State Library of Victoria Books
Bert and Ned: The Correspondance of Albert Tucker and Sidney Noloan
$49.95 – Hardback / Melbourne University Press
Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan were friends and rivals but never antagonists for the whole of their working lives as artists. Together they participated in the struggle to establish modern art in Australia. Covering more than 30... Buy or find out more→
Long Views And Short Vistas Victorias 19th Century Public Botanic Gardens
$49.95 – Paperback
Gwen Pascoe’s ‘Long views and short vistas’: Victoria’s nineteenth-century public botanic gardens explores the story of botanic gardens established in Melbourne and other Victorian towns in the second half of the nineteenth... Buy or find out more→
Latrobe Journal
$25.00 – Paperback
This special edition of The LaTrobe Journal focuses on the Muslim experience in Australia and includes several contributions by University staff, including articles on the history of Muslims in Australia, Persian... Buy or find out more→
The True Story of Ned Kelly's Last Stand
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Using science, history and family lore to unearth a new understanding of how a legend was made this is the full story of the most famous siege in Australian history - the man and the myth; the people great and small. When Ned... Buy or find out more→
Melbourne by Menu
$34.95 – Paperback / The Slattery Media Group (AFL Publishing)
Acclaimed food writer Rita Erlich charts Melbourne's burgeoning restaurant scene during the 1980s through her fascinating collection of menus and recipes. With compelling essays spanning the decade, readers are afforded a... Buy or find out more→
Characters: Cultural Stories Revealed Through Typography
$49.95 – Hardback / Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
Characters presents a selection of stories about the signs seen around a city – in this case Melbourne – that have helped to shape its character and its intriguing history. The places, experiences and stories are unique... Buy or find out more→
Burke & Wills: the Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition
$59.95 – Hardback / CSIRO Publishing
This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian Exploring Expedition as a serious... Buy or find out more→
Detective Piggott's Casebook: True Tales of Murder, Madness and the Rise of Forensic Science
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Welcome to hell, a world at war. The streets of Melbourne no longer a tidy grid but fractured with laneways like cracks in old varnish, a hotchpotch of chaos – of shanties and factories, woodpiles and chimneys – the city... Buy or find out more→
Gun Alley: Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
In the early morning of New Year’s Eve 1921, 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke’s naked body was found in Gun Alley, a dead-end Melbourne lane. She had been raped and strangled. In an atmosphere of public frenzy, the police were pushed... Buy or find out more→
JJ Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance
$59.99 – Hardback / UNSW Press
Colonial architect John James Clark was fourteen when he began practising as an architect. By the age of nineteen he had designed the Melbourne Treasury, Australia's finest Renaissance Revival building, which celebrates its... Buy or find out more→
Sunday's Garden: Growing Heide
$45.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
When Sunday and John Reed purchased Heide, now the site of Heide Museum of Modern Art, it was a neglected former dairy farm. At the end of their lives, it was unique among Melbourne’s parklands, densely forested with exotic and... Buy or find out more→
Latrobe Journal 87 Queen City Of The South Gay And Lesbian Melbourne
$35.00 – Paperback
Latrobe Journal 87 Queen City of the South: Gay and Lesbian Melbourne presents a history that will be new to many readers. Using archives, remembrance, experience and reflection, the various contributors bring... Buy or find out more→
The Matrix
$89.95 – Hardback / Macmillan Art Publishing
In printmaking, the artform along with painting, photography and the making of artists' books that has occupied Bruno Leti for the last half century, the matrix is the object that carries the image the artist has made with the... Buy or find out more→
The Garden of Ideas: 250 Years of Australian Garden Style
$64.99 – Hardback / Melbourne University Press
From the imaginings of migrant garden-makers of the late-18th century to the concerns of 21st century gardeners, this book charts its way across four centuries through a handsome and satisfying fusion of images and text. Includes... Buy or find out more→
Beyond Reasonable Drought
$24.95 – Paperback / The Five Mile Press Pty Ltd
Early this century, a group of photographers crisscrossed the nation, and captured a seismic shift in the way Australians were living their lives. Caught in these photographer's lenses were the faces and the stories of communities... Buy or find out more→
When We Think About Melbourne
$34.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
What exactly makes Melbourne unique? And why do we always struggle to describe the city's differences? This book is a wry and whimsical survey of the city's x-factor. It observes with a keen and appreciative eye the changing... Buy or find out more→
Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe: Papers of a Conference Held at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 28 March-15 June 2008
$99.95 – Hardback / Macmillan Art Publishing
With extensive illustrated essays by Jeffrey Hamburger and Margaret Manion, accompanied by papers presented by sixteen further scholars in the field, this 256 page publication presents a rich range of studies on the subject of... Buy or find out more→
Latrobe Journal Indigenous Victorians
$35.00 – Paperback / State Library of Victoria Foundation
Provides a major contribution to the understanding and appreciation of the lives and aspirations of Victorian Aborigines and their interaction with white Australians from the beginnings of European settlement to the present day. Buy or find out more→
Capital: Melbourne at the Centre of the World 1901-1927
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
In 1901 the Australian colonies came together to form a new nation which, for the next twenty-six years, was governed from Melbourne. It was a small city, a place where people knew each other—not just the people... Buy or find out more→
Beyond Reasonable Drought: Photographs of a Changing Land and Its People
$39.95 – Hardback / The Five Mile Press Pty Ltd
Early this century, as drought gripped the nation, a group of photographers crisscrossed the country, and captured a seismic shift in the way Australians were living their lives. Caught in these photographers' lenses were the... Buy or find out more→
Botanical Riches: Stories of Botanical Exploration
$14.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Century after century, intrepid plant hunters and botanists travelled to exotic climes, collecting seeds and specimens. Searching for plants with economic value, medicinal benefits, or purely for lavish display, these botanical... Buy or find out more→
Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes
$25.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Voyages to the South Seas recounts the epic journeys of French explorers to Australia and encompasses a remarkable period of French and Australian history--when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her... Buy or find out more→
Cyril Hopkins Marcus Clarke
$44.00 – Paperback / Australian Scholarly Publishing
This biography of Marcus Clarke was written a century ago by Cyril Hopkins, brother of Gerard Manley Hopkins and a close friend of Clarke and is published now for the first time. Hergenhan, University of Queensland; Stewart,... Buy or find out more→
The Art of the Collection: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection
$59.95 – Hardback / Melbourne University Press
The Art of the Collection is a celebration of the State Library of Victoria's Picture Collection. The oldest visual documentary collection in Australia. The works range from early 18th and 19th century portraits, to contemporary... Buy or find out more→
Cowen Gallery Catalogue
$14.95 – Paperback / State Library of Victoria
Housing a permanent display of 150 works of art from the Pictures Collection, the Cowen Gallery houses the oldest visual documentary collection in Australia. The works illustrate Victoria's landscape, early Melbourne scenes, and... Buy or find out more→
Perils Of The Studio Inside The Artistic Affairs Of Bohemianmelbourne
$39.95 – Hardback / Australian Scholarly Publishing
A picture of what it was like to be an artist in the early twentieth century. Aims to add to our understanding of the sites and stories that have shaped Melbourne's creative, unique and bohemian character. Buy or find out more→
Your Most Obedient Servant: B.A. Santamaria Selected Letters - 1938-1996
$55.00 – Hardback / Melbourne University Press
Bob Santamaria was involved in Australian public life from before World War II until his death in 1998. His letters reveal facets of his personality and activities that the public was not fully aware of in his... Buy or find out more→
Chinawoman
$34.95 – Paperback / Australian Scholarly Publishing
The horrific murder of the Chinawoman, an English prostitute with a clientele of wealthy Chinese, is followed by the duplicity of police, politicians and Chinese leaders whose machinations in the midst of anti-Chinese ferment... Buy or find out more→
Running the Show: B.A. Santamaria Selected Documents 1939-1996
$59.95 – Hardback / Melbourne University Press
B.A. (Bob) Santamaria was perhaps the most controversial figure in recent Australian politics. An anti-Communist and devout Catholic, he was also one of the most prolific writers in Australia’s history and a strong campaigner... Buy or find out more→
Literary Melbourne
$13.95 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
Created to mark the celebration of Melbourne becoming a UNESCO City of Literature, this anthology draws together a selection of the best Melbourne and Victorian writing. Extracts from eighty writers across different genres provide... Buy or find out more→
Mark Strizic: Melbourne - Marvellous to Modern
$75.00 – Hardback / Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
This magnificent collection of photographs arose from the creativity of a young photographer and his adoption of his new home town, Melbourne. Mark Strizic's pictures were taken at a time when the Victorian elegance of the city... Buy or find out more→