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
Balgo: Creating Country by John Carty
$89.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
In the early days we did painting. Cultural way. For ourselves.Then on the mission Sister Alice was working with the young men and women, like Gracie Green and Matthew Gill. We did a lot of landscapes at the start. Then after that people did a lot of paintings for the church.Then we decided we gotta do ...Show more
Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...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
How Frogmouth Found Her Home (Aus Lit) by Ambelin Kwaymullina
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Frogmouth isn't like the other birds. She doesn't want to live in the trees. Frogmouth is in search of something more.
Mamang (Noongar & English) by Kim Scott; Iris Woods; Jeffrey Farmer (Illustrator); Helen Nelly (Illustrator); Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Staff (Retold by); Yibiyung Winmar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Ser.
A brave young man travels the seas in the abdomen of a large whale ('mamang'). The man squeezes the heart of the whale and the old song he sings spurs the whale on to take him on a very special journey. The whale transports him far west of his home country, where his life is changed forever. *** Mamang ...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
Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art by Kerry Gardner
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Before the winds of World War I blew Europe apart, a rowdy and radical group of Australian artists would gather in the salons of Paris and London to embrace new ways of painting and seeing the world. By 1914 twelve of them had shown their works at the Venice International Exhibition, now known as the Ve ...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.