Australasian History

The stories of the great Australian motorbike champions. For the love of freedom, speed and adrenalin. To be the quickest of all. Australia's love affair with motorcycle racing and its...

Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity. Robyn Annear's lively history...

'Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account . deserves to be widely read.'-Sun-Herald The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was...

The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played - or failed to play - in crucial World War II...

The voyage of the SS Derna in 1948 was a scandal that sparked an official enquiry when the ship finally docked in Australia. An overcrowded rustbucket that took months longer...

The book titled Wollongong by the author Alison Gibbs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Australian Sport through Time by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Hardcover and fully illustrated book profiling the top 50 most desirable golf courses in Australia. Compiled by Golf Australia magazine. Welcome to every golfer's 'must play' list. Great Golf Courses...

When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...

The Hon. John Howard MP, Prime Minister of Australia launched The Howard Factor on 2nd March at Parliament House in Canberra. John Howard's federal election victory over Paul Keating in...

Ever since colonial times, Australian writers have excelled in presenting war in all its aspects, drawing character as it emerges under the pressures of life and death struggle. Their gift...

HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into...

The book titled Australia in Old Maps 820-1770 : the Northern Approaches by the author Eric B. Whitehouse. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Produced for the Centenary of Canberra in 2013, Canberra Then and Now juxtaposes images of early Canberra with commissioned photography of the same places today. This anniversary publication includes a...

Invaluable and meticulously researched contribution. David Horner has done justice to a proud Regiment that has served Australia in peace and war for almost 150 years. Major General S.N. Gower,...

Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial...

The articles in this unique collection represent a decade of writing by Aboriginal historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays and interviews combine both the public and the personal in...

This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special...

A powerful and humane book, Healing Our History eschews rhetoric and cuts to the true story of race relations in New Zealand. A powerful and humane book, Healing Our History...

The book titled The Fighting First: Combat Operations in Vietnam 1968-69, the First by the author Lex McAulay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

During World War II Australia was under threat of invasion. Could Australia be invaded by the Japanese? Even with the heavy censorship by the government many certainly thought so. Stunned...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Best of Australia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what...

Take a trip down memory lane with Bob Byrne ... Remember loading up the back of the car and heading away with the family over the summer holidays? Being part...

'You and the machine become one. It gets to the point on the edge of a hard ride where there is a balance between taking your machine further and a...

It was John Wedge, Batman's private surveyor, who named the Yarra Yarra. In September 1835 he was at the Turning Basin with some Kulin and heard them identify the river...

Photographer Michel Lawrence has recorded the human face of multi- culturalism in Australia.

Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award's Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year...

'Variation' is a term that embraces difference, and is core to the excitement and uniqueness of art practice. This book gives much-deserved attention to the work of artists with exceptional...

Australians have long been told that they are natural gamblers; that they 'love to gamble'. The notion of the great Aussie gambler is the core of the 'luck myth' entrenched...

The Best Australian Essays showcase the nation's most eloquent, insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. The Best Australian Essays showcase the nation's most eloquent, insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. In her...

'I ask that if you were to read one nonfiction book this year, please make it this one.' Readings Monthly There is no farmers and others. If you eat or...

Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles...

Ken Eather was one of Australia's foremost soldiers. Serving in the pre-WW2 militia he was one of the first officers appointed to the AIF. He led a unit in the...

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...

'Us firefighters do more than fight fires. We also assist those who have just gone through what's probably the worst experience of their lives.' The devastating 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires...

A beer barrel full of yarns, laughs and beer-related facts, this is the perfect book to flip through while you're enjoying a cold one! Why is one of our prime...

The Outback has its own rules. Some are made to be broken. Some you have to write yourself. When 23-year-old Pip Newling arrived in the remote West Australian town of...

The book titled In over Our Heads: Lessons from the Excesses of the '80s by the author Joe Nagy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Manning Clark's History of Australia by the author Manning Clark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of Tom Hayson, a remarkable Australian who was born in a small bush town of Barraba in northern NSW to a poor migrant family just after WW1. He...

The book titled Australia's Wide World of Sports by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This millennium publication offers a definitive overview of the way in which Australian plants have been depicted over the past three centuries. It provides an insight into the relationship between...