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1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

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Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. An extraordinary narrative...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

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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

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

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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

The Birth Of Melbourne

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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

Gallipoli

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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

A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

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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

The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

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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...
Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

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Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

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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...
Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly

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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

A Shorter History of Australia

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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

True History of the Kelly Gang

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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...
Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three

Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three

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Author: Peter Temple Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 318 The third novel in the Jack Irish series won the 2000 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel, and...
The Birth Of Sydney

The Birth Of Sydney

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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 Making of Australia

The Making of Australia

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Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable...
The Jerilderie Letter

The Jerilderie Letter

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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...
Terra Australis

Terra Australis

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Author: Matthew Finders Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 282 Introduced by Tim Flannery The vast interior of this new continent was wrapped in total obscurity; and excited, perhaps...
Araluen

Araluen

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Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless...
Beneath the Southern Cross

Beneath the Southern Cross

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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...
Playing Beatie Bow

Playing Beatie Bow

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Author: Ruth Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A thrilling adventure story for children and young adults by Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow follows Abigail as she...
Illywhacker

Illywhacker

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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

Bliss

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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...
Jack Maggs

Jack Maggs

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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

A Long Way from Home

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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

An Angel In Australia

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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

A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics

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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...
My Life as a Fake

My Life as a Fake

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling'...
Theft: A Love Story

Theft: A Love Story

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of Peter Carey's most searingly inventive novels yet. Wise, funny, profound. Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous'...
The Tax Inspector

The Tax Inspector

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A wickedly funny satire on modern life and families. The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since...
The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and...
His Illegal Self

His Illegal Self

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Peter Carey is at his inventive, brilliant best in His Illegal Self, a novel about a family who, once...
Amnesia

Amnesia

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In Amnesia Peter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy...
Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics

Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 247 A wonderful novel by one of Australia's most loved and awarded writers, long out of print and now revived...