Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
29.99 AUD
34.99 (14% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Spiders of Australia - ID Chart: Fold-out Id Chart Covering More Than 50 Key Spider Species and Families by Reed New Holland Publishers
7.60 AUD
7.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Australia is famed for its venomous and potentially deadly spiders, such as the Sydney Funnel-web and the Redback Spider. However, the vast majority of the more than 3,000 described species – with thousands more awaiting official description and classification – are harmless to humans. This easy-to-use ...Show more
Bush Birds of Australia - ID Chart: Fold-out sheet covering 60 birds of forests and woodlands by Reed New Holland
7.60 AUD
7.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Part of Reed New Holland’s exciting easy-to-use ID-chart series, this eye-catching fold-out sheet depicts a selection of the bird species most commonly seen in ‘wilder’ habitats such as woodland, forest and scrub, with a particular emphasis on those found not far from Australian towns and cities. It inc ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
29.99 AUD
34.99 (14% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
29.99 AUD
32.99 (9% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
34.99 AUD
39.99 (12% off)
Category: Australiana
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Galah: Stories of Life Outside the City by Annabelle Hickson
66.50 AUD
69.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring stories from the coast to the f ...Show more
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth, Frank Bongiorno
26.80 AUD
27.99 (4% off)
Category: Aust. Politics
A little book about the big history of one of Australia’s most important institutions The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. This short, sharp history tells the story of the party’s formation, its successes and failures at winning ...Show more
Fire Stories - Reflections from Northern Rivers Locals on the 2019/2020 Bushfires by Jarrah Dundler (Curated by, Editor); Anastasia Guise (Editor, Curated by, Footnotes by, Interviewer, (various roles)); Jimmy Malecki (Photographer); Jodie Harris (Photographer); Mary Shields (Photographer); Daniel Taylor (Photographer); Saskia Flynn (Illustrator); Jo Evans (Designed by)
59.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Fire Stories is a collection of photos and narratives from people from the Northern Rivers of NSW about the 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires. The twenty-seven stories are presented as first-person narratives reflecting on the individuals experiences during the fires and the years and months after. The s ...Show more
Sister Viv: The inspiring gripping WWII story of survival and heroism of a courageous young army nurse from the bestselling award-winning author of THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY, LAWSON and HUDSON FYSH by Grantlee Kieza
29.99 AUD
35.99 (16% off)
Category: Australiana
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-si ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
26.80 AUD
27.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian Writing & Language
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more