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Six Seconds: The Newcastle Earthquake (My Australian Story) by Alan Sunderland
$17.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
I could hardly see. There was dust and smoke everywhere. I was falling, sliding down into a gap that had opened up between parts of the collapsed building. It was dark and silent. all I could hear was the sound of my own breathing, and my beating heart thumping in my ears. Then I heard the cry again: th ...Show more
Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History
Dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth and economic devastation: we feel we understand drought and yet there is more to this story. Australias long history of drought has goaded people to adapt and respond creatively. This book explores the way people have lived and worked with drought from the nineteenth ...Show more
Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. Smoke Encrypted Whispers contains poems from all of Samuel Wagan Watson's publications, as well as his unpublished new work. This generous collection opens with his 1999 Unaipon-winning volume Of Mu ...Show more
Snap! Went Chester by David Miller
$16.98 AUD
Category: Stock Take Dept | Series: Lothian Australian Favou Ser.
Chester the crocodile who is a bit bored. Then he discovers it's lots of fun to snap his big jaws at the creatures around him - until one of them snaps back! Tania Cox's playful text and David Miller's stunning collage illustrations make this a read-aloud favourite kids will want to hear again and again ...Show more
Snatched by Pirates (My Australian Story) by Patricia Bernard
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children 10 plus | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
The perahu's crew is yelling in Malay for us to stop. Samuel is shouting that they are pirates and that they will rob us. I'm hiding my diary and pencil inside my shirt ...Billy Shanghai Hamilton has been blackbirded-snatched by pirates in the Torres Strait and forced to work on a pearling boat. Greed f ...Show more
So She Did: The Story of May Wirth (HB) by Simi Genziuk; Renee Treml (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Australian Woman Circus Performer
At a time when girls weren't encouraged to be bold and daring, Australian circus rider May Wirth lived by her own rules. Instead of just looking pretty on a fancy circus pony, she longed to do thrilling stunts that would amaze crowds with her courage and skill... So she did. Here is the story of a girl ...Show more
Songs by Don Walker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Don Walker is widely considered one of Australia's greatest songwriters. For over forty years - from Cold Chisel and Tex, Don & Charlie to his solo work - he has written songs that capture what it is to be Australian. Collected here, for the first time, are lyrics from his extensive career- from 'K ...Show more
Songs of a War Boy (Young Readers Edition) by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's | Series: Australian | Reading Level: near fine
Deng Adut was six years old when war came to his village in South Sudan. Taken from his mother, he was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He was taught to use an AK-47 then sent into battle. Shot in the back, dealing with illness and the relentless brutality of war, Deng's future was b ...Show more
South Australia by Linsie Tan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's | Series: Australian States and Territories | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
From its wineries and coastline in the south, to its deserts in the remote north, South Australia is a state of contrasts. Find out about Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, how it can transform from a brittle salt lake into a wetland. Discover how the early colony of South Australia managed to develop without the b ...Show more
Split: True stories of leaving, loss and new beginnings by Peter Bishop; Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: True Stories by Prominent Australian Writers
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of significant endings and their aftermath. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie P ...Show more
Stowaway to Botany Bay by Chrissie Michaels
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teenage Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
I dared not move... I was a bread stealer. A chicken feather villain. A salted mutton thief. I guiltily recalled the paper, the ink, the leather pouch I had stolen. And even though I had not intended it so... I was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowin ...Show more
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy
$28.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Australian Works
Is Furphy's great novel first published in 1903, and signalled the end of the "colonial romance" by its realistic portrayal of Australian rural life.