Australasian History

It's 1919. Corporal Joe Barlow returns from the Great War to his home in Oak Tree Place hoping only for peace and order, but this is denied him as he...

This is an exciting tale of the courage of 16-year-old Grace Bussell, an ordinary teenage girl who is thrust into an extraordinary situation when a steamship runs aground near her...

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

The book titled The Story of Australia: An Illustrated History For Young Australians by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Covers Australia's operatic fare during the 60 years from the death of impressario Lyster to the beginning of World War II.

Following the success of Murders that Shocked Australia comes this second edition. Revised and updated, it takes the reader through Australia's most challenging murders and personalities, from Ned Kelly to...

Fast Money 4 delivers a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute analysis of the dynamic Australian financial and investment landscape. In structuring the book, Edna Carew has taken into account recent developments such as...

'Not for profit' enterprises provide services enjoyed or depended upon by many Australians. But the charities, sports clubs, churches, community organisations, welfare groups, associations, unions, and foundations that draw on...

One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in NSW. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman...

The book titled Libba: Living on the Edge by the author Tony Liberatore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Winning the Indianapolis 500, the greatest spectacle in motorsport, has been a quest for Australians and New Zealanders since the first race in 1911. Seventeen have tried and two have...

ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and...

Collingwood Forever is the ultimate commemorative keepsake for all AFL and Collingwood Football Club fans. Relive the incredible journey to their 2023 AFL Premiership triumph with glorious, action-packed photos from...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards 'A profound meditation on forgiveness and forgetting . . . Dao's extraordinary debut novel combines fiction and history to chronicle his Vietnamese...

With new material reflecting on the changed state of the nation, this edition of the Walkley Award-winning The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis, one of our most respected journalists, will...

'This book is a great resource and every family should have one.' Kaarene Fitzgerald AC, Director, SIDS Australia Dear parents, Desperate to find a kid's birthday party venue that your...

This lavishly illustrated work takes the reader on a journey around one of Australia's most beautiful states. Areas covered include Adelaide, with its Mediterranean climate, the Fleurieu Peninsula, with its...

p>A beautiful pictorial book featuring some of the most amazing places on this continent/p>p>Whether it be outback, coastal or rural - each chapter starts with a brief introduction and is...

The "Baggy Green" is the official Australian cricket test team cap. Viv Jenkins, who has been the official photographer for cricket in Australia for the best part of 20 years,...

National Fictions is a study of Australian literature and film. It is also a study of Australian culture, viewing the novels and films as products of a specific culture -...

This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China...

"Inside the myth of Australia s economic superheroes." "Inside the myth of Australia s economic superheroes. We're living through the second longest boom in Australian history. You can't move for...

Ricky Nixon is the most powerful and influential AFL player manager of his generation. A fearless agent for change, he has represented many of the league's superstars over the last...

The Australian wool industry has seen boom times and busts, wars and droughts, political upheaval and market manipulation. Working his way up from jackeroo to chief executive officer, Alec experienced...

A tender, heartwarming novel of unlikely friendships and second chances, perfect for fans of Monica McInerney and Maeve Binchy. Vivian Molloy hardly expected to retire early from teaching, but for...

In 1853, a young American arrived in the new colony of Victoria hoping to make his fortune from the world's greatest gold rush. He soon realised that the real money...

Seeking ways to understand her chosen continent better, Belinda Probert bought a rural property outside of Melbourne to observe the land more closely and learn how to garden differently. How...

Our Bodies, Our Babies traces the struggle of women to change approaches to childbirth and to claim their right to choices in childbirth and breastfeeding. This is a wonderful book...

Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons 2008 brings together the best Australian political cartoons and illustrations collected by the National Museum of Australia in 2008. Cartoons from major city...

The book titled Glorious NZ Gardens by the author Telford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For nearly a year Sharyn Munro travelled through rural Australia, visiting the communities in coal-mining areas. She found a war zone. Here, literally at the coal-face, towns and districts are...

The book titled The Book of Australia: Almanac 1997-98 by the author Simon Blackall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Out of print for over 60 years Victorian Modern is to be republished by the Robin Boyd Foundation in October 2011.

What name could be a more apt description of Australia than 'The Land of Parrots', a name inspired by late sixteenth-century maps showing a southern region labelled 'Psittacorum regio'? This...

A stunning new edition of the art classic Papunya- A Place Made After the Story is a first-hand account of the Papunya Tula artists and their internationally significant works emanating...

The book presents a wide range of documentary and visual material, revealing the importance of the ornamental arts within urbanizing Australian society at the end of the 19th century.

Wharves to the World: The Development of Melbourne's World Trade Centre is a photographic chronicle of the history of the World Trade Centre and its surrounds. The book traces the...

Colonial architect John James Clark was fourteen when he began practising as an architect. By the age of nineteen he had designed the Melbourne Treasury, Australia's finest Renaissance Revival building,...

Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways in which we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterize Australian landscapes and how have they influenced...

An authentic and entertaining first-hand account of life in the Australian bush from the 1920s to the 1950s. Under the Mulga follows Jim Gasteen's childhood adventures, marriage and his life-long...

When Europeans first reached Australian shores, an expedient and long-held belief developed that Australian Aboriginal people did not have houses or towns. Instead it was believed that they occupied temporary...