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HMAS Sydney: Australia's Greatest Naval Tragedy by Tom Frame
RRP: $17.53$12.09The complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, and the finding of her wreck in 2008. On 19 November 1941, the pride of the Australian Navy, the light cruiser Sydney, fought a close-quarters battle with the German armed raider... -
Super Cheap New Zealand: The Ultimate Travel Guide for Budget Travelers, Backpackers, Campers, Students and Families by Matthew Baxter 9781913114053
RRP: $19.50$16.93Apologies 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... -
Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds by Stuart Kells 9780522877250
RRP: $74.00$43.39The 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: $29.23$4.47Expatriate 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: $29.23$21.35Expatriate 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... -
Maori Philosophy by Dr Georgina Stewart
RRP: $35.08$31.30Covering 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: $23.38$15.46**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: $33.13$23.95'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... -
The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier by Tim Flannery
$25.78Apologies 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 -
Dancing With Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788 by Inga Clendinnen
RRP: $31.18$21.35In 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... -
Dead Man Running by Duncan McNab
RRP: $48.75$34.36'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: $39.00$26.81The 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: $43.88$37.73An 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... -
Australia: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Kenneth Morgan
RRP: $17.53$12.58In 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... -
Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society by Robert Wainwright
RRP: $27.28$19.01Vivacious, 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... -
New Zealand and the British Empire: The History of New Zealand Under British Sovereignty by Charles River Editors 9781724225740
RRP: $25.82$20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781724225740Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich
$41.48Why 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,... -
Amphibious Assault Falklands: the Battle of San Carlos Water by Michael Clapp 9781844155064
RRP: $35.08$26.03Since 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... -
Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent by Stephen Muecke
RRP: $15.50$10.30Here 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... -
The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison story in Australian and Irish history by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: $37.03$25.64The 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... -
Handbook of Japanese Mythology by Michael Ashkenazi
RRP: $46.78$33.81Japanese 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... -
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 1: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman 9780415419123
RRP: $93.58$81.53Drawing 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... -
Australia'S War 1914-18 by Joan Beaumont
RRP: $48.73$42.53Apologies 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 -
Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue 9781838953720
RRP: $21.43$14.27An 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... -
The Maori: The History and Legacy of New Zealand's Indigenous People by Charles River Editors 9781724562357
RRP: $19.97$15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781724562357Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Unaustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History by Rex Butler 9780909952105
RRP: $42.90$28.39Apologies 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 -
We Come with this Place by Debra Dank 9781804440858
RRP: $25.33$17.02Douglas 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,... -
Atomic Thunder: British Nuclear testing in Australia by Dr Elizabeth Tynan 9781526727572
RRP: $33.13$24.73British 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: $58.40$52.75The 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: $58.50$45.42Along 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... -
The British Subjugation of Australia: The History of British Colonization and the Conquest of the Aboriginal Australians by Charles River Editors 9781721082964
RRP: $19.97$15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781721082964Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Ned Kelly by Peter FitzSimons 9780857988140
RRP: $44.75$30.83Apologies 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: $31.18$22.64In 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... -
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
RRP: $31.18$22.09Apologies 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: $29.23$19.11'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: $19.48$13.26If 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... -
War At The End Of The World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945 by James P. Duffy 9780593471722
RRP: $23.38$15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593471722Author James P. DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
RRP: $48.75$32.35Ninety years on from its opening in 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge remains the most recognisable symbol of Australia. The iconic arch took almost nine years to complete - at a cost of sixteen lives and more than six million pounds - and the people,... -
The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally 9781529345070
RRP: $39.00$13.28By 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: $35.00$29.00Apologies 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