Australasian History

**Highly Commended, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Non-Fiction** There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and something...

A heart-pounding, high-stakes, high-adrenalin relentless blast of an action-packed thriller, from Gabriel Bergmoser. the bestselling author of The Hunted and The Caretaker . After a year of searching, rogue ex-cop...

SPIRIT SISTERS was inspired by the scores of women who would preface their story with 'I've hardly told anyone this, but...'. Scratch the surface and the words would tumble out;...

Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda: if you've ever experienced the primal rush of riding a motor bike, the pain of crashing, the...

How are we to think about nature and the environment? The idea of nature as it relates to culture, society and humans has always been in constant flux and highly...

The book titled Transformers: Retribution by the author David J. Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Australian Birds: Simply Classified: Simply Classified by the author Donald Trounson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Forgotten Forests - a Field Guide to Victoria's Box and Ironbark by the author Ian McCann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Ron Brooks grew up in East Gippsland, a country boy with a yen for drawing and observation of the life around him. He became an acknowledged master of the picture-book...

Espresso chronicles Melbourne's coffee history and the personal desires and fortunes of many of the city's coffee industry pioneers. This updated edition includes exciting new stories from more of Melbourne's...

This wonderful guide features a range of walks across the state. Written by three of Melbourne's best known walking personalities, this guide features 96 walk variations in 50 areas across...

The book titled Timeless Machines: (Veteran and Vintage Motoring in Australia and New by the author Pedr Davis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Writing from the Fringe: Study of Modern Aboriginal Literature by the author Mudrooroo Narogin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled History of Road Trains in the Northern Territory, 1934-88 by the author John Maddock. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Profiles extraordinary Australian women who travelled to France at different times through history and who formulated their impressions-in fiction, diaries, letters, autobiographies-between 1880 and 1945.The book explores how the women...

Abstract Earth will be released to coincide with a long-overdue retrospective exhibition of one of Australia's foremost landscape photographers, Richard Woldendorp. It showcases over 27 years of Woldendorp's best aerial...

In the tradition of Don't Let Her See Me Cry and The Long Way Home, a starkly beautiful and inspirational true story of the power of love - and how...

What does it mean to be on land taken from others? 'What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how...

**Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2025, Australian history** Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker. There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of Australia from iconic...

This scholarly and highly illustrated study of Fred Williams was originally published in 1980, and was the first comprehensive and fully researched attempt to inform a wider public of the...

Heartlines presents the poetry of Australian Instagram sensation Gemma Troy, one gorgeous verse at a time. Gemma Troy spent her childhood hunting for gold with her father, camping in fern...

A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts that...

A profound and beautiful masterpiece about a lifelong friendship between two writers. In this shimmering mosaic of a novel, a writer reflects on the final days of her friend's life....

This book focuses on the interactions between people, sheep and nature in the run country of Tasmania. It addresses the relationship between production and conservation in natural landscapes grazed by...

Energy and life and the body. Disappointment and passion and pride. The inexorable labour of working toward the just. The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of...

There is more to Frances Sinnett's secret pain than the loss of her children - including the author - to an orphanage. Battalions of sorrows begin when her grandfather at...

The book titled Football Grounds of Melbourne by the author Santo Caruso. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the very beginnings of Intimate Opera Group in 1957 when the camaraderie of Putting on Opera kept a mob of dedicated amateurs operating on no money and gallons of...

BELLE BEAUTIFUL AUSTRALIAN HOMES VOLUME IV is the latest hardcover publication from the team at Belle, Australia's leading interior design magazine. This volume takes readers on a grand tour of...

A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before...

World War Bloody Timor gives a revealing insight into the extraordinary life of the everyday digger and service in a conflict that was far from ordinary. My name is Peter...

The story of the land rights battle of the Larrakia people for Kulaluk, near Darwin, in the 1970s.

A collection of quotations from notable Australians who have suffered major public defeats or setbacks, yet in some manner, carried the day. From Ned Kelly's words at his sentencing, to...

Raymond Priestley was the first salaried Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. It was a time of great upheaval, as Australian universities reshaped and reasserted themselves after the Great Depression....

The book titled Far From Where? by the author Finnane Antonia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When hunters and gatherers arrived in Australia many tens of thousands of years ago, their burning, hunting, and vegetable gathering practices caused substantial change in the continent's vegetation. In the...

The book titled Always a Lady: Courageous Women of Colonial Australia by the author Nance Donkin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A delightfully heartwarming story of four or more funerals and at least one wedding, from the bestselling author of Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year 'There are a lot of...

'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...

The book titled Airforce Australia by the author George Odgers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Known by the contemporary press as Big John, Forrest was as large in reputation as he was in stature, and achieved a level of fame and popularity unique in the...

The book titled Gold! by the author John Nicholson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a re-assessment of Australian cultural life. The collection features essays by many of Australia's leading cultural commentators on the pursuits and concerns that give meaning and significance to...