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  • Annette Kellerman, Australian Mermaid

    The inspiring true story of the swimming champion and Hollywood star, from the bestselling author of SISTER VIV and THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBY

    by Grantlee Kieza ...
    Champion swimmer, trailblazer and film idol - the adventurous life of our first Hollywood superstar, by the bestselling author of Sister Viv, Mrs Kelly, Hudson Fysh, Banks and BanjoFrom the moment she was born in 1886, Annette Kellerman was a force of nature. After a diagnosis of rickets as a young girl she took up swimming, and her extraordinary tenacity and bravery made her an Australian ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

  • Survival in Singapore

    The triumph and tragedy of Australia's greatest commando operation

    by Tom Trumble ...
    On a pitch-black night in September 1943, a daring Australian commando unit launches a covert raid on Singapore Harbour, sinking and damaging numerous Japanese ships. Operation Jaywick – an epic mission that passed into Australia’s national legend – sets in motion a brutal crackdown by Japan’s dreaded military police, the Kempei Tai.Tasked with finding the culprits of the attack, Major Sumida ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

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  • The Wonder of Little Things

    by Vince Copley, Lea McInerney ...
    A First Nations Elder shares his extraordinary story of finding kindness in the midst of prejudice, and joy in living life to the full'A powerful tale that tells a different story of our country' Bruce Pascoe'A great Australian book about a great Australian' Paul Kennedy'Told with heart' Ali Cobby Eckermann'Destined to become a classic' Phillip Adams'Welcome to m... ... Read more

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  • Batavia's Graveyard

    by Mike Dash ...
    The true story of the mad heretic who led history's bloodiest mutiny - 'An adult version of LORD OF THE FLIES that is, moreover, entirely true' Evening StandardWhen the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art

    by Marcia Langton, Judith Ryan ...
    65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia's brutal colonial history and offers new insights into the first art of this country. Long before Britain's invasion of Australia in 1788, First Peoples' cultural and design traditions flourished for thousands of generations. Their art shaped the continent as we know it today and the societies that thrived here ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    by Matthew Benns ...
    A highly entertaining, scurrilous and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks.There are con men you fear and con men you hate, and con men with amazing stories who take your breath away with their dirty tricks and sheer brazen effontery. How do they get away with it?Written by bestselling author Matthew Benns, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a rollicking ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Burning Ambition

    The Centenary of Australia-New Zealand Football Ashes

    by Nick Guoth, Trevor Thompson ...
    June 2022 is the centenary of the first international football series played between Australia and New Zealand.For the men involved, the Dunedin first 'Test' on June 17, 1922, was the first day of the future. The coming-of-age of the game would see not only international football but also domestic discussions about professionalism, relationships with Asia, FIFA membership, reorganising Empire ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Hudson Fysh

    The extraordinary life of the WWI hero who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings from the popular award-winning journalist and author of BANJO, BANKS and MRS KELLY

    by Grantlee Kieza ...
    The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wingsBy the critically acclaimed author of bestselling biographies of John Monash, Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, Lachlan Macquarie and Henry Lawson, this is a fascinating, lively and thoroughly researched portrait of a modest, resolute family man with a steady hand during turbulence ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Lady Vanishes

    The next bestselling Australian true crime book based on the popular podcast series, for fans of I CATCH KILLERS, THE WIDOW OF WALCHA and DIRTY JOHN

    by Alison Sandy, Bryan Seymour, Sally Eeles, Marc Wright ...
    A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again.When Marion Barter disappeared in 1997, police initially dismissed it as the actions of a divorced mother abandoning her family. In this book, the creators of the addictive global hit podcast The Lady Vanishes detail the winding investigation into Marion's disappearance, from tentative early ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Australia's Greatest Stories

    True Tales, Legends and Larrikins

    by Graham Seal ...
    Tall tales and colourful characters, from ancient times to today; these are the stories that reveal what makes us distinctively Australian.Some of the world's oldest stories are told beneath Australian skies. Master storyteller Graham Seal takes us on a journey through time, from ancient narratives recounted across generations to the symbols and myths that resonate with Australians today.He ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Mary Ann and Captain Piper

