Readings Recommends: Australian Studies
Panic
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.
Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you’ll uncover an extraordinary le... Buy or find out more →
After Words: Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
$59.99$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A unique volume of speeches and occasional pieces written entirely by former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian ... Buy or find out more →
Darebin Parklands: Escaping The Claws Of The Machine
$39.95 – Paperback book / Melbourne Books
Darebin parklands, an urban bushland on the Darebin Creek, is well loved by the surrounding community – but that was not always the case. Only 35 years ago, the parkland was dominated by a municipal tip, was weed-infeste... Buy or find out more →
Maximum Security
$34.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Maximum security the toughest classification in the Australian prison system exerts a powerful fascination for us. Housing the nation's worst criminals, the so-called 'intractables', these facilities are settings of viol... Buy or find out more →
Melbourne
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Read our Q&A with Sophie Cunningham about Melbourne.
Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city’s life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degree... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 44: Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague’s words: “The world is split between those who want to save the p... Buy or find out more →
Ocean To Outback: Cosmopolitanism In Contemporary Australia
$39.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
Some of the most enduring conflicts and tensions that have bedevilled Australia in recent years stem from notions of nationality and citizenship, ethnicity and migration, community and place.
Vigorous debates about multi... Buy or find out more →
Bringing The House Down
$29.95 – Paperback book / Connor Court
The only thing that kept me sane, well reasonably sane, during 20 years hard labor was the hilarious things that my erstwhile colleagues became involved in. Not every pollie was as witty as Gough Whitlam, Jim Killen, Jim... Buy or find out more →
The Ballroom: The Melbourne Punk And Post-Punk Seaview Ballroom
$29.95 – Paperback book / Melbourne Books
The Ballroom is a brutally frank memoir of what has become known as one of the most pivotal, fascinating and influential periods of Australian musical and cultural history. The story is illustrated with original flyers a... Buy or find out more →
Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984-2007
$27.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
From 1984 to 2007, Smash Hits became the biggest selling pop magazine in Australia. It had more fizz than a bag of sherbet and millions of teenages were hooked on its mix of song words, interviews, posters, letters and B... Buy or find out more →
Australians Volume 2: Eureka to the Diggers
$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's wide... Buy or find out more →
Looking For The Light On The Hill: Modern Labor's Challenges
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Today, the Australian Labor Party is in crisis. Reduced to minority government after just one term, and at rock bottom in the opinion polls, the party seems to be at a defining moment in its history. The perception of th... Buy or find out more →
The Fog On The Hill: How NSW Labour lost its way
$34.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
The crisis in New South Wales Labor is so deep and has such significant ramifications that we need a massive dose of unadulterated, no-holds-barred honesty.
The man who can deliver this honesty is Frank Sartor. An indepe... Buy or find out more →
Dirty Money
$34.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Random Century
Mining is a dirty business. This book reveals that the real dirt lies in the boardrooms of some of Australia's biggest companies. At home mining is impacting on the lives of every Australian. In Esperance in Western Aust... Buy or find out more →
Australia's Wild Weather
$39.95 – Hardcover book / National Lib Of Aust
Tredinnick considers what it means to be living at time when weather is no longer small talk; it is most of the news. Beautifully written, the author contemplates what weather means to us and how it affects our daily liv... Buy or find out more →
Breaking The Sheep's Back
$39.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Breaking the Sheep's Back is the untold story of the events that led to Australia's biggest industry disaster.
Once a great nation-building icon, the wool business today is but a third of its size when Australia 'rode on... Buy or find out more →
A Forgerer's Tale: The Extraordinary Story Of Henry Svaery, Australia's First Novelist
$20.00 – Paperback book / Arcade
Delve into the many lives of Henry Savery, Australia’s first novelist, described by Tom Keneally as ‘a man whose own story is as picaresque as anything inside the covers of the novel’.
Written with the assistance o... Buy or find out more →
Kinglake-350
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Read Adrian Hyland's interview with Meg Mundell about Kinglake-350.
Kinglake-350 to VKC. Urgent, do you read me?
The fire’s here now. God help us.
Kinglake-350 is a masterpiece of writing about family, community, coun... Buy or find out more →
A History Of Tasmania
$39.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
James Fenton (1820–1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of th... Buy or find out more →
Fear, Faith And Hope: The Long Wet Summer Of 2010-2011
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Fear, faith and hope are just three of the emotions felt by the people of Queensland during the long, wet summer of 2010–2011.
