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The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
The Farm : Images of Rural Australia by ANDREW CHAPMAN
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian Coffee Table Books
Australia’s countryside, deeply and richly scarred by the human presence, shows the marks of sweat and toil, of lives and generations, of triumphs and failures and of enterprise often slowly decaying with time.These beautiful images captured by Andrew Chapman in The Farm are glimpses of the past amidst ...Show more
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other?In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a m ...Show more
The Hard Slog : Australians in the Bougainville Campaign, 1944-45 by Karl James
$69.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
The island of Bougainville in the South Pacific was the site of one of the largest and most gruelling campaigns fought by Australian forces during the Second World War. During the offensive against the Japanese from November 1944 to August 1945, more than 500 Australians were killed and two Victoria Cro ...Show more
The Harp In The South - Penguin Australian Classics by Ruth Park
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is scarce and life is not easy. Crammed together within the thin walls of Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street are the Darcy family: Mumma, loving and softhearted; Hughie, her drunken husband; pipe-smoking Grandma; ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.98 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth - and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by Ne ...Show more
The Killing Streets: Uncovering Australia's First Serial Murderer by Tanya Bretherton
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser.
From the acclaimed author of The Suitcase Baby and The Suicide Bride, the story of a series of horrific murders that began in 1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two decades. In December 1932, as the Depression tightened its grip, the body of a woman was found in Queens Park, Sydn ...Show more
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 (#12 Australian Army Campaigns) by Chris Roberts
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Series
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history - myths that have endured for almost a century. Told from both the ANZAC and Turkish perspectives, this meticulously researched account questions several of the claims of ...Show more
The Life of Such Is Life - A Cultural History of an Australian Classic by Roger Osborne
$45.00 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy's Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphy's handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controv ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney Bulletin' in 1892 when they decided to have a duel of poetry. The idea was to increase the number of poems they could sell to the paper. It began in fun but later became bitter. Paterson wrote many poems and stories about his travels in the Out ...Show more
The Merry Go Round in the Sea - Penguin Australian Classics by Randolph Stow
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns from the war several years la ...Show more