Australian non-fiction 2016
The Best Australian Essays 2016
'The essay creates a place for slow thought on hectic subjects, and that is what the best of this year's crop manage to do.' -Geordie Williamson
$10.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Seriously…You Have to Laugh: Great Yarns and Tall Tales from the Sporting Fields, Dressing Rooms and Commentary Boxes of Australia
Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humour from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing rooms, bars and...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Damage Done
The Damage Done is a collection of testimonies from patients and families, doctors, nurses and coroners that describe the suffering across Australia caused by the absence of a law for assisted dying. Written by contributors ages...
$19.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The History of Australia in 100 Objects
The History of Australia in 100 Objects is a fresh, accessible take on Australian history. It explores both well- and little-known stories through the objects of the time and the people who made and owned them.<br...
$49.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2016
The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Women of Letters 7
Dear Madonna, Thank you for showing me that it is okay to be both a devoted mother and on a podium drenched in glitter. Love, Em RuscianoDear Mum, My life is so much more fortunate than yours was and I'm...
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Midnight Oil: The Power and The Passion
Midnight Oil are one of the most 'Australian' rock bands this country has produced. Born from the Australian pub rock scene that gave us AC/DC, Cold Chisel and INXS, the Oils were able to break out of that scene without...
$49.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Story of Australia’s People Volume II
In Volume II of The Story of Australia's People, Geoffrey Blainey continues his account of the history of this country from the early Gold Rush to the present day, completing the story of our nation and its people.<br...
$49.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
A Single Tree
A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. <br...
$45.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia
First there was Girt. Now comes... True Girt.
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Under Full Sail
How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation.
$45.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Kiffy Rubbo: curating the 1970s
How one woman helped shape the Australian art world.
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Dig: Australian Rock and Pop Music, 1960-85
A comprehensive and highly readable history of the first quarter-century of Australian rock and pop music, this book will appeal to everyone with more than a passing interest in rock 'n' roll. Those whose knowledge of Australian...
$50.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent
Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its...
$39.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Bush Heritage Australia: Restoring Nature Step by Step
With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions. With more than one million hectares in its care, Bush Heritage's achievements are celebrated in this...
$39.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Full Bore
A chance encounter in an auction house is the jumping-off point for William's inimitable take on our sport-obsessed nation, Australian popular culture and the artefacts and memorabilia that both make us cringe with recognition and...
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Living with the Locals: Early Europeans' Experience of Indigenous Life
Living with the Locals comprises the stories of 13 white men, boys and women who were taken in by the Indigenous people of the Torres Strait islands and of eastern Australia and who lived in their communities between the...
$44.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Promise of Things
Some of our strongest, most lasting relationships are hidden in plain view-those we have with objects. What do our possessions do for us? And how do they do it? In The Promise of...
$27.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories
Offers an imaginative and original new telling of modern Australia through the history and stories of ten places, all revisited and explained by award-winning author and historian Mark McKenna, including Sydney Cove, Port...
$34.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Margaret Preston
In the style of Sunday's Kitchen, Margaret Preston's cookbook will tell a story of art, food and social times of this much-admired artist. The Margaret Preston recipe book (held in the NGA collection) is full of handwritten...
$45.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Fight Like a Girl
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Fair Game
Based on years of interviews and research, Walkley Award-winning journalist Steve Cannane tells for the first time the fascinating story of Australia's vital involvement with this powerful, secretive and punitive cult.
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Comeback
As a boy, James Button fell in love with the Geelong Football Club. It was a family affair. But as the years wore on and the defeats and disappointments mounted, it became clear to him: his team would never win a flag. This book...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Doing It: Women Tell the Truth about Great Sex
Doing It is a bold, explicit and unapologetically feminist look at sex written by women with a great story to tell about a positive sexual encounter, relationship or development in their lives. This collection u memoir, essay,...
$29.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian gardens
Cottage to mansion, balcony to botanic garden, Planting Dreams will change the way you think about Australian gardens. Acclaimed garden historian Richard Aitken explores the fascinating environmental and social influences that...
$49.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story
In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them - and left the public completely in the dark. This book reveals the...
$34.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Why the future is workless
In this timely and provocative book, Tim Dunlop argues that by embracing the changes ahead we might even find ourselves better off. Workless goes beyond the gadgetry and hype to examine the social and political ramifications of...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Position Doubtful: mapping landscapes and memories
Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears, and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens in...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Chaser’s Australia
The Chaser's Australia is a comprehensive guide to the culture, history, politics, religion, fashion, media and heroes that have made Australia one of the Top 196 countries in the world today. Featuring fewer verifiable...
$24.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia herald a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. A Handful of Sand tells the story behind...
$29.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia
I became an urban historian because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism. City Dreamers restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the...
$34.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Amazinger Face
Amazing Face is the beauty book for women of all ages. Zoe Foster - beauty journalist, author, woman - offers her valuable experience when it comes to skin, face, eyes, lips, hair, hands and nails, body and makeovers. This book is...
