The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures by Mikey Robins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein The history books are full of heroes and villains… but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one idiot at a ti ...Show more
100 Weirdest Tales from Across Australia by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth Fish falling out of the sky, joggers relieving themselves on your doorstep, mysterious monsters constantly springi ...Show more
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Australian History Prize. First Runner Up for Templer Medal Book Prize (UK). Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize, the ACT Notable Book Awards, and the Reid Prize.A remarkable new book about Operation ...Show more
Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's most colourful criminal characters by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
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
Telling Tennant's Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by Dean Ashenden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Tennant Creek and Australia's Unresolved Past The tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact.Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out ...Show more
Pilot On Board: The 175th Anniversary History of the Port Phillip Sea Pilots by Brendan Moloney
$79.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
Banjo by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
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
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have m ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more