Australia Day by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
"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
That Was My Home - Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs by Denise Cook
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
That Was My Home explores the hidden histories of the Noongar camps around Fremantle, Swanbourne and Shenton Park in the suburbs of Perth along the Swan River. The focus is the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, a time when many Noongar people lived with their families in camps. The voices of Noongar people, juxta ...Show more
The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia by Ian Lowe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
"Can we reinvent The Lucky Country? In 1964, Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck' in his iconic book.a Now, more than five decades later, internationally respected scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe shows that little has changed a ...Show more
Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers by Meg Foster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ and their bushranging brethren are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were white men. And not all ...Show more
The Red Chief by Ion Idriess
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Aboriginal legend of the Red Kangaroo, Cumbo Gunerah (1680-1745), who as a result of his bravery becomes leader of the Gunnedah tribe. The story originated from Stan Ewing's diary who spoke to King Bungaree (1780-1830), the last Aboriginal chief of the Gunnedah tribe in New South Wales.
Tears of Strangers: A Family Memoir by Stan Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Where do I belong? Who am I? The blood of my fathers links me to a much older place and time. I've walked in the footprints of my ancestors: I've sat by the riverbank at night and imagined them around me. I am all that they have made me. Journalist Stan Grant was born in 1963, a son of the Wiradjuri ...Show more
Black and Blue: a memoir of racism and resilience by Veronica Gorrie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force. A proud Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply com ...Show more
The Rabbit King - Jack Mccraith and His Rabbit Empire by Catherine Watson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
At the age of 15, Jack McCraith reached a momentous decision; "Everyone knows how to catch rabbits," he said. "I'll learn how to sell them." On his first buying trip, he biked into the countryside and bought two rabbits which he skinned in the back yard and hawked around the neighbours. Within 20 years ...Show more
For The Term Of His Natural Life by Clarke Marcus
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: The\Australian Experience Ser.
For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal (1870-1872) and as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history. At times relying on seemingly implausible coincidences, the story follows the fortun ...Show more
Born in 1953?: What Else happened? by Ron Williams
$21.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Born in Series
This is the fourth of the 1950s and the tenth book overall to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia - one for each year from 1939 to 1968. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to make you ...Show more