Australasian History

Shane Warne, who died in 2022, is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all time - and the greatest spin bowler ever. Warne in Wisden records the...

From Test matches to social knocks - from Lord's to the concrete driveway and the triumphs of the Don. From drama to biography, from eulogy to satire and from anecdote...

The author's captivating account of how she and husband Graeme Blundell dropped out with style. Exchanging the soy milk lattes and eternal traffic snarls of the city for the delights...

The memoirs of 23 locomotive enginemen from Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, complemented by 200 magnificent colour and black & white photographs, most never before published. In the...

The global success story of central Melbourne's transformation since the 1980s The transformation of central Melbourne since the since the 1980s is a global success story-or rather, many success stories....

Akio Makigawa is a Japanese/Australian sculptor whose work can be contextualized within a Western art tradition while remaining within the realm of a Japanese aesthetic sensibility. He was born in...

For forty years, botanical artist Philippa Nikulinsky has been sharing her love of wild places through her painting. Now in her first collaboration on a book with her husband Alex...

Rocks to Riches is the story of Australia's national geological survey, which started life as the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, and is now known as the Australian...

An illustrated catalog of buildings that have won national architecture awards from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

From the authors of Australias favourite bush camping and 4WD guides comes a striking review of the High Country's most aesthetic and historic huts. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful full-colour photographs,...

Explains how Canberra was the natural outcome of a landscape cult thriving in colonial Australia. It also focuses on people who followed Griffin and stamped Canberra with its unique landscape...

Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now reveals the legacies of homophobia, the personal struggles and triumphs involved in coming out, and the many different ways of being gay or lesbian...

This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each other, the firearm is an...

'If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you helped them when broken down, you would have...

Featuring paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts, Australian Symbolism: The Art of Dreams is the only book on this subject and provides a fresh context for the work of some...

Hide & Seek Melbourne is a funky - bordering on quirky - insight into Melbourne's unique hidden treasures. Divided into four main themes, covering places to see/things to do, shopping,...

"Drink Drank Drunk" is full of distinctive, full-bodied, intense, tropical, floral, aromatic, jammy, zesty, toasty, silky, and plummy wine reviews designed to help you through the wine-shop jungle out there....

This text highlights and places into historical context 250 of Sydney's buildings, varying from colonial to contemporary architecture. Anecdotal notes and brief biographies of leading architects are accompanied by house...

A new edition of Sydney's best and most comprehensive walking guide.

English was shaped by a damp green land in the far north and became the language of a wide brown land, Australia. How does that affect people's response to the...

Australian fashion is often accused of being derivative; Australian designers of foisting copies of European designs on the unsuspecting consumer; Australian women of slavishly of slavishly following European fashion. But...

The book titled Creative Spirits: An Insight into the Life and Work of Some by the author Don Featherstone. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Balmain, Glebe & Annandale Walks by the author Joan Lawrence. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Fourteen wonderful tours through Australia's fabulous Harbor City which begin afloat and come to life on foot. Thorough mapping and detailed listings of noteworthy sights accompany each tour.

The Yarra Bend Park marks one of the most important post-contact places in the Melbourne metropolitan area, and is of great significance to Victorian Aboriginal people, particularly the Wurundjeri Aboriginal...

For years Pia Miranda has been stopped in the street by calls of, 'Found you!', forever linked to that character we all loved: Josie from Looking for Alibrandi . But...

Currently starring in CBS'S hit series DR CHRIS: PET VET in the US and delighting audiences in Australia as the host of I'M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE!,...

Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian Car celebrates some of thiscountry's iconic vehicles as sophisticated objects of art and design. From Australia's earliest steam- and petrol-driven automobiles to specialised...

Collection of amusing stories related to Australian Rules football by 39 famous players and commentators. Includes anecdotes from Ted Whitten, TCrackers' Keenan, Alex Jesaulenko and Peter Hudson. Features a foreword...

The book titled Walking Sydney: A Guide to Sydney's 25 Best Walks by the author Lisa Clifford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Contemporary Australian Printmaking by the author Sasha Grishin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In The Buxtons Peter Yule brings their story to life, tracing how this one family left a distinctive mark on Melbourne's landscape. For five generations, the Buxton family has contributed...

"Stephanie's Australia" is an account of Stephanie Alexander's personal odyssey around Australia looking at tastes, places, stories and people. It offers a portrait of the country and its emerging culinary...

The text traces the development of the city through its architecture and urban planning, starting from the first few European settlers through to the year 2000 and its four million...

Les Kossatz's career as an exhibiting artist can be traced back to as early as 1963. This significant, richly illustrated monograph is published to coincide with a major retrospective exhibition.

The Cultural Heritage of Trachyte What is trachyte and how did it come to be the unsung hero of Sydney's building stones? The answer is found in this fascinating story...

The book titled Roads for the People: A History of Victorian Roads by the author Bill Anderson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled The Coast in Flower by the author Ian McCann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the first Quarterly Essay of 2002 Mungo MacCallum provides a devastating account of the Howard government's treatment of the refugees as well as delineating the factors in Australian history...

Shortlisted, Historical + Critical Studies Award Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 1995

Could the dodo make a comeback? What does science tell us about the sex in Fifty Shades of Grey ? Is giving up meat really the greenest option? Can you...

This book charts the history of the water catchments and water supply for the city of Melbourne, which has many unique aspects that are a critical part of the history...

The book titled Living Stones: St Swithun's Pymble 1901-2001: St Swithun's Pymble by the author Marcia Cameron. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Robert Dowling (1827-1886) holds a special place in the history of Australian art as its first locally trained artist. He is known for his portraits of colonial European society, Oriental...

Much of the Gothic Revival's modern appeal derives from furnishings, liturgical metalwork and other arts and crafts, all of which are illustrated in this book.