Hidden in Plain View - The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney by Paul Irish
$54.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip's arrival in Sydney in 1788. Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip a century as they disappear from the historical record, ...Show more
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Tim Rowse
$54.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
$55.00 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more
Living on Hope Street by Demet Divaroren
$22.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
We all love someone. We all fear something. Sometimes they live right next door--or even closer. Kane will do everything he can to save his mother and his little brother Sam from the violence of his father, even if it means becoming a monster himself. Mrs. Aslan will protect the boys no matter what--ev ...Show more
Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods-a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which makes Mischka?s decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going ...Show more
My Lovely Frankie by Judith Clarke
$22.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
"Frankie believed in Heaven quite literally, as if it was another lovely world out past the stars. And when he spoke the word "love," it seemed to spring free and fly into the air like a beautiful balloon you wanted to run after. But I couldn't tell my parents about Frankie, not properly. I told them I' ...Show more
No Front Line: Australia's special forces at war in Afghanistan by Chris Masters
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years they were at the forefront of Australia's longest war. Shunning acclaim, they are the Australian Defen ...Show more
Pea Pod Lullaby by Glenda Millard; Stephen Michael King (Illustrator)
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
In poetic language and soft watercolor illustrations, this gentle lullaby of a tale evokes a story about finding refuge. Escaping flames and barbed wire, a mother, a baby, a boy, and a dog flee for their lives, climbing into a small sailboat to set off to sea. A polar bear, too, has come adrift. When wi ...Show more
Ruben by Bruce Whatley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Rubens dreams were of places that made no sense to him. Places that didnt exist. At least not anymore. Ruben is a triumph of Bruce Whatleys imaginative and technical skills.
Storm Whale by Sarah Brennan
$27.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
Bleak was the day and the wind whipped down when I and my sisters walked to town . . . With a powerful, poetic text, wonderful to read aloud, and illustrations full of life and movement, this picture book about three sisters finding a stranded whale celebrates the majesty and vulnerability of nature an ...Show more
Taboo by Kim Scott
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin AwardFrom Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred ye ...Show more
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
$40.00 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
Alfred Deakin - scholar, spiritualist, prime minister - was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together his public, private and family lives. She brings out from behind the ...Show more