Gold Fever : A Rollicking History of the Australian Gold Rush by Geoff Hocking
$19.99 AUD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Australia
Gold Fever tells the story of the heady days following the discovery of gold in Australia. When, in 1851, the focus of the world suddenly turned to the hills, gullies and swirling creeks of New South Wales and Victoria as 'new chums' from all over the world rushed to be rich. This beautifully detailed w ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--thro ...Show more
Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world by Peter Moore
$29.99 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Australia
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand p ...Show more
The Bleak Picture by Bill Leak; The Australian (As told to)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australia
This is a beautifully illustrated collection of his most popular and enduring cartoons. Featuring over 200 cartoons from his remarkable life and career.
The Best Australian Bush Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond ...an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.
Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke
$14.99 AUD
$29.99 (50% off)
Category: Australia
Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First Fleet and founded Sydney. Through meticulous res ...Show more
A Pleasure to Be Here: The Best of Clarke and Dawe 1989-2017 by John Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australia
A hilarious collection of interviews discussing the highs and lows in the public and political life of Australia over the past three decades. Drawn from John Clarke's and Bryan Dawe's weekly broadcasts, these timelessly funny scripts will delight readers as they revisit the scandals and stuff-ups of our ...Show more
Tiberius with a Telephone: Life and Stories of William McMahon by Patrick Mullins
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Winner of the National Biography Award 2020. William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics in the second half of the twentieth century. This biography tells the story of his life, his career, and his doomed attempts to recast views of his much-maligne ...Show more
Green Nomads Wild Places by Bob Brown; Paul Thomas
$39.99 AUD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: Australia
Visit some of the most remote and beautiful places of south and west Australia in Green Nomads Wild Places, Bob Brown and partner Paul Thomas's three-month adventure across Australia. This is a photographic and written record of a journey that took them first by yacht and then by road along the coas ...Show more
Black Saturday - That's Not the End of the Story by Peg Fraser
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: History of Australia Ser.
The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-three people lost their lives, the greatest number from any bushfire event in this nation's history. In the wake of this tragedy much media and public commentar ...Show more
Convicts in the Colonies by Lucy Williams
$52.99 AUD
Category: Australia
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through ...Show more
Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong's First Step by Andrew Tink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Nei ...Show more