Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First Fleet and founded Sydney. Through meticulous res ...Show more
ANZAC Sniper: the Untold Story of One of Australia's Greatest Soldiers by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The extraordinary story of Stan Savige - from Gallipoli marksman to WWII General and the founder of Legacy 'Stan Savige had been on Gallipoli for just two weeks, in the trenches firing at Turks less than 20 metres away. But Sniper's Ridge was a different proposition. Killing took on another dimension. ...Show more
The Bulldog Track - A Grandson's Story of an Ordinary Man's War and Survival on the Other Kokoda Trail by Peter Phelps
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival. March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found ...Show more
Frontier by Henry Reynolds
$19.75 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Three themes run through this work: widespread violence on the frontier; the pervasive impact of racism on colonial society; and the absolute importance of land ownership. Considered together, they provide a picture of the Australian frontier experience as it was revealed in the relations between a new ...Show more
Mandatory Murder by Steven Schubert
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A compelling true story of homicide and injustice in an outback town At first it looked like a swag, said the grader driver who found the body just off the road outside the outback town of Katherine. Police identify the dead man as Ray Nicefero, who'd recently appeared in court for aggravated assault an ...Show more
Gems of a Generation - Heartwarming by TRETHOWAN-JONES Sue
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Gems of a generation: the beading girls provides an exciting snapshot of the baby boomer era, historically important because of the introduction of the contraceptive pill.The era is illuminated through fifteen heartwarming and candid stories of unique women who meet each week to make jewellery. Their li ...Show more
On a Wing and a Prayer: The Race that Stopped the World by Diane Websdale-Morrissey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Race that Stopped the World
In 1934, Melbourne's Lord Mayor announced a London-to-Melbourne air race to celebrate his city's centenary. The audacious plan captured imaginations across the globe: newspapers and magazines everywhere were filled with it; the world's pilots scrambled to get sponsorship; and the organisers scrambled t ...Show more
After Before Time by Robbi Neal
$27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to the other end of mainland Australia to a remote Aboriginal community. They planned to stay for twelve months. Seven years later, they are ...Show more
Reckoning: The forgotten children and their quest for justice by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The story of how David Hill and the other Forgotten Children took on the the institutions that tried to break them - and won. The Forgotten Children was David Hill's heartbreaking account of the abuse that he and other 'orphans of empire' survived at the Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales. Part ...Show more
Events that Shaped Australia-Updated Ed: The events in this book have all, in a significant way, shaped our history, attitudes and culture by Waterkeyn; Lewis; Baldersone; Bowan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The events in this book have all, in a significant way, shaped our history, attitudes and culture. Not many nations can remember their own birthday, in Australia’s case 1 January, 1901 – the first day of the twentieth century. So it’s perhaps not surprising that many visitors to the Antipodes express wo ...Show more
Bypass: The Story of a Road by Michael McGirr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
"All the dirt on the Hume Highway" (Shane Maloney)The Hume Highway runs from Sydney to Melbourne. Like all the great roads of the world, it is longer than it is wide. Flabby, unfit and forty, Michael McGirr decided to ride a pushbike from one end to the other. For most of his life, he had regarded the H ...Show more
Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore by Harvey Broadbent
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This book by Harvey Broadbent, a leading authority on the Gallipoli campaign and producer of the acclaimed ABC documentary Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore, seeks to convey the story of Gallipoli to Australians of all ages. On 25 April, 1915, Allied troops stormed the cliffs of Gallipoli. Twenty-eight thousan ...Show more