Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's most colourful criminal characters by Jim Haynes
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
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
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia by Michael Adams
35.00 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vaga ...Show more
The Ballad of Abdul Wade: The Incredible True Story of Australia's unsung Pioneering Heroes - The Afghan Camelleers by Ryan Butta
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
When Afghan entrepreneur Abdul Wade first brought his camel trains to the outback, he was hailed as a hero. Horses couldn t access many remote settlements, especially those stricken by flood or drought, and camel trains rode to the rescue time and time again. But with success came fierce opposition fuel ...Show more
A Pocketful of Poems - Aussie Flavoured Rhyming Verse by Murray Hartin
19.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
This is not a book you read once and toss in the cupboard. This book will become dog-eared and tattered as your re-read it and pass it around. Its your go-to book to get a great big taste of Australia. And with Muzs poetry the flavour is always spot on.
Outback Teacher: The inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia by Sally Gare
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
A charming story of a young woman who faces challenges and finds joy teaching in outback schools
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train bef ...Show more
Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books convenie ...Show more
The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Publisher of Griffith Review, Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity. Maybe because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration ha ...Show more
Great Australian Mysteries: Spine-tingling tales of disappearances, secrets, unsolved crimes and lost treasure by Graham Seal
32.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Australia's master storyteller Graham Seal brings to life the enigmas and puzzles behind famous unsolved crimes, long-held secrets, buried loot and strange phenomena from the bush and the city. Australia has always been a land of mysteries. Some are ancient, some are historical, and many continue to per ...Show more
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's greatest explorer by Peter FitzSimons
49.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by one of Australia's greatest storytellers. Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who eve ...Show more
Black Summer: Stories of loss, courage and community from the 2019-2020 bushfires by Rowland Michael
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Told by ABC journalists who were on the ground and broadcasting during our worst ever fire season, spearheaded by Michael Rowland The bushfires that burnt across Australia from June 2019 to February
Whatever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head? by Eamon Evans
29.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Who stole the priceless Picasso from the NGV? Was Errol Flynn a Nazi spy? Did an Australian kill the infamous Red Baron? If you think Australia's history is straightforward, you're dead wrong. This is a land of the strange, the spooky and the unexplained. From the eerie ball of light that stalked a terr ...Show more