Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me: Two women's journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia by Andra Putnis
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When she breaks an unspoken family code not to dig too deep into the past, Andra is plunged into the bleak world of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia in World War II, and secret lives of her grandmothers. As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled ...Show more
Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories by National Library National Library of Australia
19.99 AUD
Category: NLA Publications
Stories of migration are very much part of the Australian experience. In most homes in Australia, you will find a bookcase, mantelpiece or shelf with a display of family photos. Intimate galleries chronical the individuals, both young and old, who populate the family tree. Sometimes the images reach bac ...Show more
Stop Screaming, I'm Scared Too: An Australian soldier's story by Rod Henderson
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
This book is part Chickenhawk and part Exit Wounds ... a powerful and timely contribution to a nation's understanding of what we ask of our service men and women and the debt we owe ... Matt Anderson PSM, Director, Australian War Memorial 'Stop screaming, I'm scared too!' is not what you'd expect to see ...Show more
Vintage Crochet: Classic Australian Patterns by National Library of Australia
39.99 AUD
Category: Art
Featuring vintage crochet patterns found in Australian publications, including the Australian Women's Weekly and the Australian Woman's Mirror, this book has instructions for a variety of garments, accessories, toys and homewares. Each pattern will be accompanied by illustrations from the original publ ...Show more
Across Great Divides: True Stories of Life at Sydney Cove by Susan E Boyer
26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Across Great Divides, true stories of life at Sydney Cove will appeal to all readers, young, old and in-between, who love to be immersed in a good read, while learning new things. The stories will no doubt make you wonder, what would I have done? Across Great Divides, true stories of life at Sydney ...Show more
A Vision Splendid : How the Griffins Imagined Australia's Capital by National Archives of Australia
11.95 AUD
Category: Canberra
This booklet includes reproductions of the 12 exquisite watercolour drawings by Marion Mahony Griffin that formed Walter Burley Griffin's winning entry in the 1912 competition for the design of Australia's capital. Features also an essay by leading Griffin scholar Christopher Vernon on the history of th ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year'Magical . . . Here we meet not just Mantel the Cromwell-catcher, b ...Show more
London: an Illustrated Literary Companion (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rosemary Gray (Other)
22.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
An exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating journey through the city. London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of London over recent centuries, through diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts from g ...Show more
How Not to Lose $1 Million: Win at investing by losing less by John Addis
32.99 AUD
Category: Business and Economics
John Addis believes that most people probably shouldn t be managing their own money. However, if you do, or want to, this book will help you to get better at it by avoiding the traps. The key lesson in the book is that successful investors don t concentrate on picking winners; instead they work on minim ...Show more
Outdoor Games for Today's Kids by Helen Topor 10th
40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A guide for parents, educators and recreation leaders to encourage children in their care to play popular traditional games outdoors as a means of combatting childhood obesity.The games come with easy-to-follow instructions and were inspired by the play of child migrants in Benalla Migrant Camp, Victori ...Show more
Shakespeare's Book - The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris
24.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'Financial Times'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It's a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing to both enthusia ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
22.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright.Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London by storm over 400 years ago, Shakespeare has remained centre stage. His fame stems not o ...Show more