Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 94 by Joëlle Gergis
27.99 AUD
Category: Magazines & Newspapers
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia? Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country? This searing essay by a leading climate scientist takes aim at the folly of "adaptation" ...Show more
John Busst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest by Iain McCalman
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst. A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst.Award-winning historian Iain McCalman reveals the little-known story of influential Australian conservationist, John Büsst. Known to his enemies as ‘The Bingal ...Show more
Smoke by Michael Brissenden
34.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
'The best crime book I've read this year. Kept me guessing right to the end. The setting is brilliant, the characters compelling, the writing elegant, the plot bewitching, the tension palpable. A winner.'Chris Hammer 'A great book and an engrossing read that I just could not put down. Michael Brissende ...Show more
The Story Thief by Kyra Geddes
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An elegant blend of fact and fiction, The Story Thief is a stirring drama set against pivotal moments in Australian history, about a young woman who discovers her family's story has been appropriated by Henry Lawson for his famous tale, The Drover's Wife. 'Brimming with evocative, authentic detail, The ...Show more
Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia: A Groundbreaking Collection of Torres Strait Islander Voices, Past and Present by Samantha Faulkner
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"My people are expert navigators, adventurers, innovators, ambassadors, teachers, storytellers, performers, strategists, chefs and advocates for change. The blood runs deep when I reflect on the past and the present and imagine what our future might look like." -Leilani Bin-Juda What makes Zenadth Kes/ ...Show more
Australian Women Pilots: Amazing true stories of women in the air by Kathy Mexted
39.99 AUD
Category: History
There's a lot of aeroplanes and aviators down in that water. Thank God I'm not one of them.From pioneering and outback flights to delivering Spitfires or tackling the jungles of New Guinea, Australian Women Pilots tells of ten Australians with extraordinary stories.Women have been flying since the early ...Show more
Julia @ Women's Liberation by Ryan, Julia
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A memoir and must-read for anyone interested in the Women’s Liberation movement within the sweeping history of second-wave feminism.From inside the movement, Julia traces how it formed in Australia and what happened for one activist over the first twenty-five years from an up-close, deeply reflective an ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more