AUSTRALIA

Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840

When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol...

Alexis Wright / Carpentaria

Carpentaria is an epic novel set in the Gulf country of north western Queensland. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom...

Bill Wannan / Great Aussie Insults (Large Paperback)

From tongue-in-cheek gibes to brutal invective, here is a lively collection of Australian insults handed out to politicians by politicians, to critics by performers, to Sydneysiders by Melburnians...

Bruce Guthrie / Man Bites Murdoch (Large Paperback)

Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court

Bryan Havenhand & Anne MacGregor / Australian Expats: Stories from Abroad

 These stories from Australians living and working overseas will warm your heart, stir the emotions, and provide fresh insights into what it's like to come from Down-Under. From an 18-year-old au...

Christos Tsiolkas / The Slap

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Colin Buchanan / Deck the Shed with Bits of Wattle (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Dennis N.T. Perkins / Into the Storm (Hardback)

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Emily Bitto / The Strays

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Frannie Hopkirk / Brett (Large Paperback)

Frannie is from one of Australia's most pre-eminent art families, the Whiteley's - she is Brett Whiteley's sister, both having grown up amidst Australian art royalty. Frannie twice sat for William...

Graham Pizzey / A Field Guidce to the Birds of Australia (Large Paperback)

Reprint edition, revised. 464 pages  plus 88 coloured plates (together near the middle), distribution maps, index, a detailed guide to all native species on the continent, and across it's many varied...

Harry Lourandos / Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory (Coffee Table Book)

This book challenges traditional perceptions of Australian Aboriginal prehistory: that environment is the major determinant of hunter-gatherers; that Aborigines were egalitarian and culturally...

Henry Lawson - While The Billy Boils - PB

52 short stories, originally published 1896, and classics of Australian 19th century writing, evoking the rural Australia that Henry Lawson knew himself.  Light edgewear only, this edition published...

Ian White / Australian Bush Flower Essences (Coffee Table Book)

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Jane Harper / The Dry

   One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read...Read it!' David BaldacciWINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2017Amazon.com's...

Jane Harper / The Dry (Hardback)

 'One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read...Read it!' David Baldacci'Packed with sneaky moves and teasing possibilities that keep the reader guessing...The Dry is a breathless page-turner'...

Jane Harper / The Lost Man

 Jane Harper's new novel, The Survivors, now available for pre-orderA best crime fiction book of 2019 pick in The TimesA thriller of the year 2019 pick in the ObserverA bestselling Richard & Judy...

Jeffery Pike / Insight Guides Australia (Large Paperback)

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Jim Eames / Red Tail Skies(Large Paperback)

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John Faulkner / True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party (Coffee Table Book)

True Believers is the big unfolding story of the 607 men and women who have made up the federal Labor Causus in Australia. It is the story of a century of change, the building of a nation through war...

John Fisher - The Austalians from 1788 to Modern Times - HB - 1968

Hardcover, published by Taplinger USA, 1968.  A history of European settlement in Australia from Cook onwards, covering the original convict state, exploartion of the interior outback, mining, gold...

John O'Brien - Around The Boree Log - PB - Australia Poetry

An Australian classic, first published in 1921, of Around the Boree Log, by John O'Brien, ( a pen name for Hartigan ( 1878-1952) who was born in Australia to Irish parents, and became a priest in...

Kate Grenville / The Secret River

London, 1807. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which...

Kate Grenville / The Secret River (Large Paperback)

    William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at...

Kate Lyons / The Water Underneath

A unique blend of literary road movie and murder mystery.'They dragged her out of the lake at dawn. No jaw, one eye socket like some strange fish. The water was closing and closing, the centre blank...

Kelvin Aitken / Australia (Coffee Table Book)

It is the world's smallest continent, but also its largest island - an immense land of physical contracts and opposing human cultures, ancient and modern. This full colour book is a photographic tour...

L.L Robson - The Convict Settlers of Australia - PB - 1976

Paperback, published by Melbourne University Press.  Sticker residue on front cover corner( justr under the word 'settlers', internally unmarked, apart from a ( previous name?) which has been clipped...

Lesley O'Brien / Mary Mackillop Unveiled

Aiming to make this compelling story of church politics and Christian service available to all, Lesley O'Brien presents a moving account of the life and times of Mary MacKillop, Australia's first...

Lily O'Connor - Dreams of Hope - From Dublin to Australia

This powerful story of an Irish emigrant family is filled with love, life, and the struggle to make them fit together. When Lily O'Connor married Paddy in Dublin, she soon found herself emigrating to...

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 a novel in 1874 and...

Margaret Geddes / Australian Birds: A Celebration (Coffee Table Book)

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Martine Murray / The Last Summer of Ada Bloom (Large Paperback)

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

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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 inventions,...

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,...

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.    Writing...

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 he’s...

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 / 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 in...

Susan Bambrick / The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia (Coffee Table Book)

The essential single-volume reference source describes all aspects of Australia. With contributions from over ninety experts, it provides comprehensive coverage of life in twentieth-century Australia...

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 Japan. But...

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 Aboriginal...

Victoria Hill / Macbeth : Explicit and Uncut

This is a contemporary retelling, by Vict