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Scapegoats of the Empire: The True Story of Breaker Morant's Bushveldt Carbineers by Edward Witton 9781774641873
RRP: £7.95£7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641873Author Edward WittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: £19.99£13.09'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.'MELBOURNE, 20... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: £14.99£10.95An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian... -
The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison story in Australian and Irish history by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: £18.99£12.52The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish... -
Warriors in Scarlet: The Life and Times of the Last Redcoats by Ian Knight
RRP: £30.00£20.64Ian Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of Bossendon Wood to the Crimean War, a period of seismic change.An acclaimed military historian, Knight draws on... -
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World by Peter Moore
RRP: £14.99£9.78**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history, adventure and science. From Johnson's Dictionary to... -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe 9781911344780
RRP: £12.99£8.81History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men,... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: £12.99£8.73Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan ... -
Las Voces del Desierto / Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
RRP: £13.95£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788498722680Author Marlo MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint B de BolsilloPublisher Penguin Random House Grupo EditorialWeight(grams)... -
The Throwaway Children by Diney Costeloe
RRP: £9.99£7.36Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable - the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War II. Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a... -
Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent by Stephen Muecke
RRP: £7.95£5.78Here is a lively, vibrantly illustrated social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. The book explores the spiritual beliefs and Dreamings of the Indigenous people, their complex social structures and... -
Australian Bushrangers 1788-1880 by Ian Knight
RRP: £11.99£8.68The first 'bushrangers' or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness - 'the bush' - in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small,... -
Australia: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Kenneth Morgan
RRP: £8.99£6.70In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features of its history, geography, and culture since the beginning of the white settlement in New South Wales in... -
Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island by Steven Roger Fischer 9781861892829
£20.83Famed for its breathtaking isolation, Easter Island was a verdant South-Sea idyll when a small canoeful of Polynesians arrived in c. AD 700. Centuries later the island's statues were famous throughout the world. This book presents a comprehensive history... -
'Ten Pound Poms': A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia by A. James Hammerton
RRP: £15.99£12.20More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life histories, this is the first substantial history of... -
Dead Man Running by Duncan McNab
RRP: £25.00£17.62'We are the people our parents warned us about' is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs. For ten years, Steve Utah was a Bandidos insider. He arranged the security of their clubhouses and electronic... -
Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash
RRP: £12.99£8.43When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a... -
Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines by Greg Bankoff
RRP: £47.99£43.78Engagingly written with 34 graphs and 15 tables showing climate changes and the history of hazards in the PhilippinesWith the current threat of global warming, this is something that will affect other countries in the futureThis study will be of interest... -
The Story of Australia's People Vol. II: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
RRP: £17.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761041945Author Geoffrey BlaineyFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II by George H. Johnston 9781594161513
£15.86Following their attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines, the Japanese invaded New Guinea in early 1942 as part of their attempt to create a Pacific empire. Control of New Guinea would enable Japan to establish large army, air... -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia by Robert Macklin
RRP: £14.99£9.57'Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history'Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner 'A truly remarkable account drawing... -
Alchemy and Rose: A sweeping new novel from the author of The House Between Tides, the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year by Sarah Maine
RRP: £8.99£6.19A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s'Its portrayal of life in a gold-rush town is vivid, and Rose's story is absorbing' The Times'Worth reading for its... -
Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo jail, Amiens 1944 by Robert Lyman
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance... -
The Lives of Colonial Objects by Annabel Cooper
RRP: £22.50£18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322024Author Annabel CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 1270g -
Spitfire VC vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen by Peter Ingman
RRP: £13.99£10.00Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, Darwin was mauled by a massive Japanese attack. Without a single fighter to defend Australian soil, the Australian government made a special appeal to Britain for Spitfires. A year later the Spitfire VC-equipped No 1... -
Making a New Land: Enviromental Histories of New Zealand by Eric Pawson 9781877578526
RRP: £34.95£16.45Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of... -
James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: £20.00£13.09Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook?The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in... -
Atomic Thunder: British Nuclear testing in Australia by Dr Elizabeth Tynan 9781526727572
RRP: £16.99£12.68British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people... -
The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £9.99£6.73By the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Australia. Posted to... -
Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn
RRP: £10.99£7.50Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan had not only cut tracks through the bush, but... -
A Secret Country by John Pilger
RRP: £14.99£10.95Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high... -
The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £12.99£9.34The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the Sydney experiment, with criminals perceived to be damaging... -
Maori Philosophy by Dr Georgina Stewart
RRP: £17.99£17.02Covering the symbolic systems and worldviews of the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, this book is a concise introduction to Maori philosophy. It addresses core philosophical issues including Maori notions of the self, the world, epistemology,... -
Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket by Christian Ryan
RRP: £11.99£8.18**Voted Wisden Cricket Monthly's best cricket book ever in 2019**WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010_________________Golden Boy is a blistering expose of the tumultuous Lillee/Marsh/Chappells era of Australian cricket, as viewed... -
DK Eyewitness Sydney by DK
RRP: £13.99£10.00The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Sydney.Marvel at the iconic silhouette of the Sydney Opera House, take surfing lessons on Bondi Beach or sip coffee... -
Dancing With Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788 by Inga Clendinnen
RRP: £15.99£10.95In January of 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neighbours; the beach nomads of Australia. "These people mixed with ours," wrote a British observer soon after... -
The Road to Singapore: the Myth of British Betrayal by Augustine Meaher
RRP: £25.00£15.84Generations of Australians have been reared on the belief the fall of Singapore in February 1942 was a British betrayal that exposed Australia to Japanese invasion. In The Road to Singapore a young American historian, using archival records from across... -
Mr Peacock's Possessions: THE TIMES Book of the Year by Lydia Syson
RRP: £8.99£3.76'Intelligent, beautifully written' The Times'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author' Stella Magazine'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined' Lancashire Evening PostOceania, 1879. For two years the Peacocks,... -
Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: £20.00£13.09The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's great epics - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them... -
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low 9780300221664
RRP: £22.50£20.24An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the birds...