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Book Club Box - Fiction

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Join our amazing Book Club community in 2025 with our Book Club Box. Book Grocer's Book Club Boxes contain 12 handpicked fiction titles, individually wrapped and labeled for each month...
The Rush to be Rich: History of the Colony of Victoria, 1883-89

The Rush to be Rich: History of the Colony of Victoria, 1883-89

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Geoffrey Serle Format: Paperback...
Sport and Racing in Colonial Melbourne

Sport and Racing in Colonial Melbourne

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Gillian Hibbins Format: Hardback...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories

Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories

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Author: Renee Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and we march...
The First Fleet: The Real Story

The First Fleet: The Real Story

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Alan Frost Format: Paperback...
An Anzac's Story

An Anzac's Story

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Roy Kyle Format: Paperback...
So Monstrous a Travesty

So Monstrous a Travesty

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Ross Mcmullin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 This book explains how the...
Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues

Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues

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Author: H.S. Valley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What happens when your enemy becomes your friend ... with benefits? Red, White and Royal Blue meets The Magicians...
Firestarter: Me, Cricket and the Heat of the Moment

Firestarter: Me, Cricket and the Heat of the Moment

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Author: Ben Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Ben Stokes is not cast in the same mould as the vast majority of English cricketers. Fiery, combative, gladiatorial...
Original Cat, Copy Cat

Original Cat, Copy Cat

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Author: Sarah Kurpiel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 Pineapple loves being an only cat-and then Kiwi comes along. But despite the chaos and the annoyances, Pineapple soon realizes that...
Listen for the Weather

Listen for the Weather

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Author: Justine Delaney Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Every act has a consequence. Every marriage has a breaking point. Beth Rogers and her family have settled...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it,...
Alfie's Big Wish

Alfie's Big Wish

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Author: David Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Age range 5-8 "The other kids playing were bigger you see, 'Why is there no one the same size as...
Alfie's Search for Destiny

Alfie's Search for Destiny

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Author: David Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40
The Mark of the Wagarl

The Mark of the Wagarl

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Author: Lorna Little Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 28 Maadjit Walken is the Sacred Rainbow Serpent. She is the mother spirit and creator of Nyoongar Country in the...
Do Not Go Around the Edges

Do Not Go Around the Edges

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Author: Daisy Utemorrah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: I am the native cat, I dance everywhere. I hop, skip and jump. I jump on the flat stone and...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

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Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

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Author: Mark O'Connell, LCSW Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
Seagull Seagull

Seagull Seagull

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Author: Kieran Rynhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A new gift edition of James K Baxter's classic poems for children, illustrated by Kieran Rynhart. The poems in The Tree...
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)

The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)

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Author: Don Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us...
Playing Beatie Bow

Playing Beatie Bow

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Author: Ruth Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A thrilling adventure story for children and young adults by Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow follows Abigail as she...
Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

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Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in...
Somme: Into the Breach

Somme: Into the Breach

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Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material...
The Journals of Captain Cook

The Journals of Captain Cook

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Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
What a Flanker

What a Flanker

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Author: James Haskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, and straight talking but also articulate and insightful - I am just hugely fond...
Theft: A Love Story

Theft: A Love Story

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of Peter Carey's most searingly inventive novels yet. Wise, funny, profound. Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous'...
The Jerilderie Letter

The Jerilderie Letter

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Author: Ned Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and...
A Difficult Young Man

A Difficult Young Man

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Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Sonya Hartnett Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956 Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen...
Jack Maggs

Jack Maggs

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The...
The Tax Inspector

The Tax Inspector

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A wickedly funny satire on modern life and families. The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since...
The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and...
His Illegal Self

His Illegal Self

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Peter Carey is at his inventive, brilliant best in His Illegal Self, a novel about a family who, once...
Amnesia

Amnesia

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In Amnesia Peter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy...
A Long Way from Home

A Long Way from Home

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is...
True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his...
Bliss

Bliss

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne

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Author: Robyn Annear Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan...
A Shorter History of Australia

A Shorter History of Australia

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians A broad, concise...
A Is for Australia

A Is for Australia

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Author: Frane Lessac (Author/Illustrator) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 A factastic tour of Australia from A to Z with award-winning author and illustrator Frane Lessac. Now in...
Girl Stuff 13+: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years

Girl Stuff 13+: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years

$39.99 AUD$33.99 AUD
Author: Kaz Cooke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The must-have girls' guide for the teen years, fully revised and updated edition 2019/2020. With more than 600 pages...
Rugby: An Anthology: The Brave, the Bruised and the Brilliant

Rugby: An Anthology: The Brave, the Bruised and the Brilliant

$35.00 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Brian Levison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Inspiring and irreverent by turns, Brian Levison's new anthology has drawn on rugby's wealth of excellent writing. Frank Keating,...
The Making of Australia

The Making of Australia

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Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

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Author: Inga Clendinnen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the...
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country

Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country

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Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again. It is the driest, flattest,...
Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three

Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three

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Author: Peter Temple Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 318 The third novel in the Jack Irish series won the 2000 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel, and...
Araluen

Araluen

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Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless...
Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The incomparable Oscar and Lucinda won Peter Carey his first Booker Prize, and the Miles Franklin Award. Oscar Hopkins,...