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Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History Ser.
Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewive ...Show more
School Days for Ruby (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #3) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
$17.99 (16% off)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
It's 1931 . . .and Ruby is settling into life at her school in the country. But when a desperately poor family moves to the area, no one wants to be friends with them. Ruby will have to choose sides, and she has already made one enemy at school - Doris Spinks. Will Ruby do what she believes is right? An ...Show more
Secrets and Sisterhood by Jenny Pausacker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Jan Packard starts a diary because she is bored, but she suddenly finds there is a lot happening around her. Everyone seems to be changing and doing things she never expected. Her mum is attending consciousness-raising meetings, her best friend has gone boy-crazy, she discovers her older brother was a d ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
$19.99 AUD
$26.00 (23% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Short excerpt: Without doubt she was the worst of the seven probably because she was the cleverest. Her brilliant inventive powers plunged them all into ceaseless scrapes.
Sian: A New Australian by D. Luckett
$15.99 AUD
Category: Accessories | Series: A New Australian Ser.
Sian is the unlucky thirteenth child in a Welsh coalminers family. Life is hard; her mother died after giving birth to her and her father is grief-stricken. Sians eldest sister hatches a plan to take them both far away, to find a better life. It will be a long voyage across the ocean, but Sian is lookin ...Show more
Six Minutes by Petronella McGovern
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian
An unputdownable thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty and Caroline Overington. If you were gripped watching The Cry, you'll be hooked on Six Minutes. Impossible to put down and full of twists and turns you won't see coming! I loved this fabulous debut novel.' Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Nine Pe ...Show more
Six Seconds: The Newcastle Earthquake (My Australian Story) by Alan Sunderland
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
I could hardly see. There was dust and smoke everywhere. I was falling, sliding down into a gap that had opened up between parts of the collapsed building. It was dark and silent. all I could hear was the sound of my own breathing, and my beating heart thumping in my ears. Then I heard the cry again: th ...Show more
Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones
$34.95 AUD
$46.55 (24% off)
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History
Dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth and economic devastation: we feel we understand drought and yet there is more to this story. Australias long history of drought has goaded people to adapt and respond creatively. This book explores the way people have lived and worked with drought from the nineteenth ...Show more
Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson
$22.95 AUD
$31.00 (25% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. Smoke Encrypted Whispers contains poems from all of Samuel Wagan Watson's publications, as well as his unpublished new work. This generous collection opens with his 1999 Unaipon-winning volume Of Mu ...Show more
Snap! Went Chester by David Miller
$16.99 AUD
$19.99 (15% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Lothian Australian Favou Ser.
Chester the crocodile who is a bit bored. Then he discovers it's lots of fun to snap his big jaws at the creatures around him - until one of them snaps back! Tania Cox's playful text and David Miller's stunning collage illustrations make this a read-aloud favourite kids will want to hear again and again ...Show more
Snatched by Pirates (My Australian Story) by Patricia Bernard
$16.99 AUD
$21.00 (19% off)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
The perahu's crew is yelling in Malay for us to stop. Samuel is shouting that they are pirates and that they will rob us. I'm hiding my diary and pencil inside my shirt ...Billy Shanghai Hamilton has been blackbirded-snatched by pirates in the Torres Strait and forced to work on a pearling boat. Greed f ...Show more
So She Did: The Story of May Wirth (HB) by Simi Genziuk; Renee Treml (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Hardback | Series: Australian Woman Circus Performer
At a time when girls weren't encouraged to be bold and daring, Australian circus rider May Wirth lived by her own rules. Instead of just looking pretty on a fancy circus pony, she longed to do thrilling stunts that would amaze crowds with her courage and skill... So she did. Here is the story of a girl ...Show more