AC Blending sound research with enlightening anecdotes, Jack Davenport, Beaufighter Leader charts Jack's development from...

'Full of atmosphere and shocks' THE TIMES 'One of the best Aussie thriller debuts since Chris Hammer's Scrublands ' PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH 'The pace spirals and the twists multiply' S. R....

Looking Forward, Looking Back explores the Australian Army's rich and proud history. The Australian Army boasts a broad variety of traditions, some of which belong to the Service as a...

The Snowy Mountains Scheme changed Australia forever. A country founded on stolid British stock almost overnight became one of the world's great pancultures. Tens of thousands of workers from more...

The book titled Don't Stand on the Grass - Memoirs of Early Nursing in Australia: by the author Fleur Finnie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled The Torch is Lit: a Life of Harold George Steele by the author David Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Melbourne's Mercy by the author Susan Priestley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the spring of 1987, a few weeks after her husband's death, Jane Weaver Poulton was rummaging through the sea chest Jack made on Tulagi Island and found a mass...

Representing the work of key international scholars in the field, this important work chronicles the suffering of the non-combatants, or enemy aliens as officials described them, who were interned by...

The touching, true story of the first Australian RAAF airman to fly a Lancaster Bomber in World War II. As a fifteen-year-old boy growing up in Sydney, Francis Norman 'Norm'...

"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure." - Mark Twain At the age...

This is not only the story of one man's war, but of an aircraft - the Typhoon, or "Tiffy" as it was affectionately known - which the author describes as...

Brimming with vivid memories, gossip, humble reflections, tales of courageous acts and political intrigues, and strategies for new generations of women. Rather than locating "the woman leader" as the isolated...

'It is a fascinating tale of love and passion, courage and perfidy, ambitions and progressive politics, told against a background of world and national events.' -The Hon. Michael Kirby, Past...

The prominent Australian artist Nora Heysen has been said to have worked in the shadow of her father Hans Heysen, one of Australia's most recognised landscape painters. Letters between the...

Age range 6 to 9 Have you heard of the Great Southern Reef? Join Professor Seaweed and her friends Frankie and Sam to learn more about one of Australia's best...

The inspiring, heartwarming true story of Barney and Kada Miller. This couple prove that love and resilience can change everything. As a 20-year-old, David 'Barney' Miller was one of the...

The book titled Aviculture in Australia: Keeping and Breeding Aviary Birds by the author Mark Shephard. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this volume the Australian Academy of Science celebrates and assesses two centuries of Australian science. Authors with different fields of interest present a group of general surveys and case...

William Thwaites engineered the Melbourne sewerage system with meticulous and untiring attention. He overcame technical challenges with such efficiency and foresight that the scheme served Melburnians unchanged for the next...

Anyone who thinks Australia is a scientific backwater - that has given the world little more than vegemite, the wine dispensing cask and the hills-hoist clothes line - should think...

The book titled Blast the Bush by the author Len Beadell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Too Long in the Bush by the author Len Beadell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

If a bad attitude could be subject to copyright, my ten years as a waiter would have left me obscenely wealthy. Working the floor, I was the Kerry Packer of...

Secrets. Glamour. Lies. Your new favourite twisty thriller was written by INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Rebecca Heath 'Pitch perfect!' Jo Furniss, author of All the Little Children A REMOTE ISLAND It's been...

The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs. In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef...

Insects are the forgotten members of Australia's rich and diverse fauna. Few people can recognise more than a few common groups and species, yet there are more insect species that...

This book is a guide to the invertebrate orders known to occur on land in Australia. A series of illustrated keys allows the reader to identify invertebrates to the order...

Learn to identify 36 of Australia's most common birds and develop your birdwatching skills while creating great memories with family and friends. Backyard Birdwatching helps to increase the environmental life...

So many people have felt a shift towards prioritising a more authentic life in recent years, and nowhere exemplifies that life better than the bush. Rural Australians navigate isolation, the...

A group of little bilbies are hunting for decorations to turn their Australian bush home into a magical Christmas wonderland. Join them on their adventure and meet some friendly Australian...

A luscious survey of forty-five of the most interesting tropical houses built in south-east Asia and Australia over the last fifty years, arranged decade by decade. This stunningly illustrated volume...

'I jump back, curse in rapid fire, and then lean forward and shove the box hard, off the bench, and away from me. It thuds on the floor. Is this...

The book titled Barwick by the author David Marr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The rich colours and lyrical words make this the perfect book to add to a bedtime routine. Acclaimed mother-and-son team Sally Morgan and Ezekiel Kwaymullina take readers on a journey...

The definitive guide to Australia's surfing history, published in conjunction with Surfing Australia. Australian surf culture is over a century old, and it still hasn't grown up. From its roots...