A Clear Flowing Yarra by Harry Saddler
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
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
Close to the Subject : Selected Works by Daniel Browning
34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversations wit ...Show more
Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law by Alecia Simmonds
45.00 AUD
Category: History
Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the archives of law Until well into the twentieth century, heartbroken men and women in Australia had a legal redress for their suffering- jilted lovers could claim compensation for 'breach of promise to marry'. Hu ...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
The China-Australia Migration Corridor: History and Heritage by Denis Byrne, Ien Ang, Phillip Mar
40.00 AUD
Category: History
A study of the history and impact of Chinese-Australian migration.The China-Australia Migration Corridor traces the legacy of migration from China to Australia from the 1840s until the present day. It offers a multidimensional examination of the footprint of migration as it exists, stretching between Zh ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sag ...Show more
The Carnal Fugues by Catherine McNamara
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A wayward, wanton selection of stories grounded in displacement, desire, and the wish coursing through us to accede to the state of love. There is torment and illness, crude reality and distant fragrant places, peopled by characters that reside close to our bones, our psyches, our flesh. A Japanese sopr ...Show more
Edenglassie: Longlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Melissa Lucashenko
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
We Didn't Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough
19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
From the author of the award-winning The Boy from the Mish, comes a compelling coming-of-age YA novel about sixteen-year-old Jamie Langton finding his future and navigating the challenges of racism, family and friendship in a small Australian town. The thought comes to me: This is how I die. Dally is g ...Show more
We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis
22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A wonderful emotional rollercoaster of a novel about two young men, each on a journey of discovery. It's part coming-out story, part falling-in-love story, part relationship breakdown story, part extended Greek family story. It's warm and funny, a little bit heartbreaking, and completely satisfying. Sev ...Show more
Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky by Rebecca Lim
17.99 AUD
Category: Older Readers
After their family encounters terrible hardship in rural China, siblings Fu and Pei must draw on all their resilience and courage as they embark on a dangerous journey towards a better life. A compelling and poignant children's novel from the CBCA award-winning author of Tiger Daughter. What if you wer ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more