Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman by Barbara Minchinton, Philip Bentley
36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego. Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Caroline arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Le ...Show more
Unconventional Women The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia by Sarah Gilbert
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The lives of the women who joined a closed convent in Melbourne in a time of great upheaval In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who the ...Show more
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A gripping account of the paths that led postwar Russian migrants to Australia - and what they found when they arrived.More than 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after the Second World War - yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in E ...Show more
Weird Crap in Australia Volume II
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The book you hold in your hands (which doubles as a self-defence weapon against the monsters within) is the accumulated research from Year Two of the Weird Crap in Australia Podcast, with easy-to-read sections and reference materials to help on a deep dive of all our topics.Inside this volume you’ll dis ...Show more
Weird Crap in Australia Volume IV
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
It's 1985 in Australia and a deranged psychopath dubbed 'Mr. Cruel' stalks Melbourne's suburbia, while a mad bomber targets Sydney's Family Court judges and, just for laughs, Paul Hogan conceives of Australia's most endearing icon: Crocodile Dundee. These tales and more are included in Volume III of th ...Show more
Australia's Most Bizarre Crimes by Peter Coleman
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
True tales of crimes so bizarre you won't believe them. True tales of crimes so bizarre you might not believe them. The mysterious disappearance of thousands of false teeth, international travel via the postal system, doughnut delivery heists, clowns terrorising a neighbourhood, the theft of a three-sto ...Show more
A Rat of Tobruk by Mike Rosel
34.50 AUD
Category: Australian
Lieutenant John Rosel won a Military Cross for displaying 'calmness and outstanding leadership' when his platoon became surrounded at a critical point in the siege of Tobruk. He led the defence of several vital outposts against numerous attacks by the troops of General Rommel. His son Mike has written n ...Show more
TRACY - 50 Years, 50 Stories
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
50 stories from survivors of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974.Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a s ...Show more
The Maher Cup - A Social History of Football in the Group 9 Towns, 1920-1971 by Neil Pollock
65.00 AUD
Category: Sport
The Maher Cup was a rugby league (originally rugby union) challenge cup contested between teams from the New South Wales South West Slopes and northern Riverina between 1920 and 1971. The towns involved were Cootamundra, Tumut, Gundagai, Temora, West Wyalong, Young, Harden-Murrumburrah, Junee, and Barme ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived f ...Show more
Mutineers: A True Story of heroes and Villains by Robert Hadler
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The story of five young Australian sailors seeking adventure in a far off war who fell foul of British Imperial authority and sparked one of the most controversial events in the annals of the RAN. Mutineers explores the use and abuse of power by our military and political leaders at a critical time in o ...Show more
Turning the Tide by Michelle Ford
34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Against the backdrop of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the 1980 Moscow Olympics was always going to be political. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser wanted Australia’s Olympic athletes to boycott the Games, in line with the USA, but many of the athletes had a different view and compe ...Show more