Auntie Rita: The classic memoir of an Aboriginal woman’s love and determination by Rita Huggins, Jackie Huggins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Auntie Rita is a revised edition of the bestselling and award-winning memoir of Aboriginal woman Rita Huggins first published in 1994. Rita battled dispossession, poverty, personal tragedy and racism to create a rich meaningful life, lived out during the momentous changes of the 20th century. ‘Most peop ...Show more
Jimmy Sharman's Boxers: Australia's legendary travelling boxing troupe by Stephen McGrath
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his u ...Show more
Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty
$25.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Harvest Lingo is the fourteenth collection of poems by Lionel Fogarty, a Murri man with traditional connections to the Yugambeh people from south of Brisbane and the Kudjela people of north Queensland. He is a leading Indigenous rights activist, and one of Australia’s foremost poets, and this collection ...Show more
Sydney Harbour Bridge ID Chart: ID chart by New Holland Publishers
$7.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Sydney Harbour Bridge is a landmark of Australia. The Bridge, along with the nearby Sydney Opera House, offers a breathtaking view of Sydney and is considered an iconic image of both the city and Australia as a whole. This easy-to-use fold-out chart illustrates the Sydney Harbour Bridge and identifies k ...Show more
Many Maps: Charting Two Cultures: First Nations Australians and European Settlers in Western Australia by Bill Bunbury; Jenny Bunbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps can be drawn and interpreted in different ways. It is possible to map a path through life, find a way through a forest, traverse a desert or chart ...Show more
Seven Seasons in Aurukun: My unforgettable time at a remote Aboriginal school by Paula Shaw
$26.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Arriving in a tiny Aboriginal community in far north Queensland, Paula had little idea what to expect. Seven Seasons in Aurukun is her very personal story of teaching at the local school and making a life for herself in a challenging new world. In the unrelenting tropical heat, she discovers there's an ...Show more
Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi battled and defeated a mining giant by Paul Cleary
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A David-and-Goliath story set in the ancient landscape of the Pilbara In the space of just fifteen years, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built a global iron-ore giant generating $19 billion in revenue a year. But in its rush to develop, FMG has damaged and destroyed ancient Aborig ...Show more
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War by Phillip Deery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at counter ...Show more
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia by Elizabeth Tynan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and the fact that it was largely forgotten makes it more intriguing. Only at Emu Field did a terrifying black mist speed across the la ...Show more
The Women Who Changed Country Australia: Celebrating 100 years of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales by Liz Harfull
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A compelling and thoroughly researched account of the CWA of NSW - its beginnings, its remarkable achievements and the indomitable women who have driven each one of its many successes.
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more
Bush Life: Stories from the beating heart of rural Australia
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Told through the camera lens of ten exceptional photographers, Bush Life explores the vibrant world of creative living that exists beyond our city limits. There's an authenticity to bush life - an appreciation of raw beauty, simple rituals and genuine people. A grit and resilience that's both bolstering ...Show more