Australia

In a journey that took five years to complete, property magnate Richard Buxton circumnavigated Australia by air and sea in an effort to raise public awareness and funds for research...

This authoritative alphabetical reference work covers every major development and significant figure in the history of Australian theatre, from the earliest colonial times to the present day.

In Walsh Street, Australia's most famous criminal family comes to life. A powerful Melbourne crime family. A teenage protected witness. The killing of two policemen. Terror. Violence. Loyalty. On a...

This book captures, both in words and stunning photographs, some of the biggest and most memorable moments in the history of Australian sport. They are moments that happened on the...

An Australian hero torn between family and country 'Put Les Darcy in a uniform and the men of Australia will march to hell behind him.' that was the message trained...

On Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, sacked the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict, as...

'It whisked me away on a much-needed holiday' Beth O'Leary 'I can't remember the last time a book made me forget I had a phone' Stacey Halls 'What an absolute...

Despite the veneer or ubrane ordinariness, Australia has never lost her reputation as a repository of mysteries. Learn what really happened the day evil stalked Adelaide oval, or what about...

"Reframing Darwin: Evolution and the Arts in Australia" is a book of essays about the impact of Darwinian thought on Australian art, science and culture, beginning with the voyage of...

GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR. 'An unrelenting page-turner' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END 'A triumph' THE i 'The real star is the...

Part thriller, part queer romance, Into the Mouth of the Wolf is a stunning, CBCA Notable YA novel from the award-winning author of Amelia Westlake . SHORTLISTED for Children's Book...

For Natalie Paull, baking is a gift. It's also a powerful elixir of pleasure, connection, generosity and joy. In Beatrix Bakes , Natalie indulges in baking's sweetest moments with more...

Men at War takes an intimate look at the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, which was formed in Victoria in 1940 as Australia entered the Second World War. In 1941 and...

From award-winning author, Jane Harrison, comes an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imagining of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. WINNER OF THE...

From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really...

This engrossing story by famous Australian author Ion Idriess is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King. At the age of 13...

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. This is the seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded:...

Tim Hurburgh's Tall Poplars:Tales of Tasmania's fabled River Derwent Valley provides a fascinating fresh take from the murkier days of Van Diemen's Land through to today's picturesque Apple Isle. Stories...

Anti-Racism Kit is the essential, comprehensive first guide to dismantling racism, created especially for Australian high school students. Written by two bright young Australian thinkers, the Anti-Racism Kit is a...

In Mabu Mabu , charismatic First Nations chef Nornie Bero champions the tastes of native flavours in everyday cooking by unlocking the secrets of Australian herbs, spices, vegetables and fruits....

In Australian Dreamscapes , Claire Takacs showcases the varied gardens found in the Australian landscape, from lush green oases to semi-arid settings. Claire profiles Australian gardens, gardeners and garden designers...

Places We Swim California is a travel guide that explores California's wilderness through swimming, documenting the state's best beaches, hot springs, rivers, lakes, waterfalls and canyons. This beautiful book is...

Undiscovered Tasmania is your travel guide to the real Tasmania. Beyond the usual tourist attractions, this small island is brimming with special places to see and experience, and locals Rochelle...

Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of...

An action-packed illustrated series for ages 8+, from the award-winning authors of Black Cockatoo and My Footy Boots. I'm about 35 metres out from the goal and, running on instinct,...

'The bravest thing God ever made,' said a British officer of the insubordinate Aussies at Gallipoli. And before the Normandy invasion, Field Marshal Montgomery's chief of staff remarked, 'I only...

WINNER: 2023 WA Premier's Prize for Children's Book of the Year HONOUR BOOK: 2023 CBCA Book of the Year, Eve Pownall Award From a leading expert and talented visual artist...

The award-winning bestseller that put Australian birds on the world map - nature and science writing at their best. Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds...

First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled...

Featuring plant and bird directories illustrated with superb colour photographs and line drawings, as well as comprehensive planting tables and expert advice, this book has all you need to create...

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD The most comprehensive one-volume book of identification that shows all Australian bird species, perfect for birders of all levels of expertise. Since its first...

A new path for Australia, as laid out by eminent economist and author of the bestselling Superpower Could Australia become a full-employment, renewable-energy superpower? Ross Garnaut says yes, and it...

A riveting expose of the global oil industry's multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to...

Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne's Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect...

A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most...

A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey through the Australian landscape and character. While...

Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited...

An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this....

In the Trenches of Hell. The story of the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers -...

'This country leans in on you. Like family. To my way of thinking, it is family.' The natural world, in Tim Winton's novels, is as much a living presence as...

The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house...

The fever that forever changed Australia The fever that forever changed Australia. David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to...

This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build...

An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...

B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge...

Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs alive and well wherever they are? Will keeping the Japanese, Korean...