From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must w ...Show more
The Honest History Book by Alison Broinowski (Editor); David Stephens (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia - mostly for its impact on our citizens a ...Show more
The Pacific - In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, ...Show more
Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England ...Show more
The Pacific: in the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill (PB) by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of peop ...Show more
Frederick Whirlpool VC by Alan Leek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The true story of the first soldier in Australian uniform to be presented with the Victoria Cross.
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Truth of the Palace Letters, The: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 by Paul Kelly; Troy Bramston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the long-suppressed correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II, written during Kerr's tumultuous tenure as Governor-General of Australia. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of ...Show more
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven bio ...Show more
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forest River Massacre by Kate Auty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Girt by China: Power Play in the Pacific: Australian Foreign Affairs 17 by Jonathan Pearlman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What challenges does Australia face as the world's great powers battle for a foothold in the Pacific?The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the growing rivalry and increasing tension in the Pacific as it becomes a stage for a great-power contest to gain influence and a strategic positio ...Show more