Coach by Darren Lehmann
$36.99 AUD
$39.99 (7% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
Former Australia captain Ian Chappell once said: 'An international coach is something the Australian team travels in around England.' It is a view that has plenty of subscribers. After all, by the time players reach first-class or certainly international level, surely they shouldn't need to be told how ...Show more
Great Pioneer Women of the Outback by Susanna de Vries
$37.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
In the 1800s, the first white farmers and graziers making their homes in the outback were joined by their wives, many of whom had no idea what lay in store. Expecting a tropical paradise, these female pioneers encountered instead conditions which would test, and often defeat them; relentless heat and du ...Show more
You Can Always Find Someone to Have a Beer WithThe Phil O'Brien Collection by Phil O'Brien
$26.99 AUD
Category: General
A collection of the best yarns from Phil 'Brien's previous bestselling books ''101 Adventures that got me absolutely nowhere'' volume 1 and 2 , and ''The Minor successes of a Bloke that never had a real lot of luck'' A ''must have'' collection , one of the all time great books of raw Australiana. Very c ...Show more
Australian Backyard Astronomy by Ragbir Bhathal; Jenny Bhathal
$24.95 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Written by award-winning writer and astrophysicist Dr Ragbir Bhathal and his daughter Jenny Bhathal, this book reveals Australia's Aboriginal and European night-sky heritage to children from their own backyards, recommended for ages 10-14 years. Discover the stories of the heavens and our understanding ...Show more
Australian Midwives by Paula Heelan
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Mira Ser.
Like Beth McCrae's bestselling Outback Midwife, these real-life stories come from Australian midwives working in the outback, where they share their experiences of that most commonplace but miraculous event, the birth of a child. Sweet, funny and sometimes sad, these stories share what it is to be an A ...Show more
Shed by Simon Griffiths
$36.95 AUD
Category: General
The Shed: A place of retreat, where we can forget the pressures of everyday life, work on a treasured project, store all those keepsakes we can't bear to throw away, or spend time with friends or with ourselves in silent meditation.Photographer Simon Griffiths has an eye for the beauty of ordinary thing ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more
Outback by Scott Bridle
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
Helicopter pilot and photographer Scott Bridle offers a unique view of the vast cattle stations and raw natural beauty of outback Australia. Traversing Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia, his aerial shots - often captured one-handed while flying his chopper - reveal anew the vast exp ...Show more
A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Across Australia from Bush to Coast
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar's words have a knack for swelling the metaphorical chest of many Austr ...Show more
Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang by H. G. Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour | Reading Level: very good
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we're connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc ('plonk') and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another ...Show more
The Hard Quiz Book of the World's Hardest Arses by Gerard McCulloch, Adam Richard, Chris Walker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
Every week, more than a million viewers tune in to the ABC's HARD QUIZ to watch Tom Gleeson grill four regular Australians about their expert subjects. Tom's crack team of writers and researchers at HARD QUIZ Headquarters, or HQHQ, have written thousands of brain-busting questions on hundreds of curly t ...Show more