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The Deadly Flu by Kerry Greenwood
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
Following the horrors of the First World War, a danger arises that will kill more people around the world than the Great War itself - an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, finds herself experiencing at close hand the effects of this devastating disease - and when it ...Show more
The Deep North A Selection of Poems by Bronwyn Lea
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Australian Poets Ser.
The Braziller Series of Australia Poets continues with the acclaimed poet, Bronwyn Lea, deemed "the brightest light to emerge in Australian poetry" in many years (Geoffrey Lehmann, Weekend Australian) Lea's work is a brilliant mapping of the overlapping regions of our sensual, psychic and emotional worl ...Show more
The Devil's Playground by Christos Tsiolkas
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Fred Schepisi's film, 'The Devil's Playground' is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith. Made in 1976, this semi-autobiog ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
Category: Military | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
The Farm : Images of Rural Australia by ANDREW CHAPMAN
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian Coffee Table Books
Australia’s countryside, deeply and richly scarred by the human presence, shows the marks of sweat and toil, of lives and generations, of triumphs and failures and of enterprise often slowly decaying with time.These beautiful images captured by Andrew Chapman in The Farm are glimpses of the past amidst ...Show more
The First Fleet by Alan Boardman, Roland Harvey
Category: Picture Books | Series: Roland Harvey's Australian History
The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740-1914 by Stuart Piggin; Robert D. Linder
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The official religion brought to Australia with the First Fleet was Evangelical Christianity, the 'vital religion' then shaping public policy through William Wilberforce and his fellow evangelicals. That it has shaped Australian history ever since, making a substantial contribution to the public prosper ...Show more
The Fountain of Public Prosperity - Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740¿1914 by Stuart Piggin; Robert D. Linder
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The official religion brought to Australia with the First Fleet was Evangelical Christianity, the 'vital religion' then shaping public policy through William Wilberforce and his fellow evangelicals. That it has shaped Australian history ever since, making a substantial contribution to the public prosper ...Show more
The Getting of Wisdom - Penguin Australian Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
When Laura Rambotham arrives at an exclusive Melbourne girls school from her country home, she is ridiculed by the other pupils for her differences - her name, her unusual clothes and, especially, for her 'unpardonable sin': her exceptional musical ability. Laura endures ostracism and misery as she trie ...Show more
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
Category: First Nations | Series: Australian History Ser.
Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other?In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a m ...Show more
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History
In this superbly researched book Bain Attwood eschews the generalisations of national and colonial history to provide a finely grained local history of the Djadja Wurrung people of Central Victoria. Insisting on the importance of grappling with a history that involved a relationship between the people o ...Show more