Australia Day by Stan Grant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Terminus: The Pub That Sydney Forgot by Shirley Fitzgerald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
For over thirty years the Terminus Hotel had stood dilapidated and abandoned on the corner of Harris and John Streets in Pyrmont - shrouded in mystery and a heavy coat of ivy, and the memories of its publicans and customers long faded. Told with fascinating insight and rich detail, historian and author ...Show more
Australia Remember When by Bob Byrne
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Remember grabbing a copy of the late edition afternoon paper from the paper boy? Watching a Graham Kennedy skit on TV? Did you buy a 45rpm single or a 33rpm album at your local record shop? And play it on your record player? If you answered yes to any of these questions chances are you are part of the B ...Show more
This Time: Australia's Republican Past and Future by Benjamin T. Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
To propose an Australian should be our head of state doesn't seem revolutionary. 'Isn't that already the case?" some may even ask. Flip a coin and you'll have your answer. In This Time, Benjamin T. Jones charts a path to an independent future. He reveals the fascinating early history of the Australian ...Show more
Australians: A short history by Thomas Keneally
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a sto ...Show more
And the Clock Struck Thirteen: The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien by Mary-Anne Gale
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the story of Kaurna man Uncle Lewis O'Brien and his family, beginning with his great, great grandmother Kudnarto - the first Aboriginal woman to marry a white man in South Australia. An esteemed Aboriginal elder, Lewis O'Brien worked as a fitter and machinist for 30 years, before joining the SA ...Show more
The Desert Column by Ion Idriess
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
One of the most popular accounts by an Australian veteran of WWI--written entirely from the private soldier's point of view. "One hundred years after the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in October 1917... The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war. Pu ...Show more
The Dismissal Dossier: The Palace Connection: Everything You Were Never Meant to Know about November 1975 by Jenny Hocking
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Here is the definitive story of the most divisive episode in Australia's history—the dismissal of Gough Whitlam's Labor government. In her award-winning biography of Gough Whitlam, Jenny Hocking revealed the astonishing secret story of the planning and the people behind the dismissal. Never before relea ...Show more
Under Full Sail by Rob Mundle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
July 1852. It had been six weeks since the 932 passengers and sixty-man crew aboard the clipper Marco Polo had left England bound for Melbourne. They had just crossed the northern latitude of the Roaring Forties, some 350 nautical miles south of the Cape of Good Hope. Suddenly a fearsome Southern Ocean ...Show more
Courage in the Skies: The Untold Story of Qantas, its Brave Men and Women and Their Extraordinary Role in World War II by Jim Eames
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the extraordinary and little known story of Qantas' significant role during World War II, particularly in its campaigns against the Japanese. It is a story of truly heroic deeds during the fall of Singapore, taking munitions and military personnel up and refugees back, of escape and subterfuge a ...Show more
Australia: A Cultural History by John Rickard
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Monash Classics Ser.
`A perceptive, balanced, wide-ranging interpretation of the evolution of modern Australia which is both erudite and well-written' - Duncan Bythell John Rickard's Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has also ...Show more