The Great Aussie Road Trip - New Back Roads book from the host of the popular ABC TV series: 20 spectacular trips to take around our special land by Heather Ewart
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Heather's favourite road trips around Australia, revealing towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. There's no better way to see this vast country of ours than by hitting roads along the coastline, or heading inland ...Show more
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories by Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter
$49.99 AUD
$59.99 (16% off)
Category: Indigenous Australiana
The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter - including lyrics, stories, photographs and tributes. A year after he entered the Dreamtime, Archie Roach's spirit continues to soar, much like the wedge-tailed eagle - his totem animal from his mother' ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. 'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...'Boasting the biggest beats ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter: The new book from bestselling author and ABC journalist for readers of I CATCH KILLERS, MY MOTHER A SERIAL KILLER and LARRIMAH by Jamelle Wells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Muster Dogs From Pups to Pros by Lisa Millar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
How ten dogs stole the hearts of millions and changed lives forever, for fans of the TV show now streaming on Netflix and ABC iView When Muster Dogs first hit screens in 2022, viewers were enchanted. Five lively kelpie pups adopted into farming homes across Australia and put on an intensive training pr ...Show more
Noongar Bush Medicine: Medicinal Plants of the South-West of Western Australia by John Horsfall, Vivienne Hansen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Australiana
This practical reference guide provides, for the first time, comprehensive information on the medicinal plants that were used by Aboriginal people of the southwest of Western Australia before European settlement. This interesting and in-depth guide to how to use plants for alternative treatments and pro ...Show more
Always Was, Always Will Be: The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues by Thomas Mayo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2024 - PRE-ORDER NOW! In Always Was, Always Will Be, bestselling author Thomas Mayo investigates ‘what's next?’ for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum. Since the referendum, supporters and volunteers have been asking ...Show more
Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession: The Epic Race to Connect Australia to the World by David Dufty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong. It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth century Australia, but it very nearly collapsed in the face of monumental obstacles. The year was 1870, and ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the Eur ...Show more
Homeland Heroes - From Australian Disasters Heroes Are Born by Mal Walden
$25.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia's favourite newsman, Mal Walden, continues his theme of unique Australian stories with Homeland Heroes. This is a tribute to those who have demonstrated incredible bravery and self-sacrifice in the face of overwhelming odds. Out of disasters, heroes are born. Homeland Heroes pays tribute to o ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Amazing Australian tales of pure dumb luck by Eamon Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Eamon Evans dives deep to deliver the most hilarious, fascinating tales of the Australians who were almost too lucky to be believed. The happy accident that created wi-fi. The well-placed piece of coral that saved the Endeavour from sinking. The karaoke night that launched Kylie's singing career.Austral ...Show more