Lasseter's Gold by Warren Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930 it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier he had staggered out of the desert, almost dead, his pockets bulging with gold, claiming to have found a 15 kilometre gold reef. The mystery deepened when he and a surveyor returned to ...Show more
The World of the First Australians: Aboriginal Traditional Life Past and Present by Ronald M. and Catherine H Berndt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the ninth printing of this classic book by Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Topics covered include social organisation, economic life, relationship with land, life cycle, religious beliefs, law and order, art, death, politics and an analysis of current developments in both Aboriginal studies and Abo ...Show more
Certain Admissions: A Beach, A Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Who killed Beth Williams? On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When polic ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a great nation lost its way by Nick Bryant
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A forensic look at the Lucky Country, from the inside and outside. Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented accla ...Show more
Unnamed Desires A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian History Ser.
The first in-depth study of female same-sex desire in twentieth-century Australia, this book explores the compelling stories of ordinary women who struggled to build lives and express their love for other women in a hostile society. Focusing on Sydney and country New South Wales in the mid-twentieth-cen ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
I'm Not Racist But... 40 Years of the Racial Discrimination Act by Tim Soutphommasane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Is Australia a racist country? The question persists, in spite of our multicultural success. Race continues to be a lightning rod of public debate. Australia may be relaxed and comfortable about many things, but it remains unsettled about matters of race andculture. The Racial Discrimination Act is Aust ...Show more
Australia's Boldest Experiment : War and Reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart Macintyre
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A major new account of the 1940s in Australia. In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, ...Show more
Joh for PM by Paul Davey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Unfolding like a political thriller, Joh for PM reveals for the first time the details of the campaign that rocked Australian politics. In 1987 the Queensland Premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, launched an audacious bid to break the federal Opposition Coalition, replace Ian Sinclair as National Party leader, ...Show more
Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery to Australia by Graham Seal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Remarkable stories from the dangerous early voyages to Australia - long before Captain Cook claimed it for the English - reveal a very different history than the triumphal British version we learnt at school.
The Making of Australia: From a Tiny Struggling Convict Settlement to the Remarkable Nation it is Today by David Hill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and acce ...Show more
Black Widow: The True Story of Australia's First Female Serial Killer by Carol Baxter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Never before in the hundred year history of Australia has a female prisoner become so notorious as Louisa Collins.' - Evening News Two inquests, four trials, three hung juries and the executioner...but was Louisa Collins really a husband killer? Was she the callous adulteress, drunkard and liar known as ...Show more