A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
$34.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A Passion for Exploring by Josephine Bastian
$0.00 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
'Australian history...does not read like history', Mark Twain complained in 1897, 'but like the most beautiful lies...It is full of surprises and adventures, incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened.' He might have been thinking of Matthew Flinders ...Show more
Atomic Thunder : The Maralinga Story by Elizabeth Tynan
$42.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
In September 2016 it will be 60 years since the first British mushroom cloud rose above the plain at Maralinga in South Australia. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland. In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies bli ...Show more
Blue Sky, Yellow Kite (HB) by Janet A. Holmes
$27.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
Sometimes we want a thing so much we can't prevent ourselves from taking it. But when a girl steals her friend's beautiful yellow kite, she is swamped with turmoil. A story about desire, guilt and forgiveness.
Content by Liam Ferney
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In his latest collection, Liam Ferney focuses on the deep contradictions at the heart of modern life. Content is a hand grenade tossed into the middle of polite society. Ferney uses the argot of politics and the internet to tackle religion, war, love and late capitalism. This is fast paced poetry that i ...Show more
Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
There are two ways of looking at Aissa's story. She's the miracle girl who escaped the raiders. Or she's the cursed child who called the Bull King's ship to the island. The firstborn daughter of a priestess is cast out as a baby, and after raiders kill her adopted family, she is abandoned at the gates o ...Show more
Evatt : A Life by John Murphy
$59.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
John Murphy's Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the 1940s and for his central role in the formation of the UN, Evatt went on to be the leader of the Labor party in the ...Show more
Figgy and the President by Tamsin Janu
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
Figgy and Nana love to talk about their future. Nana wants to be President of Ghana. Deciding on a career isn't as easy for Figgy, but then she lands the role of a lifetime as an actress in a film. When Figgys Mama shows up, sick and expecting a baby, and Nanas father takes him away, Figgy has more impo ...Show more
Forgetting Foster by Dianne Touchell
$22.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: 13+
Foster suddenly recognised the feeling that rolled over him and made him feel sick. It was this: Dad was going away somewhere all on his own. And Foster was already missing him...Foster Sumner is seven years old. He likes toy soldiers, tadpole hunting, going to school and the beach. Best of all, he like ...Show more
Home in the Rain by Bob Graham
$0.00 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
Waiting out a storm by the highway inspires a name for an unborn baby sister in a tender, exquisitely observed tale from the incomparable Bob Graham. The rain is pouring down in buckets, and Francie and her mom are on their way home from Grandma's. As the little red car pulls into a picnic area to wait ...Show more
My Brother (HB) by Dee Huxley
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
When a grieving brother sets out to find his lost sibling, his quest takes him on an ethereal journey across land and sea - to fantastic, floating cities, and mediaeval towns full of dark alleyways and winding staircases - to vast open grasslands and eerie, silent forests - until eventually he arrives i ...Show more