Australasian History

: 100 Years of Sheffield Shield Cricket

In 1959 David Hill s mother a poor single parent living in England reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was...

*Make sure you read Trent Dalton's irresistible new novel, LOLA IN THE MIRROR, out now* 'Electric' The Times 'Thrilling' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Joanna Cannon THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A MAJOR...

*Make sure you read Trent Dalton's irresistible new novel, LOLA IN THE MIRROR, out now* 'Electric' The Times 'Thrilling' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Joanna Cannon THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A MAJOR...

'After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to admit that I am distressed by what it is becoming. Under siege from commercial...

Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...

In late 1999 the world watched as a small country became the world's newest nation amid a frenzy of destruction and killing. Now, Deliverance tells the inside story of East...

This work collects more than 20 interviews with prominent Australians. The contributors discuss their beliefs and perceptions about where Australia is heading, and their hopes and fears for the nation....

The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia's original peoples? The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries,...

Charley Boorman is back in the saddle for a brand-new, adrenaline-fuelled adventure! He begins his journey racing north from Sydney up the Gold Coast, where he hitches a ride in...

The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and their Settlement in Australia.

New edition of a classic memoir with new Introduction, bibliography, biographical index and four new previously unpublished photographs. 'Hughenden', the seaside mansion of Kathleen's grandparents, provided the 'solid bluestone foundations'...

A REMOTE HOTEL. FIVE GUESTS. ONE MURDER. A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES 'S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS During...

The outback begins somewhere beyond - beyond the black stump, backo' Bourke or just a bit further on...Yet the outback is the very heart of Australia, an unforgettable landscape. It...

A REMOTE HOTEL. FIVE GUESTS. ONE MURDER. A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES 'S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS During...

In the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, around 200,000 visitors from Australia landed in Britain. As members of the colonial elite, they sailed to the Old Country to experience their...

Within a week of birth Andrew Zagami had to undergo brain surgery. As a teenager he suffered a fractured spine. Later in life he was diagnosed with cancer on three...

this is a book about: the re-building of Australian democracy the re-invention of business and community in a global age and, the re-engagement of government in its task of serving...

These are some of Australia's finest thinkers analysing the key issues that have had a major impact on Australia over the last turbulent decade, collated by our most influential think...

In 1971, a hopeful, young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later,...

'This is a personal account of life at the top that will charm the general reader and the political tragic alike' Weekend Australian Anna Bligh knows something about hard knocks...

In September 2009 Sydney businessman Michael McGurk was executed in a professional hit on the driveway of his North Shore house. With a single shot to the head the property...

Andrew Fraser's bestselling and controversial true-crime memoirs are now being adapted into an exciting new television series called Killing Time! After being convicted and disbarred, Fraser became the confidant of...

Strewth! Are we there yet? People of all ages travel or dream of travelling around our outback areas by car/caravan/campervan and are keen to read about people who have actually...

A wartime hero refuses to pick up his weapon. Koalas begin a mass exodus. A writer finds her voice again. New Australian Fiction showcases the strength and diversity of Australian...

Recounts a bygone age when links to Britain were strong and the public service played a vital role in post-war Australian reconstruction. The book contains entertaining vignettes of many distinguished...

On the streets, under the ground and on the information superhighway, radicals and rebels have made this town their own. The acclaimed Radical Melbourne revealed the hidden history of the...

In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton shows that China's growth model is now reaching its limit, and the world's most populous economy faces a challenging transition. In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton...

The Australian Liberal Party is in deep crisis. Losing the 'unloseable' election in 1993 gave it an unenviable record of five successive losses, nearly reversing the record of successes set...

The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and...

Out of nowhere in 2004, this obscure religious sect burst on to the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big...

Jennifer Isaacs has been a close observer of the artistic renaissance across Aboriginal Australia since it began in the early 1970s. In Spirit Country she outlines the forces that propelled...

This work reviews in detail the relations between mining and indigenous peoples in diverse national, political, and cultural settings. With case studies from five nations and covering gold, uranium, diamonds,...