Vintage Crochet: Classic Australian Patterns by National Library of Australia
39.99 AUD
Category: NLA Art
Featuring vintage crochet patterns found in Australian publications, including the Australian Women's Weekly and the Australian Woman's Mirror, this book has instructions for a variety of garments, accessories, toys and homewares. Each pattern will be accompanied by illustrations from the original publ ...Show more
Seen but Not Heard: Lilian Medland's Birds by Christobel Mattingley
19.99 AUD
Category: NLA Natural History
Lilian Medland has not received until now the recognition she deserves as a painter of birds. Due to world events and circumstances, five important books on birds containing her superb illustrations were never published. Despite such major disappointments, she continued to devote her time and talent to ...Show more
Marion and the Forty Thieves by Sarah Luke
19.99 AUD
Category: NLA Children's Books
A smirking boy shuffled past the door, and Marion, hands shaking, quickly turned the key in the lock. It was Cotterson, the boy from Sewers Canal who wanted to burn the Sobraon. Her heart jolted.The barge had delivered the Forty Thieves onto the ship!Marion’s life is anything but ordinary. The daughter ...Show more
Ellis Rowan by National Library of Australia
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA Art | Series: Artists of the National Library of Australia Ser.
'Petite, plucky and always immaculately dressed in the constraint of Victorian finery...throughout her life she was acclaimed internationally, winning 29 medals, and accolades from leading art critics. Her work was also collected by royalty, including Queen Victoria.' — Patricia Fullerton, 2002Ellis Row ...Show more
Harold Cazneaux by National Library of Australia
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA Art | Series: Artists of the National Library of Australia Ser.
'[Cazneaux’s] work is what matters, its place in the history of Australian photography and its influence on past, present and future generations of photographers.' — Max Dupain, 1978Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953) is widely considered the greatest Australian photographer of the early twentieth century. In p ...Show more
Dear Mutzi: A story of love, escape and finding the forgotten by Tess Scholfield-Peters
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Harry Peters — formally Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi — was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry’s parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps. This story, of forced migration, assimilation, loss, resilience ...Show more
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
32.99 AUD
Category: NLA Publications
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly al ...Show more
Birds by Judith Wright
13.75 AUD
24.99 (44% off)
Category: NLA General
Judith Wright (1915—2000) was one of Australia’s most celebrated poets and one of only two to be considered for the Nobel prize. Her volume Birds was first published in 1962, and 60 years on the National Library of Australia is proud to be bringing this precious collection to today’s audience in this m ...Show more
Phonobet by Kathy Weeden
24.99 AUD
Category: NLA Children's Books
Age range 4 to 6 Come and meet the Phonobet, old Alpha Betty’s twin,The set of all the sounds you use when waggling your chin.Phonobet is a modern-day, Australian answer to Dr Seuss’s ABC. This very clever rhyming text takes an onomatopoeic romp through the 44 phonemes of Australian (and British) Englis ...Show more
Sorry Day by Coral Vass
17.99 AUD
Category: NLA Children's Books
There was a hum of excitement. Flags flickered in the breeze as Maggie's heart danced with delight. 'This is a very special day!' her mother said. Maggie holds tight to her mother as they await the long anticipated apology to show a willingness to reconcile the past for future generations. In the excite ...Show more
A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press by Michael Richards
39.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press is an account of a passion: that of a publisher and the books he made for himself and his friends, keeping alive craft traditions that were threatened by unrelenting change.‘Printing is like religion’, Alec Bolton once said. ‘We live in sin, but with the hope of per ...Show more
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more