The floods and cyclones of that wet season produced a natural disaster which will continue ... Buy or find out more →
Digger Smith And Australia's Great War
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Smiths were among the first men to land at Gallipoli. Smiths fought and died at Pozières, Bullecourt and Passchendaele. Smiths were wounded – and treated by doctors and nurses named Smith.
At home, Smiths penned patri... Buy or find out more →
Gurindji Journey: A Japanese Historian In The Outback
$49.95 – Paperback book / Nsw University Pr
After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view. Gurindji Journey tells of Hokari’s experienc... Buy or find out more →
The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe: A History Of Aboriginal Involvement With The World Game
$24.95 – Paperback book / Magabala
A first in sporting literature, The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe is the largely untold history of Aboriginal involvement with the ‘world game’. Maynard examines an important aspect of our nation’s sporting history. The accept... Buy or find out more →
Adelaide
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps … Kerryn Goldsworthy’s Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a person... Buy or find out more →
Into The Unknown
$34.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Ludwig Leichhardt is Australia's most intriguing explorer. Born and educated in Prussia in the early 19th century, Leichhardt was a polymath, a man fascinated by the natural world and possessed by a longed for adventure ... Buy or find out more →
The Forgotten Islands
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Michael Veitch has long been fascinated by the islands that lie between mainland Australia and Tasmania. As a child, he was told a mysterious tale about a young man, a lighthouse and one of the islands of Bass Strait. He... Buy or find out more →
Pedder Dreaming: Olegas Truchanas And A Lost Tasmanian Wilderness
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Univ Queensland Pr
In 1972 Lake Pedder in Tasmania's untamed south-west was flooded to build a dam. Wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas, who had spent years campaigning passionately to save the magnificent fresh water lake, had finall... Buy or find out more →
The Sons Of Clovis
$39.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
The Sons of Clovis is a scholarly tour de force. It begins with the Ern Malley affair, establishing previously unrecognised connections between the Australian scene and French symboliste poetry, before embarking on a fas... Buy or find out more →
Noongar Mambara Bakitj
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
A young man follows a kangaroo track deep into the old people’s country. Along the way he meets some spirit creatures (‘mambara’) who allow him to go on. But after he has hunted down the kangaroo, one mambara is angry an... Buy or find out more →
The Australian Book Of Great Trials
$29.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
The Australian Book of Great Trials tells the story of some of the most interesting and important trials in Australian history, including the first ever civil case, brought by two convicts a short time after the First Fl... Buy or find out more →
Mark Strizic: Melbourne, Marvellous To Modern
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
This magnificent collection of photographs arose from the creativity of a young photographer and his adoption of his new home town, Melbourne. His pictures were taken at a time when the Victorian elegance of the city onc... Buy or find out more →
The Greens: Policies, Reality and Consequences
$22.95 – Paperback book / Connor Court
The idea for this book came from an awareness of the alarming void in media analysis of the Greens' policies at a time when they have been gaining in political strength.
This book brings together leading Australian exper... Buy or find out more →
The Catalysts: The Change And Continuity 1910 To 2010
$19.95 – Paperback book /
Longmire’s book The Catalysts: Change and Continuity 1910-2010 is the story of a women’s club based on the sharing of a meal and discussion panel once a month. This book is a wonderful encounter with some of Melbourne’s ... Buy or find out more →
Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom And Australia's Future
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
'We think we are the lucky country, but what we really have is dumb luck—a lot of luck without the planning or strategy to make sure our good fortune lasts.'—Paul Cleary
In Too Much Luck, Paul Cleary shows that the r... Buy or find out more →
Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came In From The Desert
$35.00 – Trade paperback /
In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and ... Buy or find out more →
Gangland Melbourne
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
This compelling and comprehensive book takes you on a tour of Melbourne’s criminal past.
Throughout the past century, Melbourne has spawned its fair share of notorious criminals—some more infamous than others. In this ... Buy or find out more →
Australian Encounters
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
What happened when Bob Hawke locked horns with Frank Sinatra, when Errol Flynn interviewed Fidel Castro, and when Norman Gunston joined Frank Zappa on stage? Australian Encounters is a one-of-a-kind book, written by Shan... Buy or find out more →
So Many Firsts: Liberal Women From Menzies To Turnbull
$39.95 – Paperback book / Federation Press
Margaret Fitzherbert’s new book follows on from her first, Liberal Women, and examines the political lives of women in the Liberal Party from Menzies to Turnbull - their achievements and work for the community.
