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My Brilliant Career/My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
$15.00 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Australian Classics
'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore, on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to ...Show more
Neeson Murcutt Neille: Setting Architecture by Anna Johnson, Richard Black
$59.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Interior Design | Series: Editions: Australian Architecture Monographs
Neeson Murcutt Neille demonstrate a deeply empathetic approach to making architecture, one that is integrally connected to landscape, history, identity, culture and place. Whether a surf lifesaving club, a school gymnasium, a museum or a single-family house, each project exists in dialogue with its env ...Show more
Oh Lucky Country by Rosa Cappiello
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Classics Library
Oh Lucky Country (Paese Fortunato) uses first-person point of view to inflate migrant oppression to such absurdist proportions that its swirling narrative boils over into a maelstrom, washing away all migrant clichs. It is a witty, tragi-comic view of Australian society, culture and prejudice.
On the Farm: Our Holiday with Uncle Kev by Roland Harvey (Illustrator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Roland Harvey Australian Holidays Ser.
In this sixth picture book in Roland Harvey's hilarious and delightful vacation adventure series, Uncle Kev has a farm! Kev invites the family for a vacation, then sets them to work on his farm, where the pigs do the polishing and the cows are the happiest in all the hills. There's lots to be done befo ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: A Friend for Grace (Book 2) by Sofie Laguna
$14.95 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1808 . . . and Grace is on board the ship Indispensable with her friend Hannah. The girls wonder what the new land will be like – the convict women say there are giant rats and other strange animals! Then sickness strikes the ship . . . Will they survive to reach the shores of New South Wales?Fol ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: A Home for Grace (Book 4) by Sofie Laguna
$14.95 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Our Australian Girl | Reading Level: 10-13
It's 1808 . . . and Grace loves caring for baby Alice and working with her mistress, Beth, on the property at Rose Hill. Grave tries so hard to be a good servant – but still her master, Tom, doesn't trust her. Does he blame her for what happened to Glory, who is injured and growing sicker every day? ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Daisy All Alone (Book 2) by Michelle Hamer
$15.00 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
Follow Daisy in the second exciting adventure about a girl facing hard times in depression-era Australia It's 1930. . . and Daisy's worst nightmare has come true. She's alone on the streets, separated from her family. Things get worse after the police send her to live at the Melbourne Orphanage. At leas ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Daisy in the Mansion (Book 3) by Michelle Hamer
$15.00 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
Follow Daisy in this third adventure featuring a hopeful girl living in depression-era Australia It's 1930. . . and Daisy has been adopted and whisked away to a beautiful mansion. She's to be a companion to Annie, a girl with a mysterious illness. While Daisy's new life is full of luxuries she could nev ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Daisy on the Road (Book 4) by Michelle Hamer
$15.00 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
Follow Daisy on the fourth and final adventure of a girl seeking her family in depression-era Australia It's 1930. . . and Daisy has finally had news that her dad is alive He's gravely injured somewhere in the bush, and though she doesn't know quite where, Daisy is determined to find him. With help from ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Letty and the Stranger's Lace (Book 2) by Alison Lloyd
$14.95 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Our Australian Girl
IT'S 1841 . . . and Letty and her sister Lavinia have arrived in Sydney town. It's a dangerous place for two girls on their own. When Lavinia gets a job, poor Letty is left feeling useless and alone. Then she meets Mary, a strange woman with a secret . . . .Follow Letty on her adventure in the second ...Show more