$45.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Drowned Man: A true story of life death and murder on HMAS Australia
Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2017A chance encounter in a fish-'n'-chip shop set Brendan James Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS...
$32.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Five Bells: Being LGBT in Australia
In a country known as one of the most queer-friendly nations in the world, most Australians support LGBTI rights, federal laws protect queer people from discrimination, transgender Australians are recognized legally as their...
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line - Australia’s Path to War
Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment, Australia is at war with ISIS. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts itself and America seeks to hold...
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
A Long Time Coming: Essays on old age
This collection of thought-provoking essays explores what it means to grow old in our youth-obsessed world.
$27.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Beyond Belief
A powerful investigation into how we make sense of our lives and find purpose in an age without God.
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru
What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012? This essential book provides a comprehensive and uncompromising overview of the first three years of...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Gay and Lesbian, Then and Now: Australian Stories from a Social Revolution
Over seventy years, Australia has quietly undergone one of the biggest social revolutions in its history. Once viewed as criminals, sinners or sick, lesbians and gay men are increasingly accepted as equal, and the majority of...
$10.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
We’re All Going to Die
A joyful book about the necessity of celebrating life in the face of death. The one certainty about life is that everybody is going to die. Yet somehow as a society we have come to deny this...
$27.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
How to Vote Progressive in Australia: Labor or Green?
Red or Green? Traditionally, Australian progressives have supported the Australian Labor Party; increasingly, The Greens appeal. What are the key differences between the parties? Is greater collaboration .
$29.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
It’s Our Country
It's Our Country articulates why constitutional accommodation of indigenous peoples is important for a nation that is home to the oldest continuous civilisation on earth.
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
How to Be a Writer: Who smashes deadlines, crushes editors and lives in a solid gold hovercraft
This gonzo guide isn't for the faint-hearted. In high-octane style, best-selling author John Birmingham provides tried-and-tested tips for writing well - and getting paid. Topics covered include how to slay writer's block , what...
$24.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly: Quarterly Essay 57
In this short, powerful book, Karen Hitchcock shines a light on ageism in our society. Through some unforgettable case studies, she shows what care for the elderly and dying is really like - both the good and the bad. With honesty...
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women
Skin Deep looks at the preoccupations of European-Australians in their encounters with Aboriginal women and the tropes, types and perceptions that seeped into everyday settler-colonial thinking.Early erroneous...
$50.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service since 1945
Few Australians realise the extent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in the military. Many enlisted before they had the right to vote, to drink alcohol or even to receive equal wages. Defending Country is the...
$34.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Who Bombed the Hilton?
Once you start to go through the archives, the story of the Hilton bombing what happened, who probably did it and how the truth was lost becomes apparent.On 13 February 1978 a bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in George...
$32.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Media and the Massacre: Port Arthur 1996-2016
‘An unflinching dissection of the relationships between journalists and their subjects - a compelling exposé of journalistic culture.' John Dale, author of HucksteppSonya Voumard's The Media and the...
$29.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Unnecessary Wars
Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a three - year conflict fought in...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
From The Outer: Footy Like You’ve Never Heard It
A celebration of our great game, From the Outer brings together 30 personal stories about Aussie Rules from unexpected voices: those who are female, Indigenous or gay; those with a disability, a foreign accent or even - perhaps...
$27.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Georgiana Molloy: The Mind That Shines
In 1829, estranged from her family and living in an isolated Scottish village, Georgiana Kennedy makes a sudden decision to marry Captain John Molloy of the Rifle Brigade - a handsome hero with a mysterious past. Together, they...
$39.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Econobabble: How To Decode Political Spin And Economic Nonsense:Redback8
What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when public figures and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevitable or the inequitable...
$19.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act - Australia Between Recession and Renewal
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at...
$22.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Backlash : Australia’s Conflict of Values Over Live Exports
In 2011 footage of the inhumane slaughter of cattle in Indonesia caused the greatest outpouring of public protest in over thirty years. This book brings to life these extraordinary events including the backlash against the...
$22.00Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Sick Bag Song
Chronicles Nick Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. This personal account blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and a road journal. It explores and develops the...
$24.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Sideshow Alley: Infamy, the Macabre & the Portrait
Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation.National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour...
$39.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
The Oldest Foods on Earth: A History of Australian Native Foods with Recipes
Why have white Australians so often rejected the delicious and nourishing foods native to our own continent - the wild rices, native fruits, meats, herbs and spices? This is one food revolution that really matters - and it will...
$29.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
A Murder Without Motive: the killing of Rebecca Ryle
In 2004, the body of a young Perth woman was found on the grounds of a primary school. Her name was Rebecca Ryle. The killing would mystify investigators, lawyers, and psychologists - and profoundly rearrange the...
$27.99Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling
A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was...
$24.95Buy now
Finding stock availability...
Don’t see anything you like? Search our catalogue of over a million books.