Snow, Fire and Gold - Bill Spargo and Evelyn Piper's Life in the Australian Mountains by Stephen Whiteside
35.00 AUD
Category: Canberra
Stephen Whiteside knew that Spargo's Hut in the Australian mountains near Mt Hotham had been abandoned for many years. However, when he first visited it in 1982, he got a shock. It looked like it was still inhabited. Could he have been mistaken? Closer inspection revealed that it was, indeed, abandoned. ...Show more
Flying Stations II - The Royal Australian Navy's Fleet Air Arm 1998 - 2022 by Desmond Woods (Editor)
75.00 AUD
Category: Military
Flying Stations II is a chronology of the last quarter-century of Australian Fleet Air Arm activities and events from 1998 until 2022. Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the FAA on 3 July 2022, it follows the original 1998 volume of Flying Stations which chronicled the fir ...Show more
The CAC Boomerang - Australia's Own WWII Fighter by Don Williams
36.95 AUD
Category: Military
The CAC Boomerang has a unique place in Australian aviation history, being the nation's only home designed and produced fighter.The design was born in dark days at the start of the Pacific War when the RAAF possessed not a single modern fighter and the southwards conquest of Japanese forces seemed unsto ...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
The Frontier Below by Jeff Maynard
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our planet. We only see the entrance to it. Beyond that entrance is a world ...Show more
'the Best System of Trenches in Australia' - World War I Training Site, Duntroon Trench Warfare and Bombing School, Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserve, Canberra by Mark Butz
20.00 AUD
Category: Canberra
History under your feet: This is the story (so far) of one of the most surprising finds in the history of Canberra - a World War I trench system within sight of Australia's Parliament House. Through 1916-17 hundreds of Army officers and senior NCOs from across the country participated in the Trench Warf ...Show more