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The Crying Years: Australia's Great War
Author: Peter Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 The Great War continues to fascinate us all. In this original approach, prize-winning historian Peter Stanley cleverly weaves his...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Qantas: The Flying Kangaroo
Author: Neil Montagnana-Wallace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 No symbol better conveys the intrepid spirit of Australia than the flying kangaroo. Whether it's glimpsed on a red-eye flight to...
Borders Battlers
Author: Michael Sexton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 It's the 1986 tour of India, and Australian cricket is reeling from the loss of key players to retirement...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians
Author: Royce Kurmelovs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Australia's mining boom is...
The Flying Optometrist
Author: Joanne Anderton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Age range 4+ The Flying Optometrist travels in his little red aeroplane from his practice in the city to a remote...
Sharks A History of Fear in Australia
Author: Callum Denness Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For as long as people have lived in Australia, the shark has loomed large in our fears. From the...
The Birth Of Melbourne
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts...
Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers
Author: Meg Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They're remembered as folk heroes...
The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories
Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
Gallipoli
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
Author: Robyn Annear Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan...
A Fortunate Life
Author: A B Facey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of...
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. The thrilling...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics
Author: Inga Clendinnen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the...
Smoke and Mirrors Stuart Rattle and Michael ONeill - A Tragedy of Love & Murder
Author: Robin Bowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Interior designer to the rich, the fabulously talented and flamboyant Stuart Rattle, and his loyal partner Michael O'Neill were to...
A Bastard of a Place
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A Shorter History of Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians A broad, concise...
Ned Kelly
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he...
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
Author: Chloe Hooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at...
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again. It is the driest, flattest,...
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties
Author: Meredith Burgmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Sixties - an era of protest, free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert...
Breaker Morant: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet, murderer or hero?
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Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most people...
French Connection: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions
Author: Alexis Bergantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize The French have been integral to the Australian story since...
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)
Author: Don Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us...
Defeating Terror Behind the hunt for the Bali bombers
Author: David Craig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In 2002 Australia was rocked by the terrorist bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. Then,...
True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As...
The Birth Of Sydney
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's...
Terra Australis
Author: Matthew Finders Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 282 Introduced by Tim Flannery The vast interior of this new continent was wrapped in total obscurity; and excited, perhaps...
The Jerilderie Letter
Author: Ned Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and...
True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his...
Australia & the Pacific: A history
Author: Ian Hoskins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ** Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize ** ** Winner, Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2023...
Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second: the first cricket World Cup and an Ashes Series: LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
Author: Christian Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Exquisite.' - Gideon Haigh 'Magical, a head rush, a marvel.' - Rahul Battacharya 'Startlingly original.' - Matthew Engel In 1975 Patrick...
Araluen
Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless...
Beneath the Southern Cross
Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and...
Kokoda
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The Strength of a Nation: Six Years of Australians Fighting for the Nation and Defending the Homefront in World War II
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Playing Beatie Bow
Author: Ruth Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A thrilling adventure story for children and young adults by Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow follows Abigail as she...
Growing Up at Government House
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Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear
Author: James Curran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ** Shortlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award ** Australia's relationship with China is one of the dominant...
The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life
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Australians at War: A Pictorial History
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Robert Menzies' Forgotten People
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The Spirit of the Digger
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A Merciful Journey
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Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero
Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements uncover the extraordinary story of one of Australia's greatest military leaders. Tongerlongeter is an epic story...