Australia's Funniest Yarns by Graham Seal
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Australians traditionally like their humour irreverent, crude and with very sharp teeth.Remember the one about the strange whining sound heard at airports as planes from Britain landed? This was the whingeing of Pommy migrants dissatisfied with what they found in Australia. Or how about the Citizenship ...Show more
Lost Diggers by Ross Coulthart
$37.99 AUD
$39.99 (5% off)
Category: Miltary
'It's a treasure trove. It's previously unknown, candid images of our troops just out of the line. Men with the fear and experiences of battle written on their faces.' General Sir Peter Cosgrove Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for History 2015, brings ...Show more
Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery to Australia by Graham Seal
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Remarkable stories from the dangerous early voyages to Australia - long before Captain Cook claimed it for the English - reveal a very different history than the triumphal British version we learnt at school.
Detours by Tim Rogers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
'Of all the utterances delivered to me by strangers, my least favourite after "We can no longer legally serve you" would have to be, "Well, that isn't very rock'n'roll."'Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a hard-drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a flamboyant flâneur; a ra ...Show more
Chappell's Last Stand by Michael Sexton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Swashbuckling and fearless, Ian Chappell epitomised Australian cricket in the 1970s. When he gave up the Test captaincy, he set out to salvage south Australian pride. Chappell's Last Stand zooms in on what was supposed to be the mercurial cricketer's last year as a player, when he went to war with admin ...Show more
The Last Snake Man by Jimmy Thomson (As told to); John Cann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. B ...Show more
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Australia's Unknown Hero by Simon Nasht
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Hubert Wilkins was truly the last - and one of the greatest - explorers. And much more. Born in South Australia, he spent most of his life out of the country - but always remained an Australian. He travelled through every continent, and was a pioneer of aviation. He survived crashes and disasters, firin ...Show more
Platypus (Nature Storybooks) by Sue Whiting
$16.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Nature Storybooks Ser.
Platypus leaves his burrow in the riverbank and dives into the cool green pool. It is dusk and he is hungry. Platypus is always busy, always moving, looking for his next meal. Follow platypus as he plays, swims, dives and scurries around his riverbank home.
The Snowy: A History by Siobhán McHugh
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Snowy - A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was ...Show more
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphori ...Show more
Blueberries by Ellena Savage
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an arti ...Show more
The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier by Mark Dunn
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginals and convicts in the second settlement in ...Show more