Fire: A Collection of Stories, Poems and Visual Images by Delys Bird
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A superb and necessary anthology of literature, images and commentary on our relationship to fire in its many manifestations. The works collected here are confronting, challenging, vital and also healing.
The Personal History of William Buckley: Murrangurk among the First People by Robert Larkins
$44.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
As a British soldier who fought against Napoleon, William Buckley served capably and truly but a drunken escapade led to his transportation to a short-lived settlement in Australia, and once there to his daring escape from custody and thirty years of isolation among the First People of the region, who s ...Show more
Royal Australian Air Force History - 1921-1996 by Chris Clark; Alan Stephens
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This three-book box set brings together the three official histories produced by the Royal Australian Air Force since 1991, covering three distinct periods of its history since its inception in 1921. The first of these titles, The Third Brother, was written by Dr Chris Clark and originally published in ...Show more
Australian Foreign Policy - Relationships, Issues, and Strategic Culture by Michael O'Keefe
$64.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
How does Australia's unique geographical, cultural and historical position influence its approach to foreign policy? What key challenges does Australia face on the world stage, and how can it overcome them? Reflecting the messy reality of foreign policy decision-making, this book helps you to understand ...Show more
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wante ...Show more
Wandering with Intent: essays by Kim Mahood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt -- and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Aust ...Show more
Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Kinglake-350 to VKC. Urgent, do you read me? The fire’s here now. God help us. Kinglake-350 is a masterpiece of writing about family, community, country life and what happens when a day of ultimate terror arrives. Adrian Hyland takes a dramatic and compelling sequence of events on that day and weaves th ...Show more
A1 fold AIATSIS map Indigenous Australia by Aboriginal Studies Press
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
ASP's best-selling publication. An attractive educational tool which aims to represent all the language groups of Australia's Indigenous people.
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more
The Maddest Place on Earth by Jill Giese
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Gold-fuelled Melbourne was booming, but dwelling in the fault lines of the proud young colony was an alarming fact Victoria had the highest rate of insanity in the world. The true story of colonial Victoria's quest to cure insanity unfolds through the lives of three English newcomers an artist, a doctor ...Show more
In the Name of Theatre - The History, Culture and Voices of Amateur Theatre in Victoria by Cheryl Threadgold (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Part One: The history of amateur theatre in Victoria, commencing in 1788 in New South Wales, from Melbourne in 1842 and working through decades to modern day, based on an award-winning PhD thesis. Live cultural performances presented by First Nations People for over sixty years are respectfully acknowle ...Show more
The Story of Australia by Louise C. Johnson; Tanja Luckins; David Walker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The Story of Australia provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia's history and geography. An island continent with distinct physical features, Australia is home to the most enduring Indigenous cultures on the planet. In the late eighteenth century newcomers from distant worl ...Show more