Memoirs of an Anzac A First-Hand Account by an AIF Officer in the First World War by John Charles Barrie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The first publication of an AIF officer's revealing memoir. Against his mother's wishes, John Charles Barrie joined the Australian army in 1909. Five years later, he was on his way to Egypt as an officer with the Australian Imperial Force. He survived the war to write his memoirs, which were kept by his ...Show more
I've Been There and Back Again by Joy McKean
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The perfect book for Slim Dusty's legions of fans, whose numbers are still strong even years after his death. Slim Dusty and Joy McKean were famous around Australia for their performances and for their love of the outback and its people. Slim and Joy were awarded a total of 37 Golden Guitars between the ...Show more
Great Australian Scandals and Dust-ups by Eamon Evans
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
From a convict with a taste for human flesh to frozen berries with the taste of hepatitis, and from the Packer family's constant brawling to the time Malcolm Fraser turned up in a hotel lobby, dazed and wearing nothing but a tiny hotel towel. Featuring quirky illustrations and Eamon Evans' signature wi ...Show more
Henry Lawson - Stories and Poems: An Illustrated Treasury by Dee Huxley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
All the best-known favourite poems and stories with delightful illustrations by Dee Huxley bring the characters alive. From The Drovers Wife and the Loaded Dog, to Ballad of the Drover and The Heart of the Swag this charming collection brings the bush ballads to life. With over 15 stories and 40 poems, ...Show more
Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang by H. G. Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we're connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc ('plonk') and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another ...Show more
Error Australis by Ben Pobjie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
We're obsessed with reality television these days yet we so often neglect the greatest reality of all: the reality of our nation, and how it came to be. In Error Australis, TV columnist, comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie recaps the history of Australia from its humble beginnings as a small patch of r ...Show more
Bushranger Tracks Discover The Historic Sites Of Our Wild Colonial Past by Powell Greg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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Bruce Postle: Australia by Bruce Postle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
For more than five decades, multi-award-winning press photographer Bruce Postle captured significant moments in Australian life. In Australia, Bruce Postle captures the places, people and characteristics that make Australia unique. From the sunburnt centre to the roaring surf, charismatic heroes ...Show more
Born in 1956? What else happened? by Ron Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Born in Series
This is the seventh of the 1950s and the thirteenth book overall to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia - one for each year from 1939 to 1968. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to mak ...Show more
Birdsville: My Year in the Back of Beyond by Evan McHugh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
For a town with seventy residents (on a good day), Birdsville is remarkably well known - the Birdsville Track, the rodeo, the pub, the infamous races. With its ruggedness, inaccessibility and larrikin charm, this small town on the edge of the Simpson Desert has become a symbol of the great Australian ou ...Show more
The Best of Henry Lawson: An Illustrated Collection by LAWSON Henry
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This book of Henry Lawson's best poems reveals his gift for capturing the spirit of the Australia of his time and the character of its people.
The Best Australian Poems 2012 by John Tranter (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'I was struck ... by just how many poems depended on the ancient devices of the storyteller ... Many have a lyrical or meditative feel, but most have a story to tell, captured in a brief glimpse of the meaning of life, or a dramatic climax.' -John Tranter In this impressive anthology John Tranter weave ...Show more