Australasian History

An important reckoning with Australia's unspoken history of slave trade. From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli As Australia...

THE ASTONISHING STORY OF ERIN PATTERSON AND THE MUSHROOM MURDER TRIAL THAT HORRIFIED AND ENTHRALLED THE WORLD On 29 July 2023 the family and friends of Erin Patterson sat down...

Jane Harper's new novel, The Survivors , now available for pre-order A best crime fiction book of 2019 pick in The Times A thriller of the year 2019 pick in...

Age range 6 to 9 Have you heard of the Great Southern Reef? Join Professor Seaweed and her friends Frankie and Sam to learn more about one of Australia's best...

Secrets. Glamour. Lies. Your new favourite twisty thriller was written by INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Rebecca Heath 'Pitch perfect!' Jo Furniss, author of All the Little Children A REMOTE ISLAND It's been...

A luscious survey of forty-five of the most interesting tropical houses built in south-east Asia and Australia over the last fifty years, arranged decade by decade. This stunningly illustrated volume...

The rich colours and lyrical words make this the perfect book to add to a bedtime routine. Acclaimed mother-and-son team Sally Morgan and Ezekiel Kwaymullina take readers on a journey...

'It deserves a place in every Australian kitchen' - Delicious Magazine Features a foreword from the bestselling author of DARK EMU, Bruce Pascoe. This gorgeous illustrated, informative and contemporary cookbook...

Step through the seasons with some of Australia's most interesting insects. Say hello to chirping cicadas, flashing fireflies, sneaky stick insects and burrowing bees in this adorable introduction to our...

The roast dinner remains a staple in homes and restaurants across the globe. It's a cooking technique that harks back to our earliest days of hunting and roasting meat over...

Australia's love affair with East Coast American architecture and interiors is one that inspires us to reinterpret the style in our own way, whether we live by the coast, near...

Filled with luminous screen prints and evocative prose, Colour Me celebrates every individual colour as well as the power of their combination. We are all different. But together we colour...

Great Properties of the Riverina and Upper Murray follows on from the bestselling Great Properties of Country Victoria and Great Properties of Tasmania, and tells the story of sixteen significant...

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches. Since...

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. A week after Pearl Harbor in December...

The first draft of this book was written under a tree on the slope of a sandhill where, for several years, Englishwoman Pat Lowe shared a desert camp with her...

The iconic Australian masterwork as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the...

'Every Time She Wakes is gripping, unsettling and impossible to put down. With each time loop, the tension escalates and the stakes become heartbreakingly personal. A brilliant race against fate...

In July 2023, in a quiet Australian country town, Erin Patterson - stay-at-home mother and true crime devotee - invited her husband's devoutly Christian family to lunch. Within days, three...

Belonging is a First Nations poetic reflection on Country and the everlasting ties that bind us. A lyrical narrative full of the eternal interconnectedness of our families: land, water, sky,...

WINNER, NSW Premier's Literary Awards - People's Choice Award SHORTLISTED, NSW Premier's Literary Awards - Christina Stead Prize SHORTLISTED, Nita B. Kibble Award LONGLISTED, Miles Franklin Literary Award Acclaimed novelist...

'Wood's best work yet a graceful and empathetic portrayal of one family seeking to understand itself.' - Australian Book Review 'Simple and real, this is a beautifully heavy and affecting...

After her father's death, Katrina Kittel opens his old Globite suitcase and finds tiny photos, postcards in beautiful handwriting from a mysterious Swiss woman, and memorabilia from his war. Katrina...

Being human is hard. From early childhood, we start to become aware of the difficulties we must all inevitably face. We will battle an inner critic across the entirety of...

Friendship with Lacey felt like a warm hand pressing very tightly against my throat. The difficulty breathing felt better than the chill of abandonment that overcame me every time she...

From Wall Street to the supreme court, how the world's largest banks control the money markets and crush competition In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money...

The 1960s are remembered as a time of change and upheaval throughout the Western world, including Australia. No part of the country changed more in that decade than the remote...

A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin awardwinning author Alexis Wright. First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve...

Longlisted for the 2019 Colin Roderick Award Born Ellie Nellie on an Aboriginal reserve in Western Australia's south west, she was nicknamed Ing by her family. Removed from her loving...

'Each protest has been a stepping stone to the next battle...' From the very first protest of January 26th as a Day of Mourning in 1938, to the Pilbara Strike...

*Winner of the CBCA 2020Eve Pownall Award for Information Books* *Winner of the Booksellers' Choice 2020Children'sBook of the Year Award* *Shortlisted for the 2020NSW Premier's Literary AwardsPatricia Wrightson Prize for...

'Galibaay had tricked him. That dillybag was full of honey. It stuck in his throat and made his neck flare out into a big red-and-yellow frill.' Lethal Lizards is the...

'With our grandmother we walk all the way to the peak of the mountain. Cold wind blows through our hair. "Yah Melaythenner, Peulinghenar," Grandmother calls. Hello Country. Greetings. We hear...

'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle's do not...

Age range 0 to 5 'Frogs like to bop. Can you touch the sky?' Is that you? by Gregg Dreise is a board book that encourages young readers to learn...

'It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go...

WWII 1942-Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and...

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...

A Home for Bilby is an engaging picture book that takes children on a journey through the Australian outback and the habitats of the animals that live there. Join Kangaroo,...

This is the autobiography of Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri, a Kwini man from the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. Ambrose speaks out honestly, without malice or accusation, on a number...

Age range 12 to 17 Autobiographical study by a celebrated Aboriginal poet and playwright, who writes of his boyhood in the south-west of Western Australia during the depression years of...

Bill Neidjie was born at Alawanydajawany along the East Alligator River, Australia, sometime between 1911 and 1913. He grew up on his Father's traditional country in the Northern Territory where...

'Honest and courageous . . . This book is the report card we've all known was coming.' - Gabbie Stroud, bestselling author of Teacher What happens when your first teaching...

The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War...

'The pace spirals and the twists multiply' S. R. WHITE , author of international bestseller Hermit The Dry meets The Hunting Party in this gripping thriller set in the isolated...

This is what a history of Australia looks like when it has Indigenous perspectives at its heart. For over 65,000 years, people have made this continent their own through language,...

Damien is convinced that this is the best job anywhere: beautiful skies, red earth, dramatic landings, treating families in remote communities. At a tiny, isolated hospital in central Australia, a...

Years later, when I found my mother, I asked, 'Why did you let me go?' My mother told me, in a very soft voice, 'My son, you were going to...