Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruc ...Show more
Written in Stone: Reading the Rocks of the Great Ocean Road by Philomena Manifold
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A celebration of the unique coastline of the Great Ocean Road and the deep time that has shaped it. Written in Stone takes the reader from the ochre cliffs of Torquay where 25 million year old fossils can be found, past the tip of Cape Otway where Gondwanan rivers have preserved dinosaur bones and on to ...Show more
Curious Voyages - A Collection of Astoundingly True Tales by Andrew Murray (Illustrator)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Over thousands of years the world was wide with wind-powered boats, one of man's most beautiful constructions, and sailors had to struggle in the age-old game of Man vs Sea. This collection of tales is not a history of sail, it's a voyage through centuries of curious sailing adventures.
Galah: Stories of life outside the city by Annabelle Hickson
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian
It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring stories from the coast to the f ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Old Vintage Melbourne, 1960-1990 by Chris Macheras
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne, this collection invites you again to turn back time and revisit the diverse past of the much-loved city of Melbourne. This captivating compilation of photographs taken between 1960 and 1990 provides a fascinating glimpse of a time that is familiar and yet different, w ...Show more
Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede Anthology by Judith Neilson Institute
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Nine Australian writers, mentored by nine experienced Australian journalists, developed stories that they knew needed to be shared. With direction from Amanda Hooton of GW, Claire Keenan explores Catholicism in rural Australia, ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story (Indie Book of the Year 2024) by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
For Social Betterment Social Work Education in Australia 1900-1960 by Jane Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia introduced professional education for social workers thirty years later than much of the developed world. It joined an international movement to set up the new profession and was helped by the well-established American and British social workers. As Australian social work education approaches ...Show more
Yeah, Nah!: A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are by William McInnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Join bestselling Australian storyteller William McInnes as he reflects on Australia's way of life and gives us his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. Whether we are bunging it on or behaving like a drongo, Australians have a turn of phrase for every situation that helps us. Our lin ...Show more
Retro Sydney by Nathan Mete
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A collection of beautiful photographs of Australia's first city that invites you to immerse yourself and revisit the cool, quirky, glamorous, exciting, menacing, and wonderful times of Retro Sydney.This collection of photographs celebrates the vibrant and exciting coming of age of Australia's first city ...Show more