The Lucky Country: Amazing Australian tales of pure dumb luck by Eamon Evans
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Eamon Evans dives deep to deliver the most hilarious, fascinating tales of the Australians who were almost too lucky to be believed. The happy accident that created wi-fi. The well-placed piece of coral that saved the Endeavour from sinking. The karaoke night that launched Kylie's singing career.Austral ...Show more
Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson: A selection of old favourites by Newell Rex
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
The "Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson" have always been, and still remain, firm favourites with most Australians. He was "a poet who captured characters, moments and events which are now part of our national consciousness...no one managed to tell stories which as much wit and humour as 'The Banjo'" Thi ...Show more
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian Biography
A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home. In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. Combining pages of her diary, kept thro ...Show more
Australia's Looming Energy Crisis: Can We Keep the Lights On? by Alan G. Lawrenson
37.99 AUD
40.00 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
The book is about Australias looming energy crisis. It looks at energy sources including coal, gas, hydro and pumped hydro, solar and onshore and offshore wind as well as long term energy storage. It reviews the critical minerals that Australia needs. The book is a detailed analysis of Australias loomin ...Show more
Abandoned New South Wales by Shane Thoms
23.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
Discarded architectural legacies, the abandoned factories, homes and public places of New South Wales, are small footnotes of history. Here, the past and present clash to reveal a handful of small vignettes that whisper the secrets of those who came to live and dwell. Here are clues that speak of the fo ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the Hangmen and the Underbelly of Colonial Australia by Michael Adams
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Category: Australiana
A fresh, unique take on Ned Kelly - a fascinating, entertaining and kaleidoscopic look at the society that shaped him in life and death When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to shit-shoveller-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kel ...Show more
The Great Housing Hijack: The Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray
32.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
The Great Housing Hijack reveals how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Australia, and offers a solution for genuinely affordable housing for those who need it. Everyone claims to want affordable housing, but no one wants cheap housing. While Australians on regular incomes dre ...Show more
Clancy of the Overflow: The legendary bushman by Paterson Banjo; Inopen Robert
23.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
"Clancy of the Overflow", the legendary bushman of Banjo Paterson's immortal verse may never have existed. But does it matter? He is every Australian, a very real, even larger than life figure, a free and independent spirit galloping through the wide open spaces: vigorous, hearty and self-reliant. On th ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day by Stan Grant
23.99 AUD
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Category: Indigenous Australians
The latest critically acclaimed bestseller from Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day, The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to action. Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awar ...Show more
Saving Bunji: The Story of a Girl, a Rescued Kangaroo Joey and the Passion That Led Her to Fight for Change by Brinkley Davies
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
A stunningly photographed memoir for anyone with even a passing interest in the fate of our wildlife and environment. Written by eco-warrior Brinkley Davies (230k+ on Instagram, 20k+ Youtube), Founder of the Balu Blue Foundation, Saving Bunji will be beloved by fans of Penguin Bloom and the activism of ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite Terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia with Additional True Stories, Remarkable Facts and Illustrations by Simon Barnard
28.50 AUD
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Category: Australiana
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
34.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more