These p... Buy or find out more →
The Australian Voter: 50 Years Of Change
$49.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
In the 1960s, voting was class and party-based; today, environmentalism, evaluations of economic performance and the personalities of the leaders dominate political debate. Ian McAllister assesses the implications of the... Buy or find out more →
1835: The Founding Of Melbourne And The Conquest Of Australia
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Black Inc
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait – and so changed the... Buy or find out more →
Ali Abdul Vs The King: Muslim Stories From The Dark Days Of White Australia
$26.95 – Paperback book / Uwap
Mahomet Allum, wonder herbalist and ladies' man, bush battler Ali Abdul, the feisty Afghan Rock men, and Sam the republican pearl diver, are some of Deen's 'men from the archives'. To others they are troublemakers and 'l... Buy or find out more →
Darwin Spitfires: The Real Battle For Australia
$39.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
In 1943, a small band of inexperienced Australian and British fighter pilots fought an ongoing air battle in defense of north-western Australia, flying against a formidably skilled and proficient opponent. The air raids ... Buy or find out more →
Half A Citizen: Life On Welfare in Australia
$39.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
What is it really like to be unemployed and on welfare? How do you make ends meet? Does the welfare system actually help people get back into jobs? Half a Citizen draws on in-depth interviews with 150 welfare recipients ... Buy or find out more →
Storm Over Kokoda
$29.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
Most of us have heard of the battered and muddy troops who ‘saved’ Australia on the Kokoda Track during the darkest hours of the Pacific war. Far fewer know of the Australian pilots and aircrew of 75 Squadron who first c... Buy or find out more →
Personal View Photographs 1978 1986
$19.95 – Paperback book / Monash University Epress
In 2004, Janine Burke was looking for a photograph she'd taken of Albert Tucker. Crammed into the bottom drawer of a ?ling cabinet in her study, she discovered hundreds of photographs that she'd taken over the years and ... Buy or find out more →
The First Fleet: The Real Story
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1500 people, set out from England for Botany Bay. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Ro... Buy or find out more →
A Little History Of The Australian Labor Party
$24.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties and was the first in the world to form a government. 2011 marks its 120th birthday. This short and lively book tells the story of the ALP’s numerous successe... Buy or find out more →
Northern Voyages: Australia's Monsoon Coast In Maritime History
$49.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
The maritime history of Australia’s monsoon coast, stretching from Broome to Thursday Island, has a known story that is far older, more complex and more redolent of men against the sea than any other coast of the contine... Buy or find out more →
Beyond White Guilt: The real challenge for Black-White Relations in Australia
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A deeply provocative call for white Australians to take personal responsibility for the ongoing impact of colonisation on Aboriginal Australians. Sarah Maddison's bold and original take on the running sore of black-white... Buy or find out more →
Dick Smith's Population Crisis: The Dangers of Unsustainable Growth for Australia
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Dick Smith takes on the hot topic of our times, arguing that Australian and global population growth carries enormous risks, dangers that none of our political parties is prepared to address.
In 2011 the world's populati... Buy or find out more →
The Bogan Delusion
$22.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
Nothing defies cultured Australia’s sense of itself more than the bogan – that boorish, racist, drunken, sexist, bethonged, Barnesy-loving embarrassment out there in the back blocks. Part travelogue, part social critique... Buy or find out more →
Radical Hope Education And Equality In Australia
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, the... Buy or find out more →
The Protectors: A Journey Through Whitefella Past
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Powerful and provocative, this is a beautifully written and very personal search to understand the men who were the protectors of Aboriginal people in Australia's north - their moral ambiguities, their good intentions an... Buy or find out more →
My School: What Every Parent Needs To Know
$24.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press
A clear and accessible book that answers every likely question parents could have about My School/NAPLAN/choosing a school.
What makes a good school? What should a parent know and what should they ask? This book also cov... Buy or find out more →
Making Trouble: Essays Against The New Australian Complacency
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne.
In Making Trouble, Australia’s leading public intellectual takes aim at the “new Australian complacency”.
Th... Buy or find out more →
Teaching Aboriginal Studies: A Practical Resource for Primary and Secondary Teaching
$49.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A thoroughly revised new edition of this widely used text on teaching Aboriginal issues across the curriculum in Australian schools.
