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Twenty by Matthew Lunn
Category: Australian Art | Series: Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft S.
Sherman Galleries in 2006 is more a centre of art and culture than a commercial gallery. Its operations reach beyond the exhibition, promotion and sale of artworks to the mentoring of artists, the education of collectors and the wider public, and engaging with international visual arts communities.
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian
Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia.Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man's discovery, in Vietnam and back home in the Northern Territory, Sh ...Show more
Tyenna: Through My Eyes (Australian Disaster Zones) by Julie Hunt, Terry Whitebeach
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones
An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl's experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires. They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost. It's the summer holidays, and Tye ...Show more
UNSUNG HERO FIRST AUSTRALIANS W 4 by ALBERT TRISH
Category: No Category | Series: First Australians: Plenty Stories
Today all Australians have equal rights by law, but this was not always the case. For Aboriginal soldiers returning from active service in the Second World War, the inequalities were made especially stark. Why didn't they have a voice in society? Despite generations of unfair treatment, Indigenous peopl ...Show more
Unbranded by Herb Wharton
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
From the riotous picnic races to the famous Mt Isa rodeo, from childhood in the yumba to gutsy outback pubs, Unbrandedpresents a strikingly original vision of Australia. With a rollicking cast of stockmen, shearers, barmaids and tourists, this novel is the story of three men. Sandy is a white man; Bindi ...Show more
Unnamed Desires A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The first in-depth study of female same-sex desire in twentieth-century Australia, this book explores the compelling stories of ordinary women who struggled to build lives and express their love for other women in a hostile society. Focusing on Sydney and country New South Wales in the mid-twentieth-cen ...Show more
Vagabond Papers by John Stanley James
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History
Australian life has never had a chronicler quite like the Vagabond. Renowned as journalist and 'eminently unconventional character', he suffered extremes of poverty and prosperity. These enabled him to record first-hand experiences revealing the degradation of life in the festering slums of the Victoria ...Show more
Vegetarian by Australian Women's Weekly
Category: Cooking | Series: The\Australian Women's Weekly: New Essentials Ser.
Whether you're a committed vegetarian, looking to reduce your meat consumption for environmental reasons, or just hoping to broaden the variety in your diet, the inspirational recipes in this book are satisfying, delicious and nutritious. Veggie food needn't mean hours of chopping - and this selection o ...Show more
Vietnam (My Australian Story) by Deborah Challinor
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Here we are, fighting alongside the so-called mightiest nation on earth with all the firepower you could ask forjets, B52s, tanks, gunships, rockets, napalm, you name itand the VC are creeping around with a rifle each and we still can't beat the buggers! And it's getting worse, not better. It's 1969. Th ...Show more
Vincent and the Grandest Hotel on Earth by Lisa Nicol
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Australian
Vincent is an ordinary boy - he lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary town. But Vincent's life changes dramatically when he meets young Florence from The Grandest Hotel on Earth. From shining shoes next to a dirty train station, to working in a hotel where your wildest dreams can come true, Vincent ...Show more
WELCOME TO MER ISLAND FIRST AUSTRALIANS W 3 by ALBERT TRISH
Category: Children's History | Series: First Australians: Plenty Stories
Meet Joey, a Meriam person from remote Mer Island in the Torres Strait. Learn about Joey's cultural identity and efforts to keep his history alive. What traditions are important to Meriam people and how do they express their connections to their place? Discover why a High Court ruling in 1992 attracted ...Show more
WHISPERS OF THIS WIK WOMAN by Doyle Fiona
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
This richly illustrated account of Cape York activist Jean George Awumpun, written from the personal perspective of family, is a rare illustration of the inseparable bonds of ancestory and country. Through the eyes of her grandaughter, this proud Alngith Elder's struggle in claiming her country is movin ...Show more