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Tom the Outback Mailman by Kristin Weidenbach
$16.98 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Lothian Australian Favourites
Tom Kruse was a real Australian hero. He delivered the mail to outback stations and towns all along the Birdsville Track. It was a tough job, but Tom was even tougher, making sure that the mail got through no matter what. Based on her bestselling book, MAILMAN OF THE BIRDSVILLE TRACK, Kristin Weidenbach ...Show more
Trump in Asia : Australian Foreign Affairs issue 2 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
'We've hidden behind a hope that American power and resolve will again prevail. Trump tears away any excuse for wishful thinking.' MICHAEL WESLEY The second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the United States' sudden shift from the Asia Pivot to America First. It provides insights into Do ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Australian
Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia.Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man's discovery, in Vietnam and back home in the Northern Territory, Sh ...Show more
Tyenna: Through My Eyes (Australian Disaster Zones) by Julie Hunt, Terry Whitebeach
$18.99 AUD
Category: Teenage Fiction | Series: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones
An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl's experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires. They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost. It's the summer holidays, and Tye ...Show more
Vietnam (My Australian Story) by Deborah Challinor
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children 10 plus | Series: My Australian Story
Here we are, fighting alongside the so-called mightiest nation on earth with all the firepower you could ask forjets, B52s, tanks, gunships, rockets, napalm, you name itand the VC are creeping around with a rifle each and we still can't beat the buggers! And it's getting worse, not better. It's 1969. Th ...Show more
Vincent and the Grandest Hotel on Earth by Lisa Nicol
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children 10 plus | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Vincent is an ordinary boy - he lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary town. But Vincent's life changes dramatically when he meets young Florence from The Grandest Hotel on Earth. From shining shoes next to a dirty train station, to working in a hotel where your wildest dreams can come true, Vincent ...Show more
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new volume of poems - his first in five years - continues his use of molten language. From 'The Black Beaches' to 'Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa', from 'High Speed Trap Space' to 'The Electric, 1960', this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. 'No poet has ever travelled lik ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Desmond Digby (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
This ballad of the sheep-stealing swagman is known the world over. Here, with 'Banjo' Paterson's original lyrics and Freya Blackwood's stunning ochre-toned paintings, we are treated not just to the swagman's story, but to the story of the shearers' strikes of the time, of the squatter's family, and of t ...Show more
War by Carol Fallows
$39.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Memories in Black and White S.
Commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. This collection of stills from the Cinesound and Movietone Newsreel Archive, captures Australians at war as they fought at home and abroad for their country.
Wau 1942 - 1943 (#6 Australian Army Campaigns) by Phillip Bradley
$19.98 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns
Based on a detailed analysis of the battlefield, this book outlines how the victory at Wau was achieved and demonstrates how determined leadership can turn the tide of battle. Throughout most of 1942, the Australian Army fought a series of commando actions to keep the Japanese at bay in the Wau - Salama ...Show more
Western Australia by Linsie Tan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's | Series: Australian States and Territories | Reading Level: Grade 03-06
Western Australia is the largest state in Australia and has a capital city than can claim to be the most isolated in the world. With a sparse population and vast areas of desert and wilderness, Western Australia is a resource-rich state. Its mining industry powers its economy and also underpins the weal ...Show more
Winston and the Wondrous Wooba Gymnastics Club by Tamsin Janu
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
When Winstons new step-sister-to-be Macy moves to Woobawittawoo with her dad, life in their small town quickly turns upside down. Winston is thrilled, but Macy is miserable. Wooba might have the Big Bread, but what use is a crumbling tourist attraction when Macy wants to become an Olympic gymnast? Its ...Show more