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The Hard Slog : Australians in the Bougainville Campaign, 1944-45 by Karl James
Category: History | Series: Australian Army History Series
The island of Bougainville in the South Pacific was the site of one of the largest and most gruelling campaigns fought by Australian forces during the Second World War. During the offensive against the Japanese from November 1944 to August 1945, more than 500 Australians were killed and two Victoria Cro ...Show more
The Harp In The South - Penguin Australian Classics by Ruth Park
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is scarce and life is not easy. Crammed together within the thin walls of Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street are the Darcy family: Mumma, loving and softhearted; Hughie, her drunken husband; pipe-smoking Grandma; ...Show more
The Hindenburg Line Campaign 1918 (#26 Australian Army Campaigns) by Adam Rankin
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
In the last devastating months of the First World War, the British Fourth Army pursued the Germans to their final defensive position - the Hindenburg Line, a formidable series of defensive positions studded with concrete dugouts and thickly set barbed wire. The Hindenburg Line 1918 describes the two fie ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth - and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by Ne ...Show more
The Killing Streets: Uncovering Australia's First Serial Murderer by Tanya Bretherton
Category: History | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser.
From the acclaimed author of The Suitcase Baby and The Suicide Bride, the story of a series of horrific murders that began in 1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two decades. In December 1932, as the Depression tightened its grip, the body of a woman was found in Queens Park, Sydn ...Show more
The Kokoda Campaign 1942: Myth and Reality by Peter Williams
Category: History | Series: Australian Army History Series
The fighting on the Kokoda Track in World War II is second only to Gallipoli in the Australian national consciousness. The Kokoda campaign of 1942 has taken on mythical status in Australian military history. According to the legend, Australian soldiers were vastly outnumbered by the Japanese, who suffer ...Show more
The Landing At ANZAC, 1915 (#12 Australian Army Campaigns) 2nd ed. by Chris Roberts
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns S.
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history - myths that have endured for almost a century. Told from both the ANZAC and Turkish perspectives, this meticulously researched account questions several of the claims of ...Show more
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 (#12 Australian Army Campaigns) by Chris Roberts
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Series
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history - myths that have endured for almost a century. Told from both the ANZAC and Turkish perspectives, this meticulously researched account questions several of the claims of ...Show more
The Life of Such Is Life - A Cultural History of an Australian Classic by Roger Osborne
Category: Reference | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy's Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphy's handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controv ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney Bulletin' in 1892 when they decided to have a duel of poetry. The idea was to increase the number of poems they could sell to the paper. It began in fun but later became bitter. Paterson wrote many poems and stories about his travels in the Out ...Show more