Australia According To Hoges: Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER by Paul Hogan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Stories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down Under Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have been coming ever since, and while it hasn't alway ...Show more
Sydney-A Beautiful City: A Beautiful City by New Holland Publishers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Sydney is one of the most stunning and beautiful cities in the world. This beautiful chunky format showcases Sydney at its finest and shows off this beautiful city. From the Harbour and all it has to offer to the city CBD, the historical rocks and some of its most famous heritage sites of Sydney, touris ...Show more
Bush Life: Stories from the beating heart of rural Australia
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Told through the camera lens of ten exceptional photographers, Bush Life explores the vibrant world of creative living that exists beyond our city limits. There's an authenticity to bush life - an appreciation of raw beauty, simple rituals and genuine people. A grit and resilience that's both bolstering ...Show more
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
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Our Mob Served: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories of War and Defending Australia
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war time and defence service, told through the vivid oral histories and treasured family images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of ...Show more
Rogue Forces: An explosive insiders' account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan by Mark Willacy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award's Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Rogue Forces is the explosive first insiders’ story of how some of Australia’s revered ...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
King of the Australian Coast by Marsden Hordern
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
"Phillip Parker King has been described as the greatest of Australia s early marine surveyors. But while the achievements of Cook and Flinders are widely known, this is the first telling of King s story.Unlike Cook and Flinders, King was Australian-born--the son of Philip Gidley King, governor of New So ...Show more
Balgo: Creating Country by John Carty
$89.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
In the early days we did painting. Cultural way. For ourselves.Then on the mission Sister Alice was working with the young men and women, like Gracie Green and Matthew Gill. We did a lot of landscapes at the start. Then after that people did a lot of paintings for the church.Then we decided we gotta do ...Show more
Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more