The Making of Julia Gillard by Jacqueline Kent
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australians saw many versions of Julia Gillard during her political career. Witty sparring opponent to Tony Abbott. Loyal deputy to and night-time assassin of Kevin Rudd. Hanging-on-by-her-fingernails leader of the land. But what really happened behind the scenes? And why? Drawing on interviews with Jul ...Show more
Last Woman Hanged: The terrible, true story of Louisa Collins by Caroline Overington
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in NSW. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands died suddenly. The C ...Show more
Well May We Say...: The Speeches That Made Australia by Sally Warhaft
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Memorable speeches define a people and a place: they define a nation. It is impossible to imagine Australia's past without Peter Lalor's rallying cry at the Eureka Stockade or Ned Kelly's last words from the dock. Or to imagine recent decades without Pauline Hanson's controversial maiden speech in parli ...Show more
The Bush - Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke ...Show more
Economics of Just About Everything: The hidden reasons for our curious choices and surprising successes by Andrew Leigh
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A fun and illuminating book full of surprising facts and amazing insights about how the laws of economics affect our everyday lives.
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of Asio, 1949--1963 by David Horner
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian HistoryFor the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of I ...Show more
Making of Australia by David Hill
$34.99 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
First Fleet by Rob Mundle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The First Fleet - the Creation of a Nation Bestselling maritime biographer Rob Mundle is back on the ocean with a blockbuster for Christmas. Rob's FIRST FLEET tells the extraordinary story of the eighteenth century convoy of eleven ships that left England on 13 May 1787 for the 'lands beyond the seas'. ...Show more
The Menzies Era by John Howard
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An assessment of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, by John Howard, Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, this is a significant, unique and fascinating history of the Menzies era - a time that laid the foundations for modern Australia. 'Engaging and revealing .. ...Show more
The Search for HMAS Sydney : An Australian Story by Ted Graham et al
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In November 1941 HMAS Sydney, the pride of Australia's wartime fleet, and its crew of 645 disappeared without a trace off the Western Australian coast. All that was known was Sydney had come under fire from the German raider HSK Kormoran, which also sank. After numerous unsuccessful searches from the mi ...Show more
Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia by Bruce Pascoe
$16.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This updated edition of The Little Red Yellow Black Book is an authoritative introduction to Indigenous Australia. It includes real-life case studies and covers history, culture, arts, sport, languages, population, health, participation in education and the workforce, governance, resistance and reconcil ...Show more
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$24.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way ...Show more