Teaching Aboriginal Studies has been a practical guide for classroom teachers in primar... Buy or find out more →
Whitlam
$29.95 – Paperback book / Rosenberg Publishing
Governor-General Sir John Kerr’s dismissal of the elected Whitlam Government in 1975, more or less at the behest of the Liberal-Country Party Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, was among the most momentous events in Austra... Buy or find out more →
An Eye For Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark
$54.99 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Manning Clark (1915–1991) was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna’s compelling biography of this giant of Australia’s cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark’s extensive private letters, j... Buy or find out more →
Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Lindsay Tanner resigned in 2010 as the ALP’s federal minister for finance and member for Melbourne, having had an 18-year career as an MP, he notably managed to retire with his reputation for integrity intact. In Si... Buy or find out more →
Red Silk: A Biography Of Elliott Johnson QC
$32.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
Elliott Johnston is a working class hero. He and Elizabeth Johnston became Communists in 1941 and he resigned only to join the South Australian Supreme Court Bench. His appointment as Queen's Counsel by the Dunstan Gover... Buy or find out more →
The Enemy At Home: German Internees In World War I Australia
$44.95 – Paperback book / Nsw University Pr
When nearly 7,000 people with German and Austrian heritage were detained by the Australian authorities following the outbreak of World War I, Paul Dubotzki, a talented Bavarian photographer, was among them. These unlikel... Buy or find out more →
There Goes The Neighbourhood: Australia And The Rise Of Asia
$32.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
For the first time in history, Australia will be uncomfortably close to the designs and demarches of competing great powers. In the years ahead, we will no longer be too small to make a difference. In his book, Wesley po... Buy or find out more →
Both Sides Of The Wire: The Memoir Of Captain William Cull
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
This is Bill Cull's unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a POW until the end of the war.
This is Bill Cull's unforget... Buy or find out more →
Great Central State: The Foundation Of The Northern Territory
$39.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
This book tells the sometimes bizarre story of the founding and precarious existence of the Northern Territory up to its constitution as a separate entity in 1911. Acquired by South Australia in 1863, the early years are... Buy or find out more →
The Great Australian Dream: A Guide To Buying Your First Home
$25.00 – Paperback book / Slattery Media Group
The Great Australian Dream is a must-have for anyone considering entering the property market. As house prices soar, the great Australian dream of owning your own home is very quickly slipping out of reach for many Austr... Buy or find out more →
Witnesses To War: The History Of Australian Conflict Reporting
$36.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
'Witnesses to War' is a landmark history of Australian war journalism that covers the major conflicts of the 20th Century: World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Bosnia through to recent and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afgh... Buy or find out more →
Heart Of Arnhem Land
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Longueville
In 1974, Francois Giner had his first taste of northern Australia, not realising that it would be the start of a 36-year sojourn and adventure, far from his hometown of Lodeve, in southern France. As a teenager, Giner ha... Buy or find out more →
Notorious Australian Women
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Abc Books
The sensational lives and exploits of some of Australia′s most audacious women
Notorious Australian Women celebrates the lives of some of Australia′s most fearless, brash and scandalous women. There′s Tilly Devine, who... Buy or find out more →
The Great Australian Novel: A Panorama
$24.99 – Paperback book / Brolga Publishing
Written originally for a French audience to inform them about the richness of Australian writing, The Great Australian Novel – A Panorama now appears in a remastered English version. It is a story of Australia, its peopl... Buy or find out more →
Boat People: Personal Stories From The Vietnamese Exodus 1975-1996
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Freemantle Press
The years 1975 to 1996 were witness to the largest mass migration in modern history, with more than a million people leaving their war-torn homeland, Vietnam, in search of safety.
Forces migrations are usually fraught wi... Buy or find out more →
Anzac Fury
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
From Tobruk to the Battle of Crete - the new bestseller from the author of PACIFIC FURY.
ANZAC FURY commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Gree... Buy or find out more →
Crack Hardy
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
"Crack hardy" was a saying among Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War trenches. It means, "Grin and bear it. Put on a brave face."
