The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling People and Environment by Matthew Colloff
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Compelling, multifarious and essential.'- Don Watson'Drink in its wisdom.'- Andrew Leigh MPWINNER OF 2021 NSW PREMIER'S HISTORY AWARDOn this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them.If we look afresh at our history through the land we liv ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day by Stan Grant
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The latest critically acclaimed bestseller from Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day, The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to action. Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awar ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite Terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia with Additional True Stories, Remarkable Facts and Illustrations by Simon Barnard
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...Show more
First Knowledges Box Set by First Knowledges
$125.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Exploring practices such as Songlines, architecture and design, land management, astronomy, botany and law, this series brings together two very different ways of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers an ...Show more
Hope in Hell: A History of Darlinghurst Gaol and the National Art School by DEBORAH BECK
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Hope in Hell is a rich visual account of one of the oldest and best-preserved examples of colonial Sydney architecture, the Darlinghurst Gaol. A place steeped in Australia's early, brutal history and reputedly haunted by convict ghosts, it has been the centre of Sydney's art scene for 83 years and conti ...Show more