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Inspired by the true story of Charles Young Watson, Between Two Wars follows an Australian soldier through love, loss, a......more

Two-up, a famous Australian soldiers’ gambling game, has given Australian English many unique words and phrases. The gam......more

This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society, a......more

This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australia’s most conservative state, Queens......more

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From the misty banks of Ireland’s River Shannon to the wild, sunlit shores of New South Wales, this sweeping true story ......more

In Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835, Annemarie McLaren re-tells key elements of the foundatio......more

’Of course you’ll take a gun, ’ they said to me when I left Melbourne, ’even if it’s only one of those little mother-of-......more

The extraordinary story of a classic Australian pioneer - told by Australia’s ’Boswell of the Bush’, Ion Idriess. Almost......more

Bush Studies, written during the 1890s, presents a bleak and uncompromising image of life in the Australian bush. These ......more

Vic Petersen was a member of the 2/11th Battalion A.I.F., Army number WX 571 and found himself in the Battle of Crete on......more

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Australia’s Past: From Ancient Dreamtime to Modern Nation "The History of Australia" invites readers to explore a contin......more

From Gallipoli to Kokoda and beyond - the story of our greatest general and the power, politics and tragedy of command G......more

This story about William Nowland places William’s life within a period of profound and rapid change, as the colony of NS......more

"The History of New Zealand" invites readers to explore a land of dramatic landscapes and resilient peoples, where Polyn......more

"Shades of Blue" provides an extensive compendium of the uniforms, insignia, badges and accoutrements worn by the person......more

The stunning, windswept coastline of South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula has, for more than two centuries, served as bo......more

After the success and celebrity of her coming of age novel My Brilliant Career, published when Miles Franklin was only 2......more

The fifth and final book in the Chinese Australians series explores how Chinese people have helped shape Australia’s ide......more

From 1918, 1919 and into 1920 Australia was rocked by a series of riots involving returned soldiers. From brawls in smal......more

Uncover the surprising history of trade and friendship between northern Australia and Asia before European settlement. F......more

Almost 40,000 Chinese people came to Australia during the gold rush years, chasing dreams of fortune and a better life. ......more

The fourth book in the Chinese Australians series shines a light on one of the most difficult chapters in Australia’s go......more

No history has been written of one of Sydney’s most affluent suburbs. Bondi had its beach, Watsons Bay its dramatic entr......more

There was a time in the history of this State when men did not wait until their job’s left them to go searching for gold......more

Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down. When acclaimed historian ......more

Shadows of Your Past is a story of resilience, loyalty, and the legacies we inherit, blending psychological tension with......more

Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this ......more

Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histor......more

In the third edition of Return to Eden, David H. Turner returns to his groundbreaking study of the Indigenous people of ......more

For fifty years, 4ZZZ has been more than just a broadcaster - it’s been a movement, a megaphone, and a meeting place for......more

On the 28th of February 2020, New Zealand has its first confirmed case of Covid-19. By the 26th of March, the country ha......more

George Bouchier Worgan (May 1757 - 4 March 1838) was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Austral......more

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Comprehensive and fully updated, Frommer’s Hawaii covers all the major Hawaiian Islands, and takes you from world-famous......more

Ride into the mist of history rediscover Iceland on horseback as the sagas come alive beneath your feet. In Iceland: Hor......more

"Australia, Land of the FREE, just as long as you do as you’re told. " Mgg In the darkest days of Covid, one writer hit ......more

Imagine facing not one, but several of nature’s most destructive forces in your lifetime bushfires, floods, and cyclones......more

Newcastle finds itself on shifting ground. But it’s not an earthquake, or subsidence due to an old mine. It’s perception......more

Bettsy - the boy who wanted to fly recounts the life of Ronald Betts, a "Biggles Boy" from Tasmania with a passion for f......more

Missionaries, Madness and Miracles tells the intriguing but often tragic tale of the first missionaries Hermann Kempe, W......more

Over a 10-year period three siblings arrived in Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) from England: Charles, Bayley and Harri......more

The first history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war Australia This groundbreaking book is a history of childr......more

This is the story of the men who challenged a continent and constructed the railway known as The Ghan, through country w......more

This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explor......more

This book addresses the gap in our historical knowledge about the roles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers h......more

The massive ancient city of Nan Madol was built on a small isolated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean almost 1,0......more

Australian Army Operational Shoulder Patches: Post 2000 is the definitive collector’s guide to official and unofficial A......more

Raymond Moult-Spiers, an eccentric Australian artist and WWII veteran, writes to the author, claiming to be a long-lost ......more

In 1907, the Western Australian government began a program of forcibly removing supposedly ill Aboriginal people to purp......more

A true story of government corruption, greed, coercion and disinformation that from 2009 to 2012 severely damaged Austra......more

A nostalgic journey through the years that helped build a nation’s identity. Come back with me into a most remarkable de......more

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The 1978 finals series was one we’d never seen before - and will likely never seen again. Seven-tackle sets. Not one but......more

The book analyses the relationship between Western European colonization and genocidal practice in terms of the need to ......more

On 15 November 1825 an extended conversation between CMS missionaries and Ngāpuhi rangatira was recorded at Kerikeri in ......more

Most people have never heard of Fitzgibbon, let alone imagined the rich and layered history that lies beneath its modern......more

A rumbling journey through time, TRAM is a book of stories, a celebration of the city’s living veins. From the horse-dra......more

The incredible story of the special investigations unit that tracked down the Nazis who called Australia home after Worl......more

1975 The Ballads of the Whitlam Dismissal uses bush ballads and investigative journalism to commemorate the Whitlam Dism......more

"Never before has this campaign been chronicled in such detail, with Allied and Japanese accounts matched for a factual ......more

In these pages Ion Idriess has brought together stories gathered and lived in his happy battling years in the wild lands......more

Pearl divers & sea rovers in Australian seas. Mr. Idriess reveals to the reader the technique of pearling with him, the ......more

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