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Best of Australian Poems 2023 by Gig Ryan (ed.), Panda Ryan (ed.)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Best of Australian Poems Ser.
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2022 - 1 August 2023, the series, now in its third ...Show more
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti ...Show more
Bombing of Darwin (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
"More bombs exploded and within seconds several ships were on fire. Japanese planes flew so close to me that I could not only see the red circles painted under their wings, but I could see the pilots' faces. It only took a moment." It was a moment that Tom would always remember - that morning of 19 Febr ...Show more
Born Again Blakfella by Jack Charles
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Born at the Right Time: A Memoir by Ron McCallum
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Senior Australian of the Year
Blind from birth, Ron regards himself as fortunate to have been born at a time when ever improving technology has enabled him to live a rich and full life, and to become a professor of law at one of Australia's most prestigious universities. Ron McCallum has been blind from birth. When he was a child, ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
$99.00 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
Bridget: A New Australian by James Moloney
$15.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: New Australian
Bridget's family has been turned out of their home during the Irish potato famine and their only refuge is the workhouse where living conditions are hard and freezing and the food sparse. There is one chance for Bridget and her sister - to take a ship to a new country and become Australians. But will th ...Show more
Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Amy is staying in Marysville with her grandmother, and help in the garden and clean out her gutters. It is, after all, bushfire season. As summer arrives, so do the fires, and Dad is busy helping control the flames in bushfires that have started burning in Victoria. But it is early February 2009, and th ...Show more
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal. 'Capricornia will always be one of the greatest of Australian novels, a defining w ...Show more
Church of the Open Sky by Nat Young
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: Australian Surfer
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have ...Show more
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - Penguin Australian Classics by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Two rural families - the Pickles and the Lambs - flee to the city after separate catastrophes. They find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch - and for twenty years, they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the ...Show more
Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis ...Show more