Beechworth by Gary Coombe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
Gary Coombe the Beechworth photographer hesitates when asked about his favourite photo ("Gee, it's like asking who's your favourite child") but admits to pride in his snap of his town's post office and two rainbows (pictured above). This image is just one of many featured in Beechworth, a new book th ...Show more
Too Young To Hold A Gun by Peter Spencer
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
New England Bushranger History - If you ask most Australians, ‘what do you know about the bushranging era of Australian history?’, many would mention Ned Kelly and a few might also name Ben Hall. But as history shows, there are many other men who took to a life of crime back when our nation was made up ...Show more
The Ghosts Have Never Left - Victorian Gold Rush Town and the Stories They Could Tell by John & Marie WATT
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
In words and images this book seeks to capture both the glory days and haunting reminders of 21 Victorian Gold Rush towns, that today are either small, sleepy or non-existent. The authors have also identified slices of important, and often little known, history associated with each of the 21 towns. Topi ...Show more
Australian Geographic High Country by Chriss, Munn
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
The 9th title in the new series of photographic souvenir guides to the iconic places of Australia from Australian Geographic and Woodslane Press. This 64-page large format book is full of vibrant photography, and is accompanied by a concise but fascinating commentary from one of Australia’s leading trav ...Show more
The Great Housing Hijack: The Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
The Great Housing Hijack reveals how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Australia, and offers a solution for genuinely affordable housing for those who need it. Everyone claims to want affordable housing, but no one wants cheap housing. While Australians on regular incomes dre ...Show more
The Wimmera: A Journey Through Western Victoria by Adam McNicol
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
A partner volume to The Mallee: A journey through north-west Victoria, this book will be another stunning written and photographic documentary, focusing on the small towns that dot the Wimmera.
Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a ...Show more
Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up by Gabrielle Chan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
Telling the story of Australia as it is today, Gabrielle Chan has gone hyper-local. In Rusted Off,she looks to her own rural community?s main street for answers to the big questions driving voters. Why are we so fed up with politics? Why are formerly rusted-on country voters deserting major parties in g ...Show more
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature by Nicholas Jose
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology. Covering all genres - from fiction, poetry and drama to diaries, letters, essays and speech - the anthology maps the development of one of the great literatures in Englis ...Show more
Knockout: Great Australian Boxing Stories by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
A no-holds-barred collection of Australian boxing yarns, from the bare-knuckle fighting of old to the modern greats ... The winners, the losers and the legends Boxing has given Australian sport some of our most inspiring champions and some of our most captivating tales. Stories of underdogs overcoming a ...Show more
Butterflies Be Gone - Yoga Therapy for Fear and Anxiety by Adele Vincent
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Culture
When Jesse wakes up with butterflies in his tummy, he feels anxious about his day. But as he begins to move his body in special yoga poses, he is able to work through different emotions. Soon his body feels better and his imagination takes off! Join Jesse on a magical underwater journey and learn how to ...Show more