Australasian History

Jam is sweet but it can also burn. Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to...

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the bestselling and irresistible new novel from the author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies , Trent...

What happens when the past won't let go? Buried secrets rise to the surface in this rural-set romance and mystery from bestselling author Mandy Magro. Even after leaving small-town Wildstone...

From Gallipoli to Kokoda and beyond - the story of our greatest general and the power, politics and tragedy of command General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander in Chief of Australian...

Native title has often been one of the most controversial political, legal and indeed moral issues in Australia. Ever since the High Court's Mabo decision of 1992, the attempt to...

She yearns for adventure, but the road to freedom is paved with peril. The thrilling new historical adventure from a bestselling Australian author. Albany, Western Australia, 1881 Stifled by English...

A country town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come... The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her...

Welcome to Bundilla. A close-knit community where romance can blossom. The first two novels in the bestselling series from award-winning Australian author Alissa Callen. Snowy Mountains Daughter Small-town Bundilla is...

Contemporary furniture is the lingua franca of the industrialized nations. Through television, film and design periodicals, furniture's visual jargon is transmitted around the world. Contemporary furniture is criticised and discussed...

Typically, there s only one way to win by being the best. But there are countless ways of having victory snatched from your grasp. Remember Pat Rafter s 2001 Wimbledon...

The book titled Our Heart is the Land: Aboriginal Reminiscences from the Western Lake by the author Bruce Shaw. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Australian banks are riding high. Shareholder profits are at record levels. Senior executives are on champagne salaries and business has never been so good. But in the suburbs and in...

On modest Australian incomes, in a high interest environment, Jim and Anita Bell were able to pay off their first mortgage in three years. Since that time Anita has also...

Described as the swiss-army knife of contemporary Australian culture, containing just about everything (over 1,000 tips) a person aged 14-30 should be taught (but usually isn?t) in order to live...

In 2015, Amanda McClelland was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, in recognition of an extraordinary career dedicated to making a difference. As a nurse and a humanitarian aid worker she...

This comprehensive guide to the rainforest flora of Australia is packed with information on more than 300 commonly observed species from rainforests around the continent. Each plant is beautifully illustrated...

For a century and a half town criers walked the streets of Australian capital cities, regional centres, and country towns, ringing their bells and conveying their messages. Australia's first town...

People are fascinated by other people's lives: what they do, how they live, who they love, their successes and their blind spots. Biography has long been a popular literary genre...

** Shortlisted, The Age Book of the Year Award 2023, Non-fiction ** ** Shortlisted, The Danger Awards 2023, Non-fiction ** Nothing in the post-war decades reveals the underbelly of Australian...

From the William Hill Award-Winning Author of A LOT OF HARD YAKKA comes CRICKET'S GREATEST RIVALRY: A HISTORY OF THE ASHES IN 10 MATCHES by Simon Hughes. A fast-paced, distinctive...

Keating and his Party Room is the first comprehensive account of a full term of the proceedings of the Labor Party Room - the Caucus - where the Party's actions...

The Soul of the Outback explores Australia's outback, from Alice Springs to Darwin. Through photography, painting and drawings, local artist Mai Maddisson takes us on a journey that captures a...

'Why is it so hard for Church people to find the appropriate words that tap into Australians' search for something more? Why, too, would their words not be listened to,...

'Aborigines did not cause the extinction of the megafauna . . . and it is unlikely that they have caused the extinction of any element of the fauna and flora.'...

Where are the Careys and Kellys of yesteryear? What are the `Cowboy', `the Incredible Hulk' and `the Galloping Gasometer' doing these days? Jim Main takes us inside the locker rooms...

The attempted murder in 1984 of undercover policeman Michael Drury - shot while in his kitchen feeding his baby daughter - has been labelled the 'lowest of low' in Australian...

The book titled Front Line Despatches: Australians at War 1845-1972 by the author Nic Van Oudtshoorn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In photography, you don't get to have it all. You are always making choices, always making sacrifices. To capture the light. Tom's longest-standing commitment is his run-down house Mayfield, which...

The great majority of holidaymakers in Australia get home in one piece, but a handful do suffer fatal or serious injuries. See Australia and Die is about dangerous Australia. It's...

Redtails in the Sunset follows the story of an Aussie rules football team from Central Australia fighting to enter the game's final frontier and play in the Premier League in...

Engaging and enjoyable, and written for the novice and the expert alike, Australian History in 7 Questions explains how we became the nation we are today. 'If there are genuine...

Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes,...

A highly entertaining, scurrilous and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks. There are con men you fear and con men you hate,...

AUSTRALIAN TRAGIC ranges across our past and our present: the heartbreaking story of the fire at Luna Park; the unstoppable opportunist who snatched innocent men and women from Palm Island...

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'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.' Australia is dotted...

When Gordon Maitland's unique military career ended he had risen as high as possible and had received the then highest possible military honour in the Order of Australia. That was...

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the Exhibition: 'State of the Waratah' which was an official Olympic Arts Festival event.

Up until the 1970s, a large proportion of Aboriginal people in Australia had some experience in institutions as part of government assimilation and protection policies. By focusing on three communities...

Australian Cultural History is a 1988 text which opens up new ways of looking at Australian society, culture and history. The diverse and distinguished authors range across religion, literature, history,...

The book titled I Protest!: Fighting for Your Rights - a Practical Guide by the author Phil Thornton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand has for some time now been experiencing something of a 'golden age'. The richness of Australasia's philosophical past, though less well known, should also...

The right to vote is the most precious democratic entitlement, and Australia has a proud tradition of recently introduced legislation will effectively disenfranchise over 200,000 voters in future federal elections...

Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities will stimulate debate among many Australians about the kind of future we want for our country. It will engage planners and politicians, academics and activists,...