Jimmy Sharman's Boxers: Australia's legendary travelling boxing troupe by Stephen McGrath
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his u ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Rogue Forces: An explosive insiders' account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan by Mark Willacy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award's Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Rogue Forces is the explosive first insiders’ story of how some of Australia’s revered ...Show more
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more
King of the Australian Coast by Marsden Hordern
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
"Phillip Parker King has been described as the greatest of Australia s early marine surveyors. But while the achievements of Cook and Flinders are widely known, this is the first telling of King s story.Unlike Cook and Flinders, King was Australian-born--the son of Philip Gidley King, governor of New So ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Listening to Country by Ros Moriarty
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Ros Moriarty is a white woman married to an Aboriginal man. Over the course of many visits to her husband's family, she was fascinated to discover that the older tribal women had a deep sense of happiness and purpose that transcended the abject material poverty, illness and increasing violence of their ...Show more
Error Australis by Ben Pobjie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
We're obsessed with reality television these days yet we so often neglect the greatest reality of all: the reality of our nation, and how it came to be. In Error Australis, TV columnist, comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie recaps the history of Australia from its humble beginnings as a small patch of r ...Show more
The Melbourne Tram Book by Dale Budd & Randall Wilson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This new edition of The Melbourne Tram Book is a gloriously colourful and compact tribute to Melbournes famous and iconic trams, one of the citys most enduring symbols. More than 200 photographs and illustrations show the trams in the streetscapes of today and yesterday.
Future In Flames by Clode, Danielle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
No other continent on earth is a prone to bushfires, over such a large area, as Australia. What is it about Australia that makes it so prone to fires? Have humans made thing worse, or better? This book intends to answer some of these questions and understand why, after so many years, people are still dy ...Show more
Outback Women's Stories: Amazing Australian Amazons by Paul Bugeja
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The word "amazon" generally conjures up images of wild and powerful warrior women, fighting off foes in some primitive matriarchal society where they rule over men who have been subverted to more menial roles. Outback Women's Stories is a compilation of significant Australian women of simple but importa ...Show more
Voyages to the South Seas by CLODE DANIELLE
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna. Lap rouse and Labillardi re, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge. This is the ...Show more