Australia & New Zealand

This book analyses the use and abuse of social welfare as a means of border control for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia.Offering an unparalleled critique of the regulation and deterrence of protection seekers via the denial or depletion of...

The 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...

In the second volume of his official history of the Falklands Campaign, Lawrence Freedman provides a detailed and authoritative account of one of the most extraordinary periods in recent British political history and a vivid portrayal of a government at...

Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived.The son of pioneer pastoralists in South Australia, Hubert studied engineering before moving on to photography. In 1908 he sailed for England and a job producing films with the...

The 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...

Since 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...

'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...

Apologies 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

This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. This title covers a wide range of subjects, including...

An 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...

An 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...

In 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...

Expatriate 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...

Expatriate 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...

Vivacious, 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688016203Author John CostelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 940gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies 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)...

Falkland 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...

The 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,...

Apologies 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

In 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...

Douglas 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,...

'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...

Along 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730395454Author Alex McDermottFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

Whiteness is not innate - it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. Learning Whiteness examines the material...

A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years later he was "back from the dead" and in New...

Just 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...

Apologies 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

'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.'JON FAINEThis edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication.Investigative journalist Frank Walker's MARALINGA is a...

By 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...

The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come. 'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'.There's plenty of...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702260421Author Joe GormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams) 372g

This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and...

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473610005Author Mark Sydney PaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Glosson PublishingPublisher Glosson Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786867875Author Sian ReesFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Hyperion BooksPublisher Hyperion BooksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 168mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863514101Author Lynette Ramsay SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Sally Milner Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891416166Author Harry GaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio PressWeight(grams) 653g