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Macquarie (HB) by Grantlee Kieza
39.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming the harsh, foreboding penal colony of New Holland into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society. He also help ...Show more
Monash by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia; the first major biography of Monash in over a decade. John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much - heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider: poor, Jewish in an era which still practised anti - Semitism, bookish at a ...Show more
Monash : The Soldier Who Shaped Australia by Grantlee Kieza
39.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia - the first major biography of Monash in over a decade John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider, poor, Jewish in an era which still practiced anti-Semitism, bookish at a ti ...Show more
Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly's Mother by Grantlee Kieza
39.99 AUD
Category: NEW RELEASE
The astonishing life of Ned Kelly's mother Ellen Kelly was born during the troubles in Ireland. When she arrived in Melbourne in 1841 aged nine, British convict ships were still dumping their unhappy cargo in what was then known as the colony of New South Wales. When she died at the age of 91 in 1923, h ...Show more
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
35.99 AUD
Category: NEW RELEASE
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo. Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-s ...Show more
Sons Of The Southern Cross: rebels, revolutions, Anzacs and the spirit of Australia's fighting flag by Grantlee Kieza
39.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
Ever since the Southern Cross flag was 'born' in the minefields of Victoria it's been a symbol for a rebellious Australian spirit - from the battles of Eureka to those of Ned Kelly, from the birth of the Labor Party to the Anzacs at Galliopoli. The men and women involved took the flag as their symbol. B ...Show more
The Hornet: From Bullied Schoolboy To World Champion by Jeff Horn; Grantlee Kieza
39.99 AUD
Category: SPORT
My journey from bullied schoolboy to world champion The story of Jeff Horn reads like a fairytale. Written with award-winning author, journalist and boxing aficionado Grantlee Kieza, The Hornet is the tale of a boy who, slapped around by bullies, saw through tears in his eyes a vision of himself as a he ...Show more
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
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
34.99 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
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