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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Phillipa McGuinness
On New Year’s Eve 2001, with her husband by her side, Phillipa McGuinness buried her son. They stood with a young priest in Chua Chu Kang Cemetery and watched a…
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Christos Tsiolkas
In this passionate and electrifying short book, Christos Tsiolkas writes about his year spent reading Patrick White, of his ‘discovery and rediscovery of White as a writer.‘ The result is…
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Zoe Foster Blake
Break-ups suck but you don’t have to suck at break-ups.
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Anna Plunkett,Luke Sales
The fully illustrated story of one of the most successful Australian fashion houses of the last 15 years. Romance Was Born collections are lavish, larger than life, iconic and iconaclastic…
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Robert Nelson
In CreativityCrisis Creativity Crisis is essential reading for those concernedwith the nature and quality of instruction at university level.
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Jackie Ryan
How did one long and expensive party change a city forever?
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons brings the Allied triumph at the Battle of Le Hamel to life, and tells the magnificent story of the first modern battle as it should be told.
Hugh Mackay (AUTHOR)
A courageous and passionately argued treatise on how we harness the power of the new era to create a stronger, fairer society.
Dr Stephen Gapps
The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians - described as ‘this constant sort of war’ by one early colonist - around the greater…
Mark McKenna
Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. Indigenous recognition and a new push for…
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Meredith Lake
Tells the revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys and beyond. At a time when…
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After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the Australian defence forces. This book reveals the courage…
Kjetil Saeter,Eskil Engdal
Poachers, kingpins and the longest chase in maritime history: A desperate race to save our planet’s oceans.
Anna Haebich
Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Nyungar people of Western Australia strategically and courageously…
Andrew Leigh
In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Randomistas is a brilliant and entertaining exploration of a hidden but vital foundation of modern life.
David Holmgren
This 592 page manual shows how Australians can downshift and retrofit their homes, gardens, communities and, above all, themselves to be more self-organised, sustainable and resilient into an uncertain future…
Barry Hill
His major works include Sitting In (1992), a landmark memoir in Labour History; Broken Song: TGH Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession (2002), a literarybiographyand essay in Aboriginal and frontier poetics; and…
Clive Hamilton
In 2008 Clive Hamilton was at Parliament House in Canberra when the Beijing Olympic torch relay passed through. He watched in bewilderment as a small pro-Tibet protest was overrun by…
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Samantha Lane
A celebration of the wonderful characters of the AFLW and the remarkable success of the new Women’s League.
Christina Twomey
Follows the stories of 15,000 Australian prisoners of war from the moment they were released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Their struggle to rehabilitate themselves…
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Tanya Bretherton
SYDNEY, 1923: a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals its grisly contents - and from there, an extraordinary story unfolds.
Jonathan Pearlman
Towards an independent foreign policy.
