Abandoned Melbourne: Lockdown by Gavin John
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Abandoned Melbourne shows Melbourne vacant, with the CBD’s places and spaces, customarily buzzing, rendered motionless and without life during the 2020 Covid lockdown. Melbournian landscape photographer Gavin John turned his camera and his focus onto vistas of a different nature and reveals downtown Mel ...Show more
Reading Like An Australian Writer by Belinda Castles (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is an ode, a love letter, to the magic of reading. To the spark that's set off when the reader thinks ... I can do this too. Here, twenty-six writers take us through these moments of revelation through the dog-eared pages of their favourite Australian books. These writers come together to draw kno ...Show more
Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia’s relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these critical events has never been more pressing.In Australia’s China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores thi ...Show more
Long Half-Life: The Nuclear Industry in Australia by Ian Lowe
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia has been directly involved in the nuclear industry for more than a century, but our involvement has never been comprehensively documented. Long Half-life tells the social and political history of Australia’s role, from the first discovery of radioactive ores in 1906 to contemporary contentious ...Show more
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station by Shannyn Palmer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern TerritorySome stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
On Our Doorstep: When Australia Faced the Threat of Invasion by the Japanese by Craig Collie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In 1942 Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese. This is what happened.
Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845 by Philip Jones
$65.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
George French Angas (1822–1886) was one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding colonial artists. As a young man in the 1840s he journeyed to Australia and New Zealand, where he excelled at capturing the minute detail of plants and people, objects and landscapes. The bush was his studio — he captured th ...Show more
The Ruby Princess by Duncan McNab
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia. Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the passenge ...Show more
Muster Dogs: The bestselling companion book to the original popular ABC TV series for fans of Todd Alexander, Ameliah Scott and James Herriot by Aticia Grey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An outback story of kelpies, red dirt and the future of a family farm. A farmer's best friend and arguably one of their most reliable workers is a good dog. Aticia Grey - Teesh as she is known to friends and family - picked up her first team of kelpies in 2013 and has never looked back. In her area of ...Show more
Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books convenie ...Show more
Larrimah: A missing man, an eyeless croc and an outback town of 11 people who mostly hate each other by Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A dying town, a missing man. One of Australia's greatest mysteries - two whodunnits, twisted together. Larrimah: hot, barren, a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of outback Australia. Where you might find a death adder in the bar and a spider or ten in the toaster. Maybe it's stupid to writ ...Show more