100 Weirdest Tales from Across Australia by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Fish falling out of the sky, joggers relieving themselves on your doorstep, mysterious monsters constantly springi ...Show more
A Clear Flowing Yarra by Harry Saddler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australia
A passionate, evocative love letter to an iconic waterway, and an opportunity to appreciate the natural beauty right on our doorsteps. They say you can't step in the same river twice, and it's true that the Yarra has been hugely changed - but this book is a glorious and timely reminder that things can ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
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
Apollo and Thelma by Jon Faine
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In Apollo and Thelma, broadcaster and lawyer Jon Faine shares a yarn that has enthralled him for forty years, taking him from Melbourne’s depression-era slums to the isolation of the outback. Apollo and Thelma have been a constant in Jon Faine’s life for decades. As a young lawyer, he was captivated b ...Show more
Australia - A Beautiful Continent: A beautiful continent by New Holland Publishers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pictorial/Photography
This book features Australia at it’s best; a land of great diversity and contrast. This book covers our fascinating outback to our beautiful coastlines, glorious beaches and rugged landscapes along with our majestic islands that makes Australia a country so unique. Covering all states, this chunky littl ...Show more
Australia Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Remember grabbing a copy of the late edition afternoon paper from the paper boy? Watching a Graham Kennedy skit on TV? Did you buy a 45rpm single or a 33rpm album at your local record shop? And play it on your record player? If you answered yes to any of these questions chances are you are part of the B ...Show more
Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne by Robyn Annear
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Just a little way down Collins Street, beside Henry Buck's, is a perpetually dark but sheltered laneway called Equitable Place. Here you'll find a number of places to eat and drink. Settle yourself in the window of one, shut your eyes, and picture this scene of yore . . . 'In this much-loved book, Robyn ...Show more
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more
Collins The Great Ocean Road Touring Map: Plan Your Adventure Along Australia's South-Eastern Coast by Collins Maps
$13.99 AUD
Category: Australia
Named one of the best road trips in the world by The Times, Condé Nast Traveller, and Time Out. Full colour, informative map of the popular Great Ocean Road. With detailed mapping, key tourist information and a suggested itinerary, this is a perfect guide for anyone travelling around Australia's Grea ...Show more
Corners of Melbourne by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australia
Melbourne's favourite historian, as seen in the acclaimed documentary, The Lost City of Melbourne, takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to be.What better defines a city than its stre ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more