Banjo by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The remarkable life of Australia's greatest storyteller A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson is rightly recognised as Australia's greatest storyteller and most celebrated poet, the boy from the bush who became the voice of a generation. He gave the nation its unofficial national anthem 'Waltzing Matilda' and treas ...Show more
A Fortunate Life by A B Facey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
Trains and Railways of Australia (Collector's Edition) by Powe Jim
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Compact Edition Ser.
Respected railway photographer Jim Powe has released his exclusive and unique collection of Australian railways from the 1940s to today. Over 400 pages and many colour photographs show the glory and drama of Australian rail travel. Many photographs have never been seen before. Organised into states, eac ...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
Inside Out : An Extraordinary Story of Ambition, Addiction and Redemption by Greg Fisher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
When Greg Fisher was a child his mother said he'd either be very successful or end up in jail. After a comfortable upbringing in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Greg Fisher did what he thought a good Jewish boy should do. He married, had a child and started making his way up the corporate ladder. But after co ...Show more
Ultimate Road Trips: Australia by Lee Atkinson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Ultimate Ser.
Australians have always loved a good road trip, whether it's a leisurely Sunday drive through wineries or to a beach near a major city, a quick weekend getaway into the mountains or roughing it on a remote outback track. And hitting the road is a great way to spend our holiday time with family and frien ...Show more
Renewal: Five Paths to a Fairer Australia by Sophie Cousins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The COVID-19 pandemic has with great speed fundamentally altered the world in which we live. The changes it has wrought are of a type and on a scale unseen by most people alive. We are realising the truths we understood as immutable, the basis of our social order, are not rigid and inevitable, but const ...Show more
The Catch: Australia’s Love Affair With Fishing by Anna Clark
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In every coastal town in Australia, there's a bat shop and a boat ramp. In laundries and garages around the country, fishing rods are strung up waiting for their next outing. Walk over a bridge, look across to a wharf and there will be people casting a line. Many people have a special fishing spot, and ...Show more
Ozonomics by CHARLTON ANDREW
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
"Inside the myth of Australia s economic superheroes.""Inside the myth of Australia s economic superheroes. We're living through the second longest boom in Australian history. You can't move for talk of the budget surplus. The Liberals proclaim their impeccable economic record; Labor counterclaim that t ...Show more
Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology - Bounty's Enigmatic Voyage by Alan Frost
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
For the past 225 years, the story of the Bounty's voyage has captured the public's imagination. Two compelling characters emerge at the forefront of the mutiny: Lieutenant William Bligh, and his deputy - and ringleader of the mutiny - Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian. One is a villain and the other ...Show more