Tom Wills: The Insubordinate Life of an Australian Sporting Legend by Greg de Moore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The updated edition of the definitive biography of the visionary sportsman who brought us Australian Rules football and was the greatest cricketer of his era. SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD This is the story of Tom Wills - flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, Au ...Show more
Kangaroo Island by Edited by Alison Higgs
$79.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Separated from the mainland by the 30 kilometres of treacherous water known as Backstairs Passage, Kangaroo Island is Australia’s third-largest island. The coast, wild and rugged in parts, has cliffs and rocky outcrops formed by a beating from the Southern Atlantic, interspersed with tranquil soft white ...Show more
Toots: Woman in a Man's World by Donna Vawdrey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Toots Holzheimer, a hard working mother of eight, drove trucks for a living from the 1960's to 1990's across some of Australia's most inhospitable terrain, Cape York Peninsula. Toots delivered freight to the northern tip of Australia for over thirty years, servicing her own trucks, loading them by hand ...Show more
Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbe ...Show more
Banbu-Deen: The Years of Terror by Marguerita Stephens; Fay Stewart-Muir (As told to)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Why did Billibellary and Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung clansfolk parley with the coloniser John Batman on the banks of the Merri Creek in June 1835? And what befell the clans in the decade and a half that followed? Based on the daily journal of Assistant Protector William Thomas, this work meticulously doc ...Show more
Australia According To Hoges: Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER by Paul Hogan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Stories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down Under Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have been coming ever since, and while it hasn't alway ...Show more
How They Fought by Ray Kerkhove
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The history of Australia’s Frontier Wars is becoming a hot topic for debate and research. It is now part of our national educational syllabus. However, there are very few books available which explain, in detail, the modes of warfare First Australians applied during the Frontier Wars. How They Fought is ...Show more
Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities by Lee-Ann Monk; David Henderson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The history of Melbourne's Kew Children's Cottages (1887- 2008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents - and it is vividly relevant to today, when the rights of people with disabilities are the subject of a royal commission. Those with an intellectual disability were histor ...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
Wild Ride: The Story of the Australian Stock Saddle by Fiona Carruthers
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Clancy rode down the Cooper, Ned Kelly went on the run and Hugh Jackman's Drover headed for Darwin, they all rode in an Australian stock saddle.Developed in response to the unique challenges of the Australian environment, the Australian stock saddle is known for its comfort and ease when riding, es ...Show more
Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation by Ross McMullin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Acclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Aust ...Show more
Working Dogs: A photo documentary of the Australian working dog by Andrew Chapman, Melanie Faith Dove
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia's favourite book on working dogs is back!