Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
39.99 AUD
Category: History
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
On the Voice to Parliament by Charles Prouse
16.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Australia is on the brink of a landmark decision to establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament that will be enshrined in the Constitution. From there, treaty-making and truth-telling will follow. But how do we cut through the debate, get to the heart of the issue and vote in the best interests of In ...Show more
Oxford Dictionary of Nursing by Market House Books Limited
23.00 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
This new edition of a best-selling and trusted dictionary has been fully updated and revised to take account of recent developments in nursing practice and related fields. Though updates to this edition cover many areas, there is a particular focus upon risk assessement tools and terms relating to the M ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
37.99 AUD
Category: Environmental
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightn ...Show more
The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain: An Edwardian Cricket Murder by Gideon Haigh
20.00 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime - now he's unearthed a gripping story that combines the two, in a masterpiece of historical detective work that ties back to the origin of the Ashes ... On the night of 23 September 1910, on a station 500km west of Brisbane ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians by James Patterson
36.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title that highlights the magic of books. To be a bookseller or librarian . . . You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of m ...Show more
Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910 by Noah Riseman
40.00 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Trans and gender diverse people have always been present in Australian life, whether they've lived quiet lives in the country, performed in cabaret shows, worked on the streets or run for parliament. But over the last century there have been remarkable changes in how they have identified and expressed t ...Show more
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies by Natasha Tidd
27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History of the World Ser.
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesar's deceptive PR machine to the cover ups that caused Chernobyl.From forgeries that created centuries worth of conflict and domination, such as The Donati ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
29.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Age Pension Made Simple by Trish Power
20.00 AUD
Category: Religion
Around 80% of retirees in Australia receive a full or part-Age Pension, and the Age Pension remains a vital component in nearly every Australians retirement plans. The government has changed the rules and it is important to understand how your Age Pension entitlements may be affected by the new rules. T ...Show more
Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary by Mark Gwynn, Amanda Laugesen
50.00 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Australian Dictionaries/Thesauruses/Reference Ser.
The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary is Australia's most authoritative concise dictionary. Produced in partnership with the Australian National Dictionary Centre, this sixth edition has been thoroughly updated, and includes many hundreds of new words you won't find in any other dictionary. It provid ...Show more