The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
The Yarra Valley and Surrounds by Korneila Freeman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Yarra Valley and surrounding areas - with its misty mornings, vineyards of gold, giant trees and unique attractions - is a place of wonder and inspiration. This beautifully produced book includes stunning photos and historic information about all of the points of interest in the Yarra Valley from th ...Show more
Dunnies, Loos and Longdrops by Baglin, Douglass Yvonne Austin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Dunnies, Loos and Longdrops - whatever you call them, they're a fact of life and often a challenge to the more creative amongst us. Zany, improbable, ramshackle, extraordinary, this book is a fascinating pictorial collection of the dunnies, loos and longdrops stumbled upon in interesting and out of the ...Show more
5 Little Ducks : 5 Wayibu Dulum (PB) by Aunty Gail Smith, Sue Hodges Productions (Created by); Aunty Gail Smith (Translator)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Our Flag, Our Story: The Torres Strait Islander Flag (HB) by Bernard Jnr Namok, Thomas Mayo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Our Flag, Our Story shares an essential piece of Australian and Torres Strait Islander history, accessible for all ages. Age range 5 to 12‘We are many different people in Australia, and we all live in one big country. What may seem like a simple flag to some people, has given all Torres Strait Islanders ...Show more
Australian Bush Pubs 3/e: A Celebration of Outback Australia's Iconic Watering Holes by Craig Lewis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This popular visual pub crawl across outback Australia is lavishly illustrated with striking and fascinating full-colour photographs. It features an eclectic collection of historic outback watering holes, including such classics as Queensland’s famous Birdsville Hotel and New South Wales’ characterful S ...Show more
Australian Wildlife Activity Book by New Holland Publishers
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Kids love activity books and this carefully selected fun book with colouring images, mazes, jokes, riddles puzzles is perfect to keep them entertained for hours. Fun and educational.
The Killer's Game: Murder, Lies and Stolen Lives by Jane Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Exposing Captain Starlight's twisted life of crime and deceit. Who was 'Captain Starlight'? When a respectable public servant dies suddenly under suspicious circumstances, the authorities are baffled. Who really was the dead man? Was he an Irish nobleman fallen on hard times - or a conman, a forger, ...Show more
Australia's Trail-Blazing First Novelist: John Lang by Sean Doyle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Writer, journalist, barrister, larrikin'Who was the first Australian novelist?John Lang, born in a Parramatta pub in 1816 with the convict 'stain' upon him, was a singular character. The first native-born person to have a novel published, he was also a newspaperman, a classical scholar and translator, ...Show more
Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
Mr Todd's Marvel: How one man telegraphed Australia to the modern world by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1855 Charles Todd had a bold dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to connect it to the world. By 1870, Singapore had joined the global network: now for Australia. Todd and his men succesfully erected thousands of telegraph poles - one every 80 metres - across land that was relentlessly in ...Show more