Australasian History

Sydney is surrounded by some of Australia's most beautiful national parks and wilderness areas, and one of the world's most spectacular coastlines. Details of over 250 amazing places to swim,...

The book titled Heroin Crisis: 20 Key Commentators Discuss the Issues and Debate by the author David et al Pennington. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This book provides a defence of the economic rationalist vision, bringing together prominent economic rationalists and providing them with an opportunity to defend their world-view over a range of issues.

'An absolute must-have for Australian parents navigating the digital world.' Libby Trickett We want our kids to grow up valuing themselves and to become confident, kind and curious individuals. The...

'Stories drawn from the very soul of football and written from the heart. In Martin Blake's hands these iconic moments are vividly captured and celebrated as a timely reminder of...

'Roland Perry shows the true picture . . . enjoyable, clearly argued, comprehensive, and highly readable.' - Michael McKernan, Australian Book Review 11 March 1942: The Japanese have stormed the...

Dad likes rules. Mum likes order. My siblings like breaking both. Leon is having a bad time - his best friend Jacob has moved to Alaska, he's not allowed to...

After missing his eagerly awaited trial to play for the Under Sixteens Firsts, fourteen-year-old Harry Portelli has no choice but to play with the worst training team in the school....

How has Australian political life become so personal, emotional and autobiographical? In Performance Politics , historian and speechwriter Joshua Black provides an eye-opening account of how Australian politicians have become...

The Anzac legend has shaped Australia's national identity for more than a century. Yet many experiences of war do not fit comfortably within this. In Challenging Anzac , leading historians...

In a powerful work of memoir, history and biography, Jane Messer retraces the tragic and hopeful steps of her Jewish German grandmother, Bella. From pre-war Berlin to Tel Aviv to...

A new vision for Australia's relationship with the Pacific Australia has a long history in the Pacific. Many Australians might have forgotten it, but the region has not forgotten us....

Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages. Australia has a long cinema history - starting with the world's first feature film, The Story of...

This book reviews the unusual life of a very private Australian hero, champion tennis player John Bromwich.

The extraordinary true story of courage under fire and survival during one of the deadliest wartime attacks on Australia - the sinking of the hospital ship, the Centaur - and...

A compelling insider's view of the modern RAAF. AIR FORCE tells the action-packed, inside story of the modern Royal Australian Air Force, from East timor and the Bali bombings to...

A stimulating collection of visual imagery, Picturing Australia is a volume of stories: of adventure, near tragedy and deliverance, of success, failure and ultimate triumph, that are a testament to...

When the Wet comes to Wyndham, bones wash down with the loose shale of the surrounding Bastion ranges. Year round, lost spirits wander this tiny port town on the northern...

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This book should be of interest to critical readers of Australian poetry and literature.

James McAuley brings the work of this poet and critic face to face with a range of deconstructive and feminist readings. It is a contentious work, not at home with...

A.D. Hope has long been Australia's most internationally renowned poet. This study seeks to read Hope's poetry and criticism in terms of several overlapping contexts: critical debate about Australian poetry;...

"Security and defence" provides a comprehensive in-depth study of Australia and the Asia--Pacific region, with a fresh approach which counters the traditional Euro- and American-centric view of strategy and defence...

On a triangle of land that points out to sea at the mouth of the Swan River is Fremantle's heritage district, the West End, renowned for its colonial architecture. Although...

The book titled Nature'S Plenty: A History of the City of Whittlesea by the author Mike Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Meet Rebecca and Hannah: inseparable sisters, until a betrayal tears their relationship apart and spins their lives in different directions. Rebecca thinks the past is behind her. She has spent...

Acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson - author of the award-winning Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm - pieces together the life of Penelope Lucas and the pivotal role she...

'In Estensen, Flinders has at last found his Boswell.' Paul Brunton, The Weekend Australian Estensen's book is a work of painstaking scholarship, worn lightly it will be an enduring contribution...

WINNER OF A 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR ABIA Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars. This anthology has them all. With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa...

A captivating debut poetry collection from the 2024 black&write! Fellowship winner. - you as, and in relation to, all things - at all times ma-li is the luminous debut poetry...

The book titled QBD Long Road to Changi by the author Peter Ewer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the 19th and early 20th century, painters and photographers from many countries travelled for inspiration to the Islamic worlds of Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and Palestine. Published...

When loyalty becomes a burden, how do you learn to let go? Frogsong is a tender and delicate tale of love and addiction from one of Australia's brightest literary talents...

Recognises and celebrates the work of one of Australia's most significant and engaging artists and is the first major book of his work. Born in England in 1929, Larter moved...

In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own...

This collection by Australia's leading writers, scholars and activists discuss the ways in which we record, preserve and sometimes re-create our histories and how the power of memory and the...

Some of Australia's leading historians present new perspectives on social and cultural life in the 1950s. The 1950s is usually treated in the popular media as a metaphor for an...

Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British...

Streeton's letters express his interests and anxieties about his work, show his development from a romantic youth to a weary old man, and provide an insight into Australian society and...

This book is intended for students of art history; Australian art; aboriginal art.

A debut Australian romantic comedy with the wittiest banter you'll read all year - for readers of Emily Henry and Zoe Foster Blake. Telling the truth was never part of...

A dazzling, bravura collection of stories from one of Australia's most admired multi-disciplinary artists. From the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2026 Can you sever a...

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