Have You Seen Tomorrow? by Kyle Mewburn
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
If only Rabbit could see all the wonderful things right under his nose today, instead of always looking forward to tomorrow! This very special picture book, a contemporary fable about practising gratitude, mindfulness and living in the present, is from the acclaimed Kyle Mewburn. A beautiful contemporar ...Show more
Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series by Carl Reinecke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at th ...Show more
Dear Son: Letters and Reflections from First Nations Fathers and Sons by Thomas Mayo
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Dear Son shares heartfelt letters written by First Nations men about life, masculinity, love, culture and racism. Along with his own vivid and poignant prose and poetry, author and editor Thomas Mayor invites 13 contributors to write a letter to their son, father or nephew, bringing together a range of ...Show more
Line of Blood: The Truth of Alfred Howitt by Craig Horne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'In reading the book, parts of Howitt's character made my skin crawl, but the uncovering of his life was revelatory ... I believe the publication of Line of Blood will be at a very pertinent time' -Bruce PascoeLine of Blood- The Truth of Alfred Howitt tells the full story of Australia's so-called 'ables ...Show more
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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
Banjo by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The remarkable life of Australia's greatest storyteller A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson is rightly recognised as Australia's greatest storyteller and most celebrated poet, the boy from the bush who became the voice of a generation. He gave the nation its unofficial national anthem 'Waltzing Matilda' and treas ...Show more
Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's most colourful criminal characters by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia's master storyteller. The bold, the bad and the slightly mad . . . in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags, Jim Haynes brings us fifteen larger-than-life Aussies - some of the greatest, and most unknown, ne'er do wells from Austral ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Teaching Stories by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories
From beyond the black stump to the Australian Alps; in schools on stations, missions, mines and over the air, it takes a special kind of person to be an outback teacher. Back then, not only did we have to teach the three Rs but also sewing, arts and craft, music, physical education - you name it. Plus t ...Show more
Tour De Oz by Bret Harris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Four years before the inaugural Tour de France, four cyclists known as 'Overlanders' set out on a race around Australia. On 24 November 1896 a wiry and wily bushman named Arthur Richardson left Coolgardie for Adelaide by bicycle. Carrying only a small kit and a water-bag, he followed the telegraph line. ...Show more
Outback Cop by Evan McHugh; Neale McShane
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Birdsville is one of the most remote police postings in Australia. It can be lonely and uneventful for weeks, then the dramas come thick and fast: from desert rescues to rising floods, venomous vipers to visiting VIPs. Throw in heat, dust and flies and it's not a job for the faint-hearted, unless you'r ...Show more
Outback Adventures: Tales from the Top End and Beyond by Matt Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Raised in the wilds of Far North Queensland, Papua New Guinea and outback Australia, as a child Matt Wright would catch deadly snakes for fun or lizards and turtles for show and tell at school.Now the star of National Geographic's worldwide smash TV show, Outback Wrangler,is taking us on a wild adventur ...Show more
Small Wonders by Kaisa Breeden; Stanley Breeden
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Award-winning nature photographers Stanley and Kaisa Breeden explore Australia s small animal life to reveal the wonder and beauty of looking closely into nature. Their specially developed digital photography techniques make it possible to see intriguing details you may never have suspected were there." ...Show more