Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its histo ...Show more
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forest River Massacre by Kate Auty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920s In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people at Forrest River in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Towns & Pubs Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has been on yet another adventure, this time gathering more stories from outback towns and pubs; from the green fields of Tasmania to the vast red sands of Simpson Desert.The unique characters of the outback will touch your heart as Swampy presents all the drama and delight of life i ...Show more
Copyboy by Barrie McMahon
$0.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Short of a good murder, sin, sensation and sex in salacious detail were always standard fare for Perth’s Mirror newspaper. With the departure of American troops in 1946, new sources of scandal were needed. Straight from school Alf McGuinness lands a job with The Mirror as a copyboy and immediately find ...Show more
Len Beadell's Legacy: Australia's Atomic Bomb and Rocket Roads by Ian Bayly
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Combines a concise account of the history of the roads made by Len Beadell and the several men that comprised the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party, with a pictorial appreciation of some of the more scenic parts of these roads.
Big Mobs: The Story of Australian Cattlemen by GLEN MCLAREN
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Previously overshadowed in the public imagination by notions of American cowboys and the wild west, Australian stockmen are given the place they so richly deserve in pastoral and Australian history in this insightful study. From the lonely months on a long cattle drive to the boots they wore and the pla ...Show more
The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1815, a supervolcanic eruption led to the extraordinary 'Year Without Summer' in 1816: a massive climate disruption causing famine, poverty and riots. Snow fell in August. Lives, both ordinary and privileged, changed forever. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. The artist, John Constable, sought refuge ...Show more
Australians: Flappers to Vietnam #3 by Tom Keneally; Clare Drysdale (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australians
The outstanding final volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history takes up the story of Australia at the end of the Great War and explores its development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century Australia emerged from World War I into a decade of profound change ...Show more
His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: very good
A Man Booker Prize FinalistA New York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Book of 2016 by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday TimesA brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question th ...Show more
Kosciuszko by Nick Brodie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Australia's highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, is a dangerous place. Evan Hayes was an ordinary Australian battler. Hardworking, likable. Laurie Seaman was a world-wise American. Adventurous, affluent. When this athletic pair of cross-country skiers disappeared into the wilds of Kosciuszko they left a ...Show more
A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself: Personal Essays by LOWRY, BRIGID
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
If you're struggling to maintain grace and good humour amidst daily potholes and pitfalls, Brigid Lowry may be just the warm, wise and witty companion you need. Informed by contemporary psychology and Zen Buddhism, Brigid's essays offer reflections on everything from friendship to grief, and from gratit ...Show more
Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more