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Born Again Blakfella by Jack Charles
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
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 and Memoir | Series: Senior Australian of the Year | Reading Level: 3 Biography
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
Bushrangers by Kenneth Muir
$13.99 AUD
$20.00 (30% off)
Category: Children | Series: Australian Timelines Ser.
This is the story of the wild colonial boys -- the bushrangers who terrorised the highways and back roads of regional Australia for a century from 1788. This diverse group of criminals varied from 'gentlemen' to outright psychopaths, from hold-up merchants to murderers. The book relates how their very d ...Show more
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
$15.00 AUD
Category: Default | 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
Christmas - Trends Series by Australian Women's Weekly
$24.95 AUD
Category: Default | Series: "Australian Women's Weekly"
The newest title in the series that began with Cupcakes.
Church of the Open Sky by Nat Young
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Pastimes | Series: Australian Surfer | Reading Level: 3 Biography
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
$20.00 AUD
Category: Default | 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
Conscription Conflict & the Great War by Robin Archer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics and Society | Series: Australian History
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a ...Show more
Cosmic Chronicles - A user's guide to the Universe by Fred Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Users Guide to the Universe - Australian | Reading Level: near fine
Are we alone in the universe? Where didthe moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Could there reallybe a future in asteroid mining? In CosmicChronicles, Fred Watson - Australia'sAstronomer-at-Large and bestselling author - explores the hottest topics inspace science and astronomy. Watso ...Show more
Cunning Crow by Gregg Dreise
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: Australian
Age range 5 to 12 Remember — beauty comes from within... Way back, before once-upon-a-time, there was the Dreamtime when all the birds were white. One of those white birds was a crow called Waan. One day a big storm came through and a magnificent rainbow appeared. When the birds passed through the rainb ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more