Great Expectations Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia by Patricia Clarke
19.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
The First Matildas: The 1975 Asian Ladies Championship by Greg Downes
34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The First Matildas is the story of 16 women who played for Australia in the 1975 Asian Cup Ladies Football Tournament, which was a turning point for women's football in Australia. The First Matildas is the story of the women who played for Australia in the Asian Cup Ladies Football Tournament held in Ho ...Show more
Formula One Down Under: Australian Grand Prix history by .
39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The Australian Grand Prix is the crown jewel of local motorsport, it's also the gold standard by which Formula One GPs are judged. Each year since 1985 the Formula One circus has pitched its tent in Australia for an annual round of the World Championship. Formula One was an immediate hit in Adelaide, sp ...Show more
Bradman vs Bodyline: The Inside Story of the Most Notorious Ashes Series in History by Roland Perry
24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The definitive story of the most controversial chapter in the history of Australian and English cricket, the notorious Bodyline series, by Roland Perry, author of Sir Donald Bradman's authorised biography, The Don. 'Roland Perry is gloriously readable, always thoughtful.' Wisden The 1932-33 Ashes was th ...Show more
Australian POWs: The untold stories of WWI by David Coombes
12.00 AUD
Category: Military
"Comrades in distress we were, and it was now that one felt the existence of a brotherhood that establishes itself in circumstances of this kind ... A few of the men are very dejected, and appear to be losing all interest in themselves, their habits and practices not being approved by the majority. In s ...Show more
Australia's Original Languages: An introduction by R. M. W. Dixon
32.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Non-Fiction | Series: An Introduction
An introduction to the languages of Aboriginal Australia that explains their distinctive features accessibly for readers who have no previous experience with learning another language, and shows how language reflects traditional culture. 'A must read for all who would like to understand the languages a ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the highly acclaimed story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land – a unique window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers. ‘How to sum up this story? It’ ...Show more
Australia & the Pacific: A History by Ian Hoskins
39.99 AUD
Category: History
There are many ways to present a history of Australia and its Pacific neighbourhood, though there have been remarkably few attempts to do so. Had I worked as a reporter, administrator, aid worker or entrepreneur my insights would be very different. So, too, if I were a missionary or the son of the same. ...Show more
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
55.00 AUD
Category: History
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more
Murder in the Colony: South Australian homicides, 1836-1886 by Paul Tucker
49.95 AUD
Category: History
When South Australia was first established in December 1836, it was meant to be the perfect colony. Barely six months after proclamation, the state's first murder was recorded.Murder in the Colony presents the details of all 391 reported murders in South Australia from 1836 to 1886, and is a fascinating ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sag ...Show more
A Good Sheep Run by Graham Hannaford
49.95 AUD
Category: History
Graham Hannaford's book explores Scottish settlement in the Australian colonies.