Melbourne: A Love Affair (St Kilda Pier Jacket) by Matt Irwin
$99.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Twenty five years since he took his first shot, photographer Matt Irwin still remembers riding his bike around Melbourne as a seventeen year old, camera slung over his shoulder. “I have a massive love for cinema so you could say I’ve got a cinematic eye, but Melbourne was showing off in front of me and ...Show more
The River: A Journey Through the Murray-Darling Basin by Chris Hammer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
"In The River, Chris Hammer takes us on a journey through Australia's heartland, following the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin, recounting his experiences, his impressions, and, above all, stories of the people he meets along the way. It's a journey punctuated with laughter, sadness and reflection. T ...Show more
Ochre And Rust - Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers by Philip Jones
$65.00 AUD
Category: Australiana | Reading Level: near fine
Takes Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and traces their stories, revealing charge and nuanced moments of encounter in Australia's frontier history. Special Price A$24.00 valid 01/09/08-13/10/08 ALIA Conference 08
Great Australian Ghost Stories by Richard Davis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia has a rich history of ghost sightings and spooky tales, from the time of European settlement until today - and they are all here in GREAT AUSTRALIAN GHOST STORIES. From gore-spattered convicts and elegant women out of our colonial past to the mysterious ghost lights of the outback and angry po ...Show more
The Daddie of the Field: the Kelly Story from Ballinasloe to Barwidgee by Katrina Weatherly
$75.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
An absorbing and sometimes lively account of a family who have contributed much to the growth of this country. Katrina Weatherly gives an insider's perspective to her family story, interweaving much that will inform and interest all about the development of agriculture, mining, business and industry in ...Show more
On Radji Beach - Vivian Bullwinkel and the Vyner Brooke by Ian W. Shaw
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded a coastal freighter named the Vyner Brooke. They only made it as far as the waters off Muntok Island near Sumatra. There, Ja ...Show more
Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream - Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head- first into schooling, romance and ...Show more
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
Kath's Miracle - The Story Behind Saint Mary MacKillop's Second Miracle by Kathleen Evans, Sarah Minns
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Kathleen Evans was an ordinary woman from an ordinary suburb on the NSW central coast. Although a committed Catholic, she wasn't excessively pious and had even had a decade-long disagreement with her Church after her philandering husband divorced her. Then in 1993, after finding love for the second time ...Show more
Ian Gawler: The Dragon's Blessing by Guy Allenby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The inspiring life story of cancer survivor and renowned mind-body pioneer, Ian Gawler. In 1974 Dr Ian Gawler, an ambitious young veterinarian and athlete, developed bone cancer in his right leg. The leg was amputated at the hip. The following year, the cancer spread to his pelvis and chest. Gawler was ...Show more