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  • - The Life & Times of an Australian Admiral
    by Peter Jones
    £18.99

  • - An ANZAC Archive
    by John Scheckter
    £15.49

  • - Country, Kin and The Dugong Hunter Song lines
    by John Bradley
    £26.99

    The song line of the Dugong Hunters of the Indigenous Yanyuwa of Australia's Northern Territory embodies Yanyuwa knowledge of the sea and the islands. In Yanyuwa understanding, intelligence of Lawful places is embedded in country and carried by threads of a song that speaks of change and continuity and is still intensely alive.

  • - A Novel
    by Desmond O'Grady
    £25.49

  • - Donald Trump and the Verdict of History
    by Norman Abjorensen
    £10.99

  • - Race, Evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World
    by Ross L Jones
    £21.99

    With a new vision of bio-ecology that linked humans to their past and their evolutionary niche, the 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith travelled the globe constructing morphologies of the biological world.

  • - Memoirs of Life in Shanghai, 1978 to 1979
    by Anne E. McLaren
    £18.99

    This memoir offers a rare insight into everyday life during the first year of the reform movement that created the China of the twenty-first century.

  • - Letters Between Greek Writer Costas Taktsis and Australian Artist Carl Plate and Their Families in Cosmopolitan Post-War Sydney
    by Cassi Plate
    £20.49

    Costas Taktsis, arguably the most important post-war Greek writer, called himself a 'Sacred Monster', and his life-long Australian friend Carl Plate - an important painter, Gallerist and influencer of modern art in Sydney - the Colossus of Woronora.

  • - Writers on Writing
    by Linda Weste
    £20.49

    In these 22 interviews with notable verse novelists, Linda Weste explores the uniqueness of storytelling through poetry and the verse novel genre. Her subjects include Bernardine Evaristo, joint winner of the Booker Prize in 2019; and what they have to say enriches our understanding of the many ways poetry and narratives can meld.

  • - Dora Meeson Coates and British Suffrage
    by Myra Scott
    £11.49

  • - The Life and Times of Tommy Townshend
    by Andrew Tink
    £18.99

    Eighteenth century British convicts were sent to Botany Bay on the recommendation of 'Tommy' Townshend, a John Bull figure, and politician largely in Opposition. He also played a key role in settling the peace between Americans and Britons and determining the boundary between Canada and the United States. And was made a peer, Lord Sydney, in 1883.

  • - When It All Went Wrong
    by Nicholas Whitlam
    £18.99

  • - The Landing, the Legend, the Law
    by Catherine Bond
    £20.49

    The word 'Anzac' has been the subject of a century of legal regulation in Australia and internationally. Catherine Bond interrogates the legal history of one of Australia and New Zealand's most revered words and the restrictions on the acronym that still exist today.

  • by Jill Giese
    £20.49

  • by Andrew May
    £20.49

    Artist Ugo Catani's 'A Summer Shower in Collins Street, 1889' sets the scene for walking the streets of Melbourne, imagining the everyday past and seeing the urban landscape with new eyes. This award-winning book is a rich commentary on the growth and transformation of a great Australian city.

  • - An Analysis of the Visual Image in Painting
    by Percy Leason
    £18.99

  • - The Making of an Australian Style
    by Sally Gray
    £18.99

    Manolo Blahnik once claimed that Australia was 'the most creative place in the world'. He was referring to the fashion and art worlds created by the principal characters in this book in Melbourne and then in Sydney, in the 1970s-90s.

  • - The Politics of Northern Development in Australia
    by Lyndon Megarrity
    £20.49

    The book brings to life the passionate arguments about Northern Australia's national significance and analyses the political debates that have periodically drawn the public's attention northwards.

  • by Nicholas Hasluck
    £15.49

  • by Nicholas Hasluck
    £16.49

    New to Broome in Western Australia, Colin Everett is drawn into a fierce legal dispute over land ownership. A key witness disappears. To win for the Aboriginal claimants, Colin must find the witness, overcome opposition and probe the origin of ancient rock art.

  • by T. H. Rigby
    £18.99

    T. H. Rigby was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6.

  • - Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall: a Documentary
    by Michael Wilding
    £15.49

    Meticulously using contemporary newspaper reports, court records, published memoirs, private letters and diaries, Michael Wilding tells the story of three troubled geniuses of 19th century Australian writing and their world of poetry and poverty, alcohol and opiates, horse-racing and theatre, journalism and publishing.

  • by Ann Game
    £18.99

  • - What Happened to the Men and Women of the 'Lady Shore' Mutiny
    by Elsbeth Hardie
    £18.99

    In 1797, Britain rashly pressed French prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps and armed them as guards on a ship carrying 66 female and 2 male convicts to New South Wales. The true story of those on board is told in detail for the first time.

  • by Chandani Lokuge
    £18.99

    Set against the fascinating exotics of Australia and France, 'A haunting mystical reading experience, suffused with history, art, and recovery from trauma. An inspired travelogue... the damaged genius of Van Gogh brooding over the narrative, with hints of both joy and anguish.'

  • by Louis Nowra
    £15.49

    In stories disturbing, moving and comic, the acclaimed Australian author, playwright & screenwriter displays his breathtaking range, taking us from Venice to Lord Howe Island, from the chaos of contemporary Moscow to Sydney high society, from Edwardian London to a mysterious place full of beauty and terror in Far North Queensland.

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