Browse by category
The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Classics
The year 1788: the very beginning of European settlement. These were times of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all, they were times of conflict between the Aborigines and the white settlers. Eleanor Dark brings alive those bitter years with moments of tenderness and conciliation amid the brutality an ...Show more
The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark
Category: Classic | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
First published in 1941, Eleanor Dark's classic novel of the early settlement of Australia is a story of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all it is the story of conflict: between the Aborigines and the white settlers. In this dramatic novel, a large cast of characters, historical and fictional, black ...Show more
The Tram to Bondi Beach 40th Anniversary Edition by Libby Hathorn
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A story of a young boy's adventures working as a paperboy on the busy trams, travelling to Bondi Beach. Keiran wants nothing more than to be a paperboy on the busy trams, to Bondi Beach. What he discovers along the way, through daring and friendship, is a deep love of the trams themselves. Rattle and hu ...Show more
The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy by Vince Scappatura
Category: Politics | Series: Australian Studies
Australian society and its leaders generally take for granted the importance and value of this nations relationship with the United States. The US is commonly thought of as the worlds great purveyor of liberal values and the rule of law, and as a powerful friend indispensable to Australian security. In ...Show more
The Venetian Twins: A Musical Comedy by Carlo Goldoni
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Australian Playhouse S.
This comedy of love and errors set on a single day, somewhere between Verona and jindyworobak, has entranced audiences for twenty years. This entertaining romp put an Australian spin on Goldoni's classic Italian farce (2 acts, 7 men, 3 women).
The Weekend Cook by SUSAN TOMNAY
Category: Cook Books | Series: "Australian Women's Weekly"
The Western Desert Campaign 1940-41 (#2 Australian Army Campaigns) 2nd ed. by Glenn Wahlert
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns S.
While the North African campaign has been studied in detail over the years, much of this study has been dedicated to the battles between the British 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps. There has been little serious study of Wavell's campaign against Italian forces in 1940- 41, nor of the role played by ...Show more
There Was an Old Sailor by Claire Saxby
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Australian
A delightful new twist on an old tale! There was an old sailor who swallowed a krill. I don't know why he swallowed the krill - it'll make him ill ... A nautical take on a much-loved rhyme.
They Came to Australia - Explorers Before European Settlement by Joel Weston
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian Geographic History
A new series about early Australian history, written specifically with the new Australian History Curriculum in mind. The stories of the many European explorers - Tasman, Hartog, Cook and more - whose voyages brought them to the Australian continent before 1788. Learn what motivated them, and how they m ...Show more
Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine by Paul Sharrad
Category: Biography | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
Booker Prize winner and Living National Treasure, Thomas Keneally still divides critical opinion: he is both a morally challenging stylist and a commercial hack, a wise commentator on society and a garrulous leprechaun. Such judgements are located in the cultural politics of Australia but also linked to ...Show more
Thriving on Plants: by Cherie Tu by Cherie Tu
Category: Cook Books | Series: AUSTRALIAN WOMENS WEEKLY
Since becoming vegan on 20 January 2014, Cherie Tu has made it her mission to help inspire others through cooking.Whether you're looking to incorporate more vegies in your diet or simply curious about plant-based foods, Thriving On Plants allows you to learn, create and have fun in the kitchen. This boo ...Show more
Time, Tide and History - Essays on the Writing of Eleanor Dark by Brigid Rooney (Editor); Fiona Morrison (Editor)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Time, Tide and History: Essays on the Writing of Eleanor Dark is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark's fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark's writing. This volume not only establishes a new view of ...Show more