Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subseque ...Show more
The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 by Zachary Gorman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
How did Menzies develop as the giant of Australian politics? Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. As the nation's longest-serving prime minister, he transformed and ultimately dominated the political landscape, implementing policies that laid the foundations of modern Australia ...Show more
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate ...Show more
Australia Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Remember grabbing a copy of the late edition afternoon paper from the paper boy? Watching a Graham Kennedy skit on TV? Did you buy a 45rpm single or a 33rpm album at your local record shop? And play it on your record player? If you answered yes to any of these questions chances are you are part of the B ...Show more
Perth Then and Now by Richard Offen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Then and Now Ser.
Archival photographs of Perth have been carefully matched with specially commissioned colour photos to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city. Perth Then and Now accurately matches historic photographs of the city with specially commissioned contemporary views that show how each site looks ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to term ...Show more
Tobruk (75th Anniversary Edition) by Peter Fitzsimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941's Battle of Tobruk, in which more than 15,000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought in excruciating desert heat through eight long months, again ...Show more
Greek Cafes and Milk Bars of Australia by Effy & Janiszewski Alexakis (Leonard)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Photographs and cultural history
Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans by Clare Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's fi ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era by Babette Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Babette Smith traces the stories of hundreds of convicts over the 80 years of convict transportation to Australia, and rewrites the story of Australia's convict foundations, revealing the involvement of British politicians and clergy in creating a birthstain that reached far beyond convict crimes.