Angels of Mercy by Lynette Ramsay Silver
19.99 AUD
39.99 (50% off)
Category: Australian History
Angels of Mercy: Far West & Far East follows the gripping stories of two different Australiannursing sisters, who overcame the challenging adversities of two very different circumstances.In the 1930s, Marjorie Silver was employed by The Far West Childrens Health Scheme andbecame their first permanen ...Show more
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ...Show more
Aussie Midwives by Fiona McArthur
32.99 AUD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
'Being present as the midwife at a baby's birth is one of life's glorious adventures.'In a new edition, twenty Australian midwives reflect on their practice and its changes with passionate midwife and bestselling author Fiona McArthurMidwives play a vital role in supporting women through some of the mos ...Show more
Australia According To Hoges: Laugh out loud yarns and stories from a legendary iconic Australian and author of the hilarious bestselling memoir THE TAP DANCING KNIFE THROWER by Paul Hogan
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
'We're not perfect, but we're working on it' -- Hoges' love letter to Australia Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have been coming ever since, ...Show more
Australian Dreaming Stories by Ellen Anderson
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Aboriginal storyteller Ellen Anderson told these stories to C.W. Peck for his AUSTRALIAN LEGENDS (1923). Introduced by Michael Organ.
Australia's Military History for Dummies by Horner
42.99 AUD
45.00 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
The simple and easy way to get your mind around Australia's military history More people are visiting Gallipoli and walking the Kokoda Trail each year — now find out why. This complete guide helps you trace the story of Australia's involvement in war, from the colonial conflicts with the Indigenous popu ...Show more
BITIN' BACK by CLEVEN VIVIENNE
22.95 AUD
23.95 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
A rollicking, comic novel that nimbly blends the realities of racial intolerance and smalltown prejudice. When the Blackouts' starplayer Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and eyeshadow, his mum's idle days at bingo are gone forever. Winner of the 2000 David Unaipon Award for unpublished Abor ...Show more
Banjo's Best Loved Poems: Chosen by His Grand-daughters by Paterson Banjo
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
The poems in this collection were chosen by Paterson's granddaughters - those that have proved most popular as well as their own particular favourites.Time spent reading ths book will be time spent with old, familiar friends. There is a warmth, richness and humour about the poems of Banjo Paterson that ...Show more
Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s by Marion Houldsworth
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian Biography
Growing up in North Queensland in the early 1900's. Australian children of this new millennium takes for granted a lofestyle that includes videos, T.V. Soapies, DVDs, computer games. But the children of a hundred years ago, the Federation era, had a different set of expectations. They walked barefoot th ...Show more
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
Bataviais the greatest story in Australia?s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mu ...Show more
Beyond Borders: Patrick Tjungurrayi by Hetti Perkins, John Carty, Sarah Brown
42.99 AUD
45.00 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Ala. Alatuti. Oloodoodi. Patrick. Tjungurray. He is a man of many names, and they speak to many lives lived. Each handle gets held for a while in different times and places. He was a young warrior by his first name, but by each of his subsequent names he has stood just as proud. By each of those names h ...Show more