AUSTRALIA

Manning Clark / The Puzzles Of Childhood

As a voyage of self-discovery it is a poignant fragment of Australian history' - Jill Kitson, Australian Bookseller and Publisher 'A Brave Book, remorselessly turning over the stones of childhood' -...

Marcus Clarke - For the Term of His Natural Life - PB ( Tasmania)

For the Term of His Natural Life is a story written by Marcus Clarke and first published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life). It was published as...

Maree Coote / Alphabet City Melbourne (Hardback)

Alphabet City Melbourne,  is a board book for Melbourne kids written by Maree Coote. This clever little book helps your children learn the A-B-C's  through shapes and...

Mark Warren / Atlas of Australian Surfing (Coffee Table Book)

The first edition of Mark Warren's Atlas of Australian Surfing was a bona fide classic of sports publishing a book that today can be found in almost every Australian household. The new revised Atlas...

Michael Alexander / Mrs. Fraser on the Fatal Shore (Large Paperback)

A true story with more drama and excitement than fiction. In 1836, the barque Stirling Castle shipwrecked on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, leaving the crew, Captain Fraser, and his wife at the...

Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice - Vintage PB - Pan Books 1968

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to...

Nicole Hurley-Moore / Summer at Kangaroo Ridge (Large Paperback)

A stunning new rural romance from the bestselling author of The McCalister Legacy and Lawson's Bend.The Carrington family own the only pub in the small country town of Kangaroo Ridge in rural...

Paul B. Taylor / Australian Ripping Yarns II (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may...

Paul John Keating / After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches (Hardback)

 Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian publishing by virtue of its scale and range of subjects, and that...

Peter Carey / Amnesia (Large Paperback)

It was a spring evening in Washington DC; a chilly autumn morning in Melbourne; it was exactly 22.00 Greenwich Mean Time when a worm entered the computerised control systems of hundreds of Australian...

Peter Carey / Illywhacker

 Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and...

Peter Temple / Dead Point (Large Paperback)

Jack Irish - Book 3 Winner of the 2001 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing.He was closing in on me. I could hear his running foot-steps over the sound of my heart, of the blood in my ears,...

Rachael Treasure / The Cattleman's Daughter (Large Paperback)

Born on the rugged Dargo High Plains and raised by her cattleman father, Emily Flanaghan has lost her way in life.Locked in an unhappy marriage in the suburbs, Emily misses the high country with...

Robert Drewe / The Shark Net - Memories and Murder (Large Paperback)

Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and...

Robert G. Barrett / Trifecta (Large Paperback)

Trifecta: The Ultimate Robert G. Barrett Collection Robert G. Barrett     Two classic Les Norton adventures in one volume, plus Robert G. Barrett’s outrageous columns...

Robert Hughes - The Fatal Shore : The Epic of Australia's Founding

In this bestselling account of the colonization of Australia, Robert Hughes explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. Digging deep into the dark history of...

Roff Smith / Cold Beer and Crocodiles (Large Paperback)

A Bicycle Journey into Australia A New England-born author and journalist describes his nine-month, ten-thousand-mile journey through Australia by bicycle, detailing the cattle stations, mining...

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms - PB - 1977

'A story of life and adventure in the bush and goldfields of Australia', Originally poublished in 1889, this paperback reprint 1977, as part of the Seal Books Australian Classics series...

Rupert McCall / Green and Gold Malaria

Hailed as a modern-day Banjo Paterson, Rupert McCall has captured the imagination and stirred the souls of people all over Australia with his poetry.He writes with humour and compassion about the...

Shane Jenek / Caught in the Act (Large Paperback)

Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts.Meet Shane Jenek. Raised in the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia, by loving parents, Shane realises from a young age that...

Shirley Barrett / Rush Oh! (Hardback)

An impassioned, charming, and hilarious debut novel about a young woman's coming-of-age, during one of the harshest whaling seasons in the history of New South Wales.1908: It's the year that proves...

Steve Parish / A Wild Australia Guide: Mammals

Australia is the only country in the world where representatives of the three major mammal types (placentals, marsupials and monotremes) are found.The country's sustained isolation from the rest of...

Steve Parish / Discovering Queensland (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may...

Steve Parish / Koalas Australia (Large Paperback)

Pictorial guide to koalas. Covers habitat, diet, koala babies, and places to see koalas.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown...

Stuart Macintyre / A Concise History of Australia (Large Paperback)

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to...

Sue Williams / Mean Streets Kind Heart (Large Paperback)

An astonishing story of courage, dedication, and the stirring triumph of hope and determination against all the odds. Mean Streets, Kind Heart: the Father Chris Riley Story is an inspirational tale...

Tascahen Publications / Sydney Style (Large Paperback)

Evangelische Akademie Loccum (Photographs) Shot by Italian interior photographer Giorgio Possenti, these sumptuous photographs of penthouses, open space interiors, and minimalist homes (filled...

Therese Creed / Redstone Station (Large Paperback)

Alice Day is happy to be returning home to Redstone Station after two years at Agriculture College. During various placements at farms and stations during her time at college she was shocked at...

Thomas Keneally / The People's Train (Large Paperback)

Artem Samsurov, a charismatic protégé of Lenin and an ardent socialist, reaches sanctuary in Australia after escaping his Siberian labour camp and making a long, perilous journey via...

Tim Flannery / The Future Eaters - An Ecological History of the Australasian lands and people (Large Paperback)

  The Future Eaters, 1994 The book is an ecological history of Australia entailing how humans consume the resources they need for their future, and looking at the ancient journey of the...

Tim McCormack / Sir Ninian Stephen: A Tribute (Hardback)

Compiled in honour of Sir Ninian Stephen's 80th birthday, this book is a collection of essays by Australia's most respected legal, political and diplomatic figures. The essays celebrate Sir Ninian's...

Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey / Sydney & the Great Barrier Reef (Large Paperback)

This full-color guide to Sydney and the Great Barrier Reef includes vibrant photos and helpful planning maps.Larger than the Great Wall of China and containing thousands of species of wildlife, the...

Victoria Hill / Macbeth : Explicit and Uncut

This is a contemporary retelling, by Victoria Hill, of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' set in a  modern gangland setting in Melbourne.   All of our books are second hand, and while you may...