This is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle bro... Buy or find out more →
The Business Of Nature: John Gould And Australia
$49.95 – Hardcover book / National Lib Of Aust
In 1838, John Gould and his wife, Elizabeth, left behind their family and home in London to travel to the far-flung colony of Van Diemens Land, from where Gould would travel around the mainland to observe the native faun... Buy or find out more →
Sempre Con Te, Always With You
$49.95 – Paperback book / Powerhouse Books
Sempre Con Te (Always with you) tells the fascinating and very personal stories of Italian women who migrated to Sydneys Northern beaches during the early 20th century. The stories of nine of these women, all from the ha... Buy or find out more →
Watch This Space: The Future Of Australian Journalism
$34.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
With traditional print media sinking under shrinking readerships, redundancies and declining advertising revenue, the imminent death of 'quality' journalism is being prophesied by academics, publishers and journalists. A... Buy or find out more →
All Day Long The Noise Of Battle
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
During the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in February 1968 an Australian infantry company assaulted a North Vietnamese bunker complex. In the longest sustained attack fought by Australians during the Vietnam War the soldiers w... Buy or find out more →
Willingly Into The Fray: One Hundred Years Of Australian Nursing
$34.99 – Hardcover book / Big Sky Publishing
Comprises the personal stories of sixty-five individual nurses, their voices preserved and their words, often fraught with emotion and mired in distress at what they have seen, endured and railed against, carefully retai... Buy or find out more →
Bomber
$24.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Tony "Bomber" Bower-Miles was a young sapper in the Australian Army when he first went to Vietnam in 1969. Landmines were one of the biggest threats faced by troops on both sides, and much of Bomber's work involved task ... Buy or find out more →
Gallipoli
$34.99 – Paperback book / Big Sky Publishing
The first book since Charles Bean's Official History to provide a detailed narrative of the bloody and tragic battle for Hill 60, along with the other engagements that went on until the very last days at Anzac - viewed f... Buy or find out more →
Batavia
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Heinemann
The greatest story in Australia’s history.
The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-d... Buy or find out more →
The Many Worlds Of R.H. Mathews: In Search Of An Australian Anthropologist
$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews is about the life and work of the renowned 19th century surveyor turned ethnologist, R.H. Mathews, whose studies of Aboriginal Australia were path-breaking and quite controversial. His chi... Buy or find out more →
Suddenly, Last Winter: An Election Diary
$32.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Just as Bob Ellis's last book One Hundred Days of Summer, about Tony Abbott's ascension to the Liberal leadership, was ready to hit the shelves, the nation was stunned to witness Labor suddenly call time on Kevin Rudd's ... Buy or find out more →
Speech Matters: Getting Free Speech Right
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Why is Australia’s current attitude towards freedom of speech harmful to democracy?
Australia is the land of the ‘fair go’. But does this attitude extend to freedom of speech? Unlike the US, Australia has no Bill of Ri... Buy or find out more →
Australian Prime Ministers
$39.95 – Hardcover book / New Holland Pub
Larrikins or patricians, socialists or silvertails - in the century following Federation, Australia's prime ministers were as diverse as the nation they served. Some came from backgrounds of rural or urban poverty and we... Buy or find out more →
The Way They Were: The View From The Hill Of The 25 Years That Remade Australia
$34.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
For many years reading Alan Ramsey’s vitriolic, vindictive but always entertaining and insightful pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald was a standard feature of Saturday mornings for many Australians. He may have disappea... Buy or find out more →
Boyer Lectures: The Republic Of Learning: Higher Education Transforms Australia
$24.99 – Paperback book / Abc Books
ach year the ABC Board invites a prominent Australian to present six radio lectures expressing their thoughts on major social, cultural, scientific or political issues. In 2010 Professor Glyn Davis presents the 51st Boye... Buy or find out more →
How Australia Decides: Election Reporting And The Media
$49.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
In recent years, the Australian media have come under fire for their reporting of politics and election campaigns. Political reporting is said to be too influenced by commercial concerns, too obsessed with gossip and sca... Buy or find out more →
The Dreaming And Other Essays
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as 'The Dreaming' Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he ex... Buy or find out more →
The Politics Of Suffering (New Edition)
$36.99$12.95 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.
"Incandescent, emotional, tragic and challenging' - Marcia Langton
Peter Sutton is a fearless and au... Buy or find out more →
The Australians: Insiders And Outsiders On The National Character Since 1770
$14.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
US General Douglas MacArthur, on the Australians fighting on the Kokoda Track, 1942: “Operations reports show that progress on the trail is NOT repeat NOT satisfactory.” To which Major-General A.S. Allen drafted this rep... Buy or find out more →
The Pocketbook Of Aussie History
$4.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
When was the first Melbourne cup, and which horse won? Who was the first woman to stand for federal parliament? What’s the second verse of ‘Advance Australia Fair’? And why was Vegemite renamed Parwill in 1928?
