THE WARRNAMBOOL FIRE BRIGADE 1863 - 2013 by QUARRELL, AVIS
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women w ...Show more
An Afternoon of Time - Tales of the Great Ocean Road and Country Victoria by Don Charlwood
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Two stories have been added to this new edition to make twelve beautifully told and entertaining tales of rural life in Western Victoria during the 1930s. Four of the stories centre on the Otway Forest and the Great Ocean Road of that time. The other eight stories tell of farming and community life in t ...Show more
Shearing in Victoria's Western District by Tracey Kruger
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
This book includes photographs and a brief history of 160 working woolsheds that were photographed by Tracey Kruger over a 2 and a half year time frame.
The Lucky Country: Amazing Australian tales of pure dumb luck by Eamon Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Eamon Evans dives deep to deliver the most hilarious, fascinating tales of the Australians who were almost too lucky to be believed. The happy accident that created wi-fi. The well-placed piece of coral that saved the Endeavour from sinking. The karaoke night that launched Kylie's singing career.Austral ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
100 Weirdest Tales from Across Australia by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Fish falling out of the sky, joggers relieving themselves on your doorstep, mysterious monsters constantly springi ...Show more
Great Australian Ambos Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Yeah, while some of my stories are quite gory, others can be very enlightening. Though, in hindsight, the best outcomes are when the patient pulls through. It's then that you know you've done your job, and you get a bit of a buzz out of that. Put the sirens on and get ready to hit the road, because fact ...Show more
Saving St Brigid's by Regina Lane; Shane Howard (Foreword by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
At the top of a hill in south-west Victoria, surrounded by rolling green hills that fallaway to the Southern Ocean, sits a grand old red-brick church. For more than 150years, these fertile volcanic fields have sustained the largest rural population of Irishdescent in Australia. Built and paid for by the ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Towns & Pubs Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has been on yet another adventure, this time gathering more stories from outback towns and pubs; from the green fields of Tasmania to the vast red sands of Simpson Desert.The unique characters of the outback will touch your heart as Swampy presents all the drama and delight of life i ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Yarns by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A collection of the funniest yarns and most colourful characters from the bestselling 'Great Australian Stories' series from beloved storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.
The Forgotten Menzies: The World Picture of Australia's Longest-Serving Prime Minister by Stephen Chavura; Greg Melleuish
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was the founder of the Liberal Party of Australia. As well as being Australia's longest-serving prime minister, Menzies was the most thoughtful. Menzies' world picture was one where Britishness was the overriding normative principle, and in which cultural puritanism and philoso ...Show more