    The remarkable true story of the convicts' daughter who became the toast of colonial Sydney

    by Jessica North ...
    The fascinating story of the daughter of First Fleet convicts who overcame her humble origins to become the mistress of the grandest home in colonial Sydney.'An astonishing story of lust and love in early colonial Australia, shocking, entrancing and utterly enthralling.' - Sue Williams, author of Elizabeth and ElizabethBorn on Norfolk Island to First Fleet convicts, Mary Ann was destined to become ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Banks

    A riveting account of one of the world's most famous explorers, a story of lust, science, adventure, and voyages of discovery, from the award-winning author of BANJO, SISTER VIV and HUDSON FYSH

    by Grantlee Kieza ...
    Lust, science, adventure -- Joseph Banks and his voyages of discoverySir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge.Fabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The First Migration

    Māori Origins 3000BC AD1450

    by Atholl Anderson ...
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    Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson’s ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand’s first human inhabitants.Taken from the multi-award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History this Text weaves together ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

  • Churchill and Australia

    by Graham Freudenberg ...
    "Australia seemed to bring out the worst in Winston Churchill. Often enough to form a discernible pattern, Australia found itself on the wrong side of the very qualities-his strength of will, singleness of purpose, his refusal to 'give way, in things great or small, large or petty', the power of his imagination to set grim reality at defiance, his mastery of the English language-that made Winston ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Dancing with Strangers

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    by Inga Clendinnen ...
    Winner, Kiriyama Prize 2004Winner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2004Winner, Best History Book, Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards 2004Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen’s seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • No Hearts of Gold

    by Jackie French ...
    Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destinyIt was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests ...The bride had vanished.Some girls are born to be loved, some are born to be useful.Some girls are born to be bad.Indulged and wealthy Kat Fitzhubert is seemingly 'sold off' in an arranged marriage in a colony across the world. ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • A Game of Our Own

    The Origins of Australian Football

    by Geoffrey Blainey ...
    Today Australian Rules football is a multi-million-dollar business, with superstar players, high-profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera. The game has changed beyond recognition – or has it?In A Game of Our Own, esteemed historian Geoffrey Blainey documents the birth of our great national game. Who were the characters and champions of the early days of Australian football? How ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Semut

    The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

    by Christine Helliwell, Emeritus Professor ...
    March 1945. A handful of young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most have barely encountered Asian or indigenous people before, speak next to no Borneo languages, and know little about Dayaks, other than that they have been – ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Uprising

    War in the colony of New South Wales, 18381844

    by Stephen Gapps ...
    The award-winning author of The Sydney Wars reveals the breadth of frontier resistance warfare.The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance ended in 1824 with a series of massacres conducted by settlers in the Bathurst region. From the 1830s, colonists began occupying more and more Aboriginal land across western New South Wales and stocking it with sheep and cattle. By 1838, a dramatic fightback began ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Unsettled

    A Journey Through Time and Place

    by Kate Grenville ...
    What does it mean to be on land taken from others?‘What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?’Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret River in 2005, a bestseller based on the story of her convict ancestor, an early settler on ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Passing of the Aborigines

    A Lifetime spent among the Natives of Australia

    by Daisy Bates ...
    DAISY BATES: "As the years passed, I was more and more convinced that it was impossibleto leave these people, to be deaf to their appeal for human kindliness,and of the hopelessness of any movement except one of help and comfort tothe individual, and personal example. So savage and so simple, so muchastray and so utterly helpless were they, that somehow they became myresponsibility. All along the ... Read more

    $2.99 AUD

  • A Shorter History of Australia

    by Geoffrey Blainey ...
    A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians.After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events that have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport; the suspicion of the ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • With the Falling of the Dusk

    The compelling and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead

    by Stan Grant ...
    A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant.History is turning.In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of history' and the triumph of liberal democracy in 1989. Now, with the inexorable rise of China, the ... Read more

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