Her... Buy or find out more →
Botany Bay: The Real Story
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.
We all know the conventional story. Established as a dumping ground for Britain’s criminals, Australia ... Buy or find out more →
Cities Pack (Hobart, Brisbane, Sydney)
$79.85$59.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Special bind-up of the first three books in the cities series written by prolific Australian authors - Hobart, Brisbane and Sydney.
Sydney by Delia Falconer
"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, w... Buy or find out more →
Man Bites Murdoch
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
An explosive account of almost 40 years in the news business that exposes the inner workings of the world's biggest media company.
Man Bites Murdoch is Bruce Guthrie's explosive account of almost 40 years in the news bus... Buy or find out more →
Transport: An Australian History
$49.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Trains, planes, boats and cars. What did Australians do before the invention of modern transport? Aborigines travelled by foot and used canoes made from large sheets of bark stripped from eucalyptus trees, but with Europ... Buy or find out more →
The Best Australian Essays 2010
$29.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In The Best Australian Essays 2010, Robert Drewe collects the year’s finest works of non-fiction. These essays roam widely, capturing the preoccupations and events of the previous year. Showcasing our finest writers on a... Buy or find out more →
Shack: In Praise of an Australian Icon
$39.95 – Paperback book / Lantern Books
In Australia shacks have become our protest against the brick veneer, the place where we unwind on holiday, the workshop that feeds our soul.
Photographer Simon Griffiths has travelled the countryside, from Jericho in Ta... Buy or find out more →
The Party Thieves: The Real Story of the 2010 Election
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Barrie Cassidy picked a hell of an election to cover: changes of leaders on both sides of politics, Australia’s first woman Prime Minister, a hung parliament, a Green and independent ascendancy, and a country not knowing... Buy or find out more →
The Australian Book Of Atheism
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Does the Anzac ethos have roots in atheism? Does prayer have a place in Parliament? Should ‘creation science’ be taught in Australian schools? Is atheism maligned in political debate? Will Australia’s future be godless?... Buy or find out more →
Henry Ayers: The Man Who Became A Rock
$58.00 – Hardcover book / I B Tauris
'The most wonderful natural feature I have ever seen.' With these words the explorer William Gosse expressed the awe he and many others have felt at the natural phenomenon of Uluru. The first white person to reach the ce... Buy or find out more →
Hell's Only Half Full
$24.95 – Paperback book / National Museum Of Australia
Hell’s Only Half Full tells the colourful story of Victorian pioneer–settler Lucy Little (Nan) through the lives of three generations of her family. It is essentially a gritty yet engaging story of strong, resourceful ... Buy or find out more →
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
On childhood holidays to the beach the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a w... Buy or find out more →
25 Years Of Australian Geographic Photography
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Woodslane
Twenty-Five years ago Australian Geographic began documenting all facets of Australia and Australians.From the Red Deserts to the Coral reefs, from Suburban landscapes to outback Aboriginal Australia these photographs re... Buy or find out more →
Culture Crisis: Anthropology And Politics In Aboriginal Australia
$49.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
In 2007 the Australian Government recognised that the health, safety and education of the nation’s remote Aboriginal citizens were in a state of crisis. Its response was what became known as the Northern Territory Interv... Buy or find out more →
Australian Encounters
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
What happened when Bob Hawke locked horns with Frank Sinatra, when Errol Flynn interviewed Fidel Castro, and when Norman Gunston joined Frank Zappa on stage? Australian Encounters is a one-of-a-kind book, written by Shan... Buy or find out more →
Islam Dreaming: Indigenous Muslims In Australia
$49.95 – Paperback book / Nsw University Pr
Indigenous Australians are increasingly finding in Islam the possibility of reconnection with lost Indigenous traditions and a model of community unavailable elsewhere. But this is not a new story. From the Makassan trep... Buy or find out more →
First People: The Eastern Kulin Of Melbourne, Port Phillip And Central Victoria
$24.95 – Paperback book / Museum Victoria
This is the only up-to-date book available about the Eastern Kulin peoples. The Kulin nation lived around Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River valley and their territory stretched as far north as the Murray River at Echu... Buy or find out more →