Jimmy Sharman's Boxers: Australia's legendary travelling boxing troupe by Stephen McGrath
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his u ...Show more
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War by Phillip Deery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at counter ...Show more
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia by Elizabeth Tynan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and the fact that it was largely forgotten makes it more intriguing. Only at Emu Field did a terrifying black mist speed across the la ...Show more
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more
Judy Cassab Diaries by Judy Cassab
$27.40 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Judy Cassab is one of Australia's best known portrait painters and the winner of many prestigious art awards including the coveted Archibald Prize. Austrian-born and of Hungarian parents, Judy Cassab emigrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children. In Australia, she quickly gained a rep ...Show more
The Bush - Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Error Australis by Ben Pobjie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
We're obsessed with reality television these days yet we so often neglect the greatest reality of all: the reality of our nation, and how it came to be. In Error Australis, TV columnist, comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie recaps the history of Australia from its humble beginnings as a small patch of r ...Show more
The Melbourne Tram Book by Dale Budd & Randall Wilson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
This new edition of The Melbourne Tram Book is a gloriously colourful and compact tribute to Melbournes famous and iconic trams, one of the citys most enduring symbols. More than 200 photographs and illustrations show the trams in the streetscapes of today and yesterday.
Future In Flames by Clode, Danielle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
No other continent on earth is a prone to bushfires, over such a large area, as Australia. What is it about Australia that makes it so prone to fires? Have humans made thing worse, or better? This book intends to answer some of these questions and understand why, after so many years, people are still dy ...Show more
Outback Women's Stories: Amazing Australian Amazons by Paul Bugeja
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The word "amazon" generally conjures up images of wild and powerful warrior women, fighting off foes in some primitive matriarchal society where they rule over men who have been subverted to more menial roles. Outback Women's Stories is a compilation of significant Australian women of simple but importa ...Show more
Voyages to the South Seas by CLODE DANIELLE
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna. Lap rouse and Labillardi re, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge. This is the ...Show more