Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Cradle by Rob Blakers (Editor); Chris Bell (Photographer); Grant Dixon (Photographer)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Photos by Chris Bell, Rob Blakers, Grant Dixon, Peter Dombrovskis, Dennis Harding and others. Informative text by Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick.
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
Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia: A Groundbreaking Collection of Torres Strait Islander Voices, Past and Present by Samantha Faulkner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"My people are expert navigators, adventurers, innovators, ambassadors, teachers, storytellers, performers, strategists, chefs and advocates for change. The blood runs deep when I reflect on the past and the present and imagine what our future might look like." -Leilani Bin-Juda What makes Zenadth Kes/ ...Show more
Comfort and Judgement: Nineteenth Century Advice Manuals and the Scripting of Australian Identity by Gene Bawden
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Art History Ser.
My journey to this book is the culmination of a long-held fascination with the history and currency of Australias domestic interior. Having been born in a remote, desert-bound Queensland town, I have felt its power as a solace; a retreat from the extremities of the Australian environment. The interior p ...Show more
Wild Forest by Robert Blakers (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
WILD FOREST is a stunning and timely new photographic book about Tasmania's unprotected forests, focusing on the Florentine, Styx and Weld Valleys. It features the work of eleven Tasmanian photographers, a foreword by Christine Milne and essays on biodiversity, green carbon and water by Professor Jamie ...Show more
Great Expectations Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia by Patricia Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Memoirs from the Corner Country: The Story of Mary Hunt by Harold Hunt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
‘Nanna was an imposing woman. She was large and dark, with strong arms and silver hair that fell to her waist ... Her scars bore testament to her physical adventures...yet she remained the epitome of femininity and strength.’ — Gail Hunt, youngest daughter of Harold and Nellie HuntThe Corner Country is ...Show more
Life As We Knew It: the extraordinary story of Australia's pandemic by Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
It was never part of the plan that Australia would be locked down and shut off from the world for two years. But when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in 2020, and the bodies began piling up overseas, Australians took unprecedented steps to avoid a catastrophe heading their way. The country’s near-eliminat ...Show more
Family: Stories of Belonging by Alaina Gougoulis, Ian See
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An uplifting collection of personal essays celebrating the various forms of family, featuring contributions from some of Australia's most exciting writers and thinkers The storybook idea of family-dad, mum, kids, gran and grandpa-doesn't always reflect the bonds that tie us most closely to one another ...Show more
Povo by Adam Novaldy Anderson (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Thirty-seven writers from First Nations, migrant and refugee backgrounds reveal the true wealth and beauty of Australia’s cultural melting pots.Australia is often referred to as The Lucky Country — a land of economic opportunity and vast natural resources. But how does this myth square up against the tr ...Show more
Corners of Melbourne by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Melbourne's favourite historian, as seen in the acclaimed documentary, The Lost City of Melbourne, takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to be.What better defines a city than its stre ...Show more