Back Roads: The Great Aussie Road Trip by Heather Ewart
27.99 AUD
34.99 (20% off)
Category: Australiana
Heather's favourite road trips around Australia, revealing towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. There's no better way to see this vast country of ours than by hitting roads along the coastline, or heading inland ...Show more
Dreaming in the Urban Areas: First Nations Classics by Lisa Bellear, Kirli Saunders
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Lisa Bellear's poetry moves sharply between street-smart portrayals of poverty and dispossession, and the complexity of Black love, identity and experience. She reaches into the unspeakable parts of a colonial past in order to unpick the ongoing repercussions of Australia's invasion and history.Written ...Show more
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics by Larissa Behrendt, Fiona Foley
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a s ...Show more
Me, Antman & Fleabag: First Nations Classics by Gayle Kennedy, Jared Thomas
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Take one woman, her partner Antman and their dog Fleabag, pack up the car, turn up the country music and you've got one spirited road trip makin' room for all the good things in life, like family, laughin', travellin' and, best of all, love.Winner of the 2006 David Unaipon Award, Me, Antman & Fleaba ...Show more
Plains of Promise: First Nations Classics by Mykaela Saunders
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
In this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page.In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's far North, black and white cultures collide in a t ...Show more
Mazin' Grace: First Nations Classics by Dylan Coleman, Claire G Coleman
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Papa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn't help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that ...Show more
Bitin' Back: First Nations Classics by Vivienne Cleven
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians
When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny but ...Show more
Everything Is Water: A River-Walking Journey by Simon Cleary
32.99 AUD
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Category: Australiana
Four weeks, 344km and one inspiring river journeyWhen writer and hiking enthusiast Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of a river that has so influenced his life, he hopes that by walking its banks he will better understand the power and impact of this immense waterway on the environment and comm ...Show more
The Last of the Nomads by W J Peasley
23.99 AUD
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Category: Indigenous Australians
Described by the Australian Book Review as 'deeply moving', this is the story of Warri and Yatungka, an exiled couple who spent thirty years exiled in the Gibson Desert. Partners for life, Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe of desert nomads to live permanently in th ...Show more
Grandfather Emu: and How The Kangaroo got her Pouch by Jacki Ferro
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Category: Indigenous Australians
Poor old Grandfather Emu can hardly walk or see. Of all the bush animals, who will lead old Weij to the creek for food and water? In this fun Aboriginal Dreaming story, children learn how Mother Yonga Kangaroo got her pouch, and the importance of taking the time to help.
TRACY - 50 Years, 50 Stories
32.99 AUD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
50 stories from survivors of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974.Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a s ...Show more
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
23.99 AUD
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Category: Australian Biography
A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home. In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. Combining pages of her diary, kept thro ...Show more