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Super Cheap New Zealand: The Ultimate Travel Guide for Budget Travelers, Backpackers, Campers, Students and Families by Matthew Baxter 9781913114053
RRP: £10.00£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913114053Author Matthew BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Super Cheap GuidesPublisher Super Cheap GuidesWeight(grams) 151gDimensions(mm) 228mm... -
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 1: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman 9780415419123
RRP: £47.99£41.81Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war. In the... -
Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds by Stuart Kells 9780522877250
RRP: £37.95£22.25The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world's largest diamond company, sent gem-hunters to the area but they came away empty-handed. It was a vast region to survey, and they'd... -
A Secret Country by John Pilger 9780099152316 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Expatriate 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... -
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 Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On: Lessons for the Future by Stephen Badsey 9780415350303
RRP: £47.99£41.81A fascinating new insight into the Falklands Conflict, covering every aspect of its origins and the political and diplomatic response to the Argentinean action as well as illuminating accounts of the military action to retake the islands, at every level... -
Maori Philosophy by Dr Georgina Stewart
RRP: £17.99£16.05Covering 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£7.93**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... -
The Mighty 747: Australia's Queen of the Skies by Jim Eames
RRP: £16.99£12.28'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew millions of people to Australia, overseas for work, back to their homelands, on holiday and out of danger. For... -
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 Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier by Tim Flannery
£13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137197Author Tim FlanneryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
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... -
Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: £20.00£13.75The 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... -
Australia: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Kenneth Morgan
RRP: £8.99£6.45In 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... -
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low 9780300221664
RRP: £22.50£19.35An 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... -
Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society by Robert Wainwright
RRP: £13.99£9.75Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quickly conquered English society, and would spend the... -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
RRP: £12.99£11.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534087Author Bruce PascoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm -
Amphibious Assault Falklands: the Battle of San Carlos Water by Michael Clapp 9781844155064
RRP: £17.99£13.35Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. Here he describes, with considerable... -
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£13.15The 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... -
Mr Peacock's Possessions: THE TIMES Book of the Year by Lydia Syson 9781471403699
RRP: £8.99£3.51'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,... -
Australia'S War 1914-18 by Joan Beaumont
RRP: £24.99£21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863734615Author Joan BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g -
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich
RRP: £20.99£18.34Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin,... -
Unaustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History by Rex Butler 9780909952105
RRP: £22.00£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780909952105Author Rex ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Power PublicationsPublisher Power Publications -
Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue 9781838953720
RRP: £10.99£7.32An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which... -
We Come with this Place by Debra Dank 9781804440858
RRP: £12.99£8.73Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-FictionIndigenous Writers' PrizeUTS Glenda Adams Award for New WritingLonglisted for the 2023 Stella PrizePrime Minister's Summer Reading List 2022, Grattan InstituteWe Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich,... -
Handbook of Japanese Mythology by Michael Ashkenazi
RRP: £23.99£17.34Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight million. They are the cast of a vast, complex mythology that encompasses two religions, three cultures, and three millennia, one whose ancient deities are... -
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... -
Pacific Profiles Volume 10: Allied Fighters: P-47d Thunderbolt Series Southwest Pacific 1943-1945 by Michael Claringbould 9780645700404
RRP: £29.95£27.05The ongoing Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served throughout the South Pacific. Volume 10 covers the P-47D Thunderbolt which flew combat missions in the New Guinea theatre until mid-1945, serving with a... -
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler 9780691146362
RRP: £30.00£23.29Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the... -
Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent by Stephen Muecke
RRP: £7.95£5.28Here 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... -
Ned Kelly by Peter FitzSimons 9780857988140
RRP: £22.95£15.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857988140Author Peter FitzSimonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint William Heinemann AustraliaPublisher Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
ANZAC Soldier vs Ottoman Soldier: Gallipoli and Palestine 1915-18 by Si Sheppard
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1915-18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem. This illustrated study investigates the two sides' fighting men. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 pitched the Australian and New Zealand volunteers... -
The European Settlement of Australia: The History and Legacy of Early Expeditions and British Settlements on the Australian Continent by Charles River Editors 9781720604204
RRP: £10.24£8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720604204Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
RRP: £15.99£11.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143790020Author Christine HelliwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Michael JosephPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia by Robert Macklin
RRP: £14.99£9.80'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... -
Firestorm by Tamara McKinley
RRP: £9.99£6.80If you love Lesley Pearse, you're sure to fall for Tamara McKinley. A tale of hardship, hidden identities and our shared struggle to survive. Becky Jackson's family has been managing the hospital in far-flung Morgan's Reach for three generations. When... -
The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally 9781529345070
RRP: £20.00£6.81By the author of Schindler's Ark and master storyteller, Thomas Keneally, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child to Australia. Like his brother Alfred... -
Ka Ngaro Te Reo: Maori Language Under Siege in the 19th Century by Paul Moon 9781927322413
RRP: £17.95£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322413Author Paul MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 566g -
The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw
RRP: £23.99£16.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995143142Author Richard ShawFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm)... -
Invasion 1982: the Falkland Islanders' Story by Graham Bound 9781473853430
RRP: £12.99£9.09Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Channel Islanders during the Second World War. This book tells how islanders' warnings were ignored in London, how their slim defences gave way to a massive...