The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train bef ...Show more
1788: Text Classics by Watkin Tench
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Text Classics
"I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius." In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Sydney Cove with the First Fleet. This curious young captain of the marines was a natural storyteller ...Show more
Walking In The Light by Ken Duncan
$65.00 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Panographs Publishing Ser.
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You Talk, We Die: the battle for Victoria's first safe injecting facility by Judy Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'If not us, who? If not now, when?' You Talk, We Die is a highly personalised account of inner-city residents uniting in desperation to change their state government's response to a major health problem- people struggling with drug addiction.Heroin addiction and its tragic consequences are a key feature ...Show more
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of ...Show more
Betoota-isms by Betoota Advocate
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Betoota-isms is a deep dive into Australian culture, invention and creativity with a complete record of 'English' as it is used from the Member's Box of the MCG to the change rooms of the Betoota Dolphins rugby league club. Discover the meaning of the Michelle Pfeiffer (the Pfizer). Identify, with conf ...Show more
After Australia by Sweatshop Anthology
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: edited Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Austral ...Show more
Floating Brothel by Sian Rees
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
In July 1789, 237 women convicts left England for Botany Bay in Australia on board a ship called The Lady Julian, destined to provide sexual services and a breeding bank for the men already there.This is the enthralling story of the women and their voyage. Based on painstaking research into contemporary ...Show more
The Big Book of Great Australian Bush Yarns by Graham Seal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Two of Graham Seal's bestselling collections of stories from around Australia, now in one volume.
100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From the ghostly black horse of Sutton Forest to the butcher of Adelaide Street, a haunted Brisbane lift to the chilling experiments carried out by Doctor Blood of the North Kapunda Hotel, Australia abounds in spooky stories that are all unnervingly based in fact and tied to real places to visit or avoi ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$21.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
The Ferals that Ate Australia: From the bestselling author of The Dogs that Made Australia by Guy Hull
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia's feral nightmare Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected Australia and its unique fauna. But a little over two hundred years ago a foreign power took possession and brought with it the foreign animals that now domina ...Show more