Melbourne Remember When by Bob Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Remember dropping into the Coles Cafeteria on Bourke Street for a feast of rashers, sausages and mash, with gravy, from the bain marie? Or catching a 'red rattler' into the city? Eating a hot jam doughnut from the American Doughnut Kitchen van at the Queen Vic markets? If you answered yes to any of thes ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People: Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to term ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: A Life in Pictures and Words from the Banjo Paterson Family Archive by Alistair Campbell
$44.99 AUD
$49.99 (10% off)
Category: Australiana
A stunning collection from the archive of Australia's greatest storyteller, Banjo Paterson. Notebooks, illustrations, photographs, letters and transcripts of some of our best-loved songs, poems and stories have been brought together for the first time. Banjo's great-grandson and sole executor of the po ...Show more
Pioneer Women of the Outback Bush by Isaacs, Jennifer
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
This book is a fascinating insight into the daily lives of women from a variety of backgrounds - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Chinese, Indian and German woman. Pioneer Women provides a unique portrait of how women set up and ran their remote bush hom ...Show more
Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia by Joëlle Gergis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about na ...Show more
Australia's Most Bizarre Crimes by Peter Coleman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
True tales of crimes so bizarre you won't believe them. True tales of crimes so bizarre you might not believe them. The mysterious disappearance of thousands of false teeth, international travel via the postal system, doughnut delivery heists, clowns terrorising a neighbourhood, the theft of a three-st ...Show more
Once Were Wild by Leslie Scott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A captivating memoir about a woman's passion to save the wild brumbies who mysteriously appeared on the rugged landscape of the Mount Beckworth State Forest. When Leslie Scott discovers two brumbies living on the rugged Mount Beckworth, she almost can't believe it. Brumbies don't live in these parts, a ...Show more
Memoirs from the Corner Country: The Story of Mary Hunt by Harold Hunt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
‘Nanna was an imposing woman. She was large and dark, with strong arms and silver hair that fell to her waist ... Her scars bore testament to her physical adventures...yet she remained the epitome of femininity and strength.’ — Gail Hunt, youngest daughter of Harold and Nellie HuntThe Corner Country is ...Show more
A Simpler Time by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
A memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts. Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and val ...Show more
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
LOCAL HEROES VOL 1,2,3 GREATER SHEPPARTON, GOULBURN & VALLEYS,GREATER BENDIGO by SIMMON PANG EXECUTIVE PRODUCE
$99.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Local Heroes Vol. 1 Greater Shepparton - Part the food bowl of Australia. This beautiful hardcover which contains 38 interviews of present and past icons of Greater Shepparton Area comes with a beautiful, lined gift box to preserve this wonderful book. Local Heroes Vol. 2 Goulburn & Murray Valleys ...Show more