Behind the Wheel Photographs from the Australian Road by Ian Kenins
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Photographs of life on and along the Australian road. Includes a foreword and four written essays relating to driving Australian roads.
Sydney Rock Pools [2nd ed] by Ignacio Palacios
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Sydney Rock Pools
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
Out of Range by John Rooth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Who?d be mad enough to go travelling to some of the most isolated places in the world in a beaten-up old truck? Meet John 'Roothy' Rooth, Australia's best-known bush mechanic.In a country where a little trip is thousands of kilometres and a busy place means someone's been there before, you'll smell the ...Show more
Convicts in the Colonies - Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia by Lucy Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through ...Show more
The Lost Boy by Robert Wainwright
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
This journalistic book relates one of the most gripping news events in Australia in 1993—the disappearance of 8-year-old Clinton Liebelt in the outback. A reporter who originally covered the incident revisits this compelling mystery and shares the uplifting story of how one child's tragic disappearance ...Show more
Australians at Home: World War I by Michael McKernan
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
The best-selling Australians at Home were the first books to study the Australian home front, during World War I and II, in depth and detail, putting the lives, sufferings and grief of Australian women and children in the forefront of the war experiencePerfectly pitched, they reach the classic general r ...Show more
Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore: A History of Sydney's Southern Beaches by John Ogden
$99.00 AUD
Category: Australian Reference | Series: Saltwater People
The focus of Saltwater People - Sydney's Southern Beaches is on the shoreline - that high energy intersection between sea and land where waves, whipped-up by wind and storms, sometimes thousands of kilometers out to sea, announce their arrival in a final dramatic explosion, or caress it with a gentle ca ...Show more
Greek Cafes and Milk Bars of Australia by Effy & Janiszewski Alexakis (Leonard)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Photographs and cultural history
Introduction to the Concepts of Music by Nick Peterson
$84.95 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
This exciting senior secondary Music text is an indispensable resource for Music teachers and Music students. The text introduces the concepts of music (texture, duration, pitch, tone, colour, structure and dynamics and expressive techniques), shows how they can be applied to the study of any topic and ...Show more
Strayapedia by Dominic Knight
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Patriotically basted in the goon trough of Australian values, this book is as fundamentally Strayan as bowling your final over underarm, not asking awkward questions about what's in your meat pie, and naming a swimming pool after Harold Holt. Conveniently omitting all areas not relating to Australia ...Show more
Summertime: Reflections on a Fractured Future by Danielle Celermajer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Reference
Philosopher Danielle Celermajer's story of Jimmy the pig caught the world's attention during the Black Summer of 2019-20. Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Cele ...Show more