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Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
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
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...
Gallipoli
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
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
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 Fortunate Life
Author: A B Facey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics
Author: Inga Clendinnen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the...
A Bastard of a Place
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Ned Kelly
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...
A Shorter History of Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians A broad, concise...
True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As...
The Birth Of Sydney
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's...
The Jerilderie Letter
Author: Ned Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and...
Australia & the Pacific: A history
Author: Ian Hoskins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ** Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize ** ** Winner, Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2023...
True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his...
Beneath the Southern Cross
Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and...
Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers
Author: Meg Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They're remembered as folk heroes...
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero
Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements uncover the extraordinary story of one of Australia's greatest military leaders. Tongerlongeter is an epic story...
Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear
Author: James Curran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ** Shortlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award ** Australia's relationship with China is one of the dominant...
Illywhacker
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Peter Carey's brilliant, hilarious, Booker Prize-shortlisted Illywhacker is the novel that brought him to international intention. Herbert Badgery is...
Bliss
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes...
The Undesirables: Inside Nauru
Author: Mark Isaacs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 When it comes to asylum-seekers on Nauru, we learn only what the government wants us to know. In the...
Bert Hinkler
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 562 The thrilling life of Bert Hinkler, Bundaberg boy, who grew up to become a pioneer of aviation, Mussolini's favourite pilot, dubbed...
Jack Maggs
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The...
A Long Way from Home
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is...
An Angel In Australia
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a haunting and evocative tale of murder and loss of innocence in...
A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics
Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Australian literature's strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist. It is the duty of a good child to...
Blue Collar Frayed: Working Men in Tomorrow's Economy
Author: Jennifer Rayner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us,...
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
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Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia
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Kokoda
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The Myth of the Great Depression
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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
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Australia 1901 - 2001: A Narrative History
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Australians at War: A Pictorial History: 2008
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Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
Author: Nicholas Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books...
In The Line of Duty: A tribute to Australia's fallen police officers
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Flynn of the Inland
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An Indelible Stain?
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The Original Australians: The story of the Aboriginal People
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Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man In The World
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Old Days, Old Ways: Stories from my radio days in the bush
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Towong Hill
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Weevils in the Flour An oral record of the 1930s Depression in Australia
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Sydney's Century
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