Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women w ...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
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
Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...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.
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
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-si ...Show more
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more