Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, th ...Show more
Not Always Diplomatic: An Australian Woman’s Journey through international affairs by Sue Boyd
29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service. A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service.'An engaging account of life at the coalface by one of Australia's most active and effe ...Show more
Australian Film, 1900-1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production by Andrew Pike
40.00 AUD
Category: Film
Revised edition of this 1980 publication, considered the bible of reference works to the films of this era. Pike and Cooper's work discusses almost five hundred films made during the first eight decades of film-making in Australia. Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush provides a new foreword.
Australasian Music, at Home and Abroad by Sarah Kirby & John Gabriel (eds)
44.00 AUD
Category: Music
Combining approaches from Western art music, First Nations music, pop music, studies of contemporary community practice, and anthropological and ethnomusicological field work, Australasian Music, At Home and Abroad presents peer-reviewed chapters that critically reflect on Australasian music-making in t ...Show more
Grief and beauty by Franklin, Annie; Patel, Anita
45.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Grief and Beauty by south coast artist, Annie Franklin, and Canberra-based writer, Anita Patel, arose from the personal experience of the 2019 -20 bushfires. This beautiful limited edition book tells a story (in paintings and poems) of the impact of those fires. It portrays the changes in the forever a ...Show more
Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being by Hermina Burns
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Much more than a muse; Barbara Tucker was in fact a vital partner in the artistic success of her famed husband. Barbara Tucker- The Art of Being presents a multifaceted view of Tucker and the life she made with her artist husband Albert. Inspired by accounts of family, friends and admirers attending he ...Show more
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions by Adam Kuper
55.00 AUD
Category: History
This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and artifacts, their dioramas, their special exhibitions, and their arrays of skulls and skeletons.Originally created as colonial enterprises, what is the purpo ...Show more
Mr Todd's Marvel: How one man telegraphed Australia to the modern world by Adam Courtenay
34.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1855 Charles Todd had a bold dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to connect it to the world. By 1870, Singapore had joined the global network: now for Australia. Todd and his men succesfully erected thousands of telegraph poles - one every 80 metres - across land that was relentlessly in ...Show more
My Darlinghurst by Clark, Anna, Kemmis, Gabrielle, Pietsch, Tamson
49.99 AUD
Category: Queer Non-Fiction
Growing up in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs in the 1980s and 90s, I remember the pull of Darlinghurst. As a teenager, I would catch the 380 bus, get off at Taylor Square and dive gratefully into the slipstream broadmindedness — of lives lived imaginatively.Darlinghurst, a triangle of 80 hectares, sits on the ...Show more
The Ship Beneath the Ice - The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition.'As ...Show more
Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain by Kristen Alexander
44.99 AUD
Category: Military
During the summer and autumn of 1940, the Germans launched their Luftwaffe campaign to gain superiority over the RAF, especially Fighter Command. They were not successful, and this defeat marked a turning point in the Allies' favour. This is the story of eight Australian fighter pilots engaged in the Ba ...Show more