The Good Old Bad Old Days by Warren Fahey
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The 2011 post code of Sydney's inner east offers a fascinating history of high life, low life and, sometimes very low life. All five precincts are alive with history and surprising stories. Ride the scenic roller-coaster over the forgotten White City at Rushcutters Bay; see the naughty boys waving their ...Show more
Dead & Buried - The Curious History of Sydney's Earliest Burial Grounds (p/b) by warren fahey
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Cemeteries are full of stories and Sydney's three earliest burial grounds: The Old Burial Ground, Devonshire Street Sandhills Cemetery and the grand Rookwood Necropolis, tell stories of Sydney's notables - the famous and the infamous. Each chapter in this fascinating collection tells of notable burials ...Show more
My Darlinghurst
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Growing up in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs in the 1980s and 90s, I remember the pull of Darlinghurst. As a teenager, I would catch the 380 bus, get off at Taylor Square and dive gratefully into the slipstream broadmindedness — of lives lived imaginatively.Darlinghurst, a triangle of 80 hectares, sits on the ...Show more
Paddington: A history
$75.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The first major history of Paddington - Sydney's celebrated heritage suburb - in forty yearsThis first major history of Paddington in forty years provides a fresh and revealing perspective on this celebrated heritage suburb in Sydney - one of the largest and most intact Victorian enclaves in the world. ...Show more
Retro Sydney by Nathan Mete
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A collection of beautiful photographs of Australia's first city that invites you to immerse yourself and revisit the cool, quirky, glamorous, exciting, menacing, and wonderful times of Retro Sydney.This collection of photographs celebrates the vibrant and exciting coming of age of Australia's first city ...Show more
This Is Where You Have to Go: A Heartbreaking and Powerful Story of a Mother’s Quest for Connection With Her Lost Son by Lynda Holden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced. Proud Dhunghutti woman, laywer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda Holden tells her own heartbreaking story and of her fight for justice. In 1970, Lynda was eighteen, unmarried and p ...Show more
The Great Housing Hijack: The Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Great Housing Hijack reveals how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Australia, and offers a solution for genuinely affordable housing for those who need it. Everyone claims to want affordable housing, but no one wants cheap housing. While Australians on regular incomes dre ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more