Australasian History

Chopsticks or Fork? is a collection of stories and recipes from Chinese restaurants in regional Australia, based on the six-part ABC series created by Lin Jie Kong and Jennifer Wong....

Inside and Out is the inspiring story of one of Australia's all-time sporting champions: AFLW icon and basketball legend Erin Phillips. In this honest and revealing memoir, Erin candidly looks...

Top Walks in Australia 2nd edition is a completely updated guide featuring the best walking tracks across Australia. Australia is a mecca for bushwalkers - there are walks crossing every...

A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed writers. It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb...

Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he goes on an Australian beach adventure in this lift-the-flap board book! Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he goes on an Australian beach...

'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me...

First published in 1974, Into the Hollow Mountains was a landmark book featuring black-and-white images taken by Robert Ashton around the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, alongside original writing from local...

Winner of the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Set amid the striking landscapes of the East Kimberley, The Stranger Artist is an evocative and enthralling account of a...

'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led...

Intrepid Australia is your inspirational guide to discovering the most engaging and unique experiences from across the country, for locals, first-time visitors and returning international travellers alike. Whether it's an...

Fully revised and updated, Top Walks in Tasmania 2nd edition is the perfect travel companion for any explorer. Experienced travel writer Melanie Bell has crafted the perfect guidebook that details...

How an ancient land became a great democracy. 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative ' Geoffrey Blainey, historian Australia is one of...

'What a treat! Brutal truths and bombshells galore. Profound reflections on life, longing and the legacy of Bob. It's like a long Friday lunch that you never want to end....

The perfect companion based on the SBS TV show Great Australian Road Trips . Hit the open road alongside four beloved personalities as they journey through the country's most iconic...

Stories of courage and conviction from the environmental frontline With a foreword by Geraldine Brooks. For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who...

Love, mythology and magic collide in a delicious, action-packed new romantasy series from Australian author and award-winning podcaster Olivia O'Flynn, for all fans of Sarah A Parker, Carissa Broadbent and...

WINNER OF A 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR ABIA Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars. This anthology has them all. With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa...

Discover why we must protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change. The Great Barrier Reef is a wonderland of colour beneath the waves. The largest coral reef in the...

Love is hard to tackle in this enemies-to-lovers football rom-com for fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexis Hall. Two teammates get off on the wrong foot . . . but...

Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Where'd You Go Bernadette in this witty novel about coming of (middle) age and discovering that you...

When the redoubtable Miss Phryne Fisher begins receiving threatening letters, she enlists the unflappable apprentice Tinker to investigate. But soon her lover Lin Chung becomes another target as the harassment...

The heartwarming new rural romance from the bestselling author of Back to Birdsville. Still heartbroken after the death of her twin brother, Dr Bella Grey moves to Lightning Ridge for...

'This book is a miraculous event.' - Elizabeth Gilbert, from the foreword A transformative path for women to reclaim their power in a world all too eager to strip it...

The beloved Australian classic, published in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time Miles Franklin's debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn - closely...

The perfect book for kids learning about Ned Kelly and his gang. The perfect book for kids learning about Ned Kelly and his gang. Ned Kelly was a notorious bushranger....

On 26 January the convict transports moved into their new home as a handful of Aborigines on the shore set up a horrid howl and indicated by angry gestures with...

Amalia's life runs like clockwork: school, family book club, hanging out with her best (and only) friend Mae. It's comfortable in its predictability. So when Mae announces she's ready to...

A young Aboriginal man and a white police officer face each other in a house in the desert. The violence that passes between them carries the pain and anger of...

This book tells the story of Bali the "paradise island of the Pacific" its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world. Bali is a perennially popular...

'Could not put this down! Excellent story telling, had me absolutely hooked! Will be recommending this to everyone who'll listen.' Reader review You're almost certain your daughter didn't kill the...

'A ruthlessly efficient, consistently surprising whodunnit. The depiction of the glowering inferno is so realistic you're surprised to find your eyebrows aren't singed' Mark Sanderson, The Times A town under...

The moving story of an Indigenous woman who beat disadvantage and violence to become one of Australia's most influential political voices. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was nine months pregnant and due...

Nick Arley's motorcycling journey began racing around paddocks on an old Honda. From the moment he first rode a motorbike at age eleven it was destined to become a lifelong...

'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back,...

It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth-century Australia, but it very nearly collapsed in the face of monumental obstacles. The year was 1870, and mail took six weeks...

Buckle up! The time machine awaits! Join twelve-year-old Violet, her dog Tassie and her new friend Thyla - the ghost of the last Tasmanian Tiger - on a wild ride...

SHORTLISTED: 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers SHORTLISTED: 2024 Readings Children's Prize Most kids meet their parents when they're born. All they need to do to impress them...

When an unassuming young Melbourne woman bumped into a handsome naval lieutenant in a Colombo hotel swimming pool in 1926 she would never have dreamed of one day being the...

In the seven years since the 'Trip In A Van' family set off on their first adventure, they've covered tens of thousands of kilometres and become Australia's most popular travelling...

When dehumanisation and destruction become the norm, the cycle must be broken. For over twenty years, Ittay Flescher has worked as an educator, journalist and peacebuilder in Melbourne and Jerusalem....

They're all killers, but only one will resort to murder. The stunning new novel from international bestseller Kayte Nunn, for all fans of Lucy Foley and White Lotus . Newly...

Winner of the 2020 Davitt Award for True Crime/Non-fiction. Against all the odds, Australia held a royal commission into the banking and financial services industries. Its revelations rocked the nation....

The true story of one of Australia's top cops for readers of I CATCH KILLERS and THE GOOD COP Nick Kaldas is a cop's cop. From investigating war criminals to...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 The powerful, untold story of two of the three members of iconic Australian band Silverchair. It all began in...

**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime** Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members....

A record of Irish transporation and how the women who left shaped Tasmania. On 2 September 1845 the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land, with 138...

Putting culture back in Agriculture. A young, entrepreneurial Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future....

A brand new Very Hungry Caterpillar lift-the-flap adventure featuring a world of wonderful animals - exclusively for Australia! Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he explores Australia and makes lots...