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The Greatest Hit: Australia Reads by Will Kostakis
$2.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
When you love somebody, you have to sing it from the rooftops, literally. But can Tessa reveal the truth behind the viral music video that made her internet-famous? An exclusive story for AUSTRALIA READS. People look at Tessa and see her biggest mistake. While everyone else her age is taking their bold ...Show more
Witness by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, M ...Show more
The Aussie Slang Dictionary by Australian Geographic
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
A new, larger-format version of our beloved slang dictionary. Australian English has always been rich in slang and dialect words, many of which – dinkum for example – came out from Great Britain with the convicts and their meanings and pronunciation changed. Words from Indigenous languages, such as boom ...Show more
The New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary by R Beckett
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
A completely revised and expanded edition of this perennial favourite with over 240 new entries. Packed with classic lines of vernacular humour and incisive observations, this Dictionary will open your eyes to the strangeness and the poetry of Australian lingo. It is designed to enlighten new arrivals a ...Show more
Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits: Australia's Most Amazing True Life Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
From an eccentric musical genius to an escaped convict who ended up Japan, Jim Haynes reveals some of Australia's most amazing, and sometimes unbelievable, true life stories
Coodabeen Champions 40th Anniversary by The Coodabeen Champions
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
What's a Saturday morning in Winter without the Coodabeens on the ABC? Share a trip down memory lane with The Coodabeen Champions in this celebration of 40 years of broadcasting with stories and photos from a truly unique Australian entertainment institution. Follow the much-loved show from its creati ...Show more
Gouger of the Bulletin - Part 2 by Ion Idriess; Jim Bradly (Editor, Notes by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
This second volume of 'Gouger' contains more of the early writings of Ion Idriess, many written under his various pseudonyms that were previously not located with the great story-teller. Most of these stories, articles and paragraphs have never been in book form until now, and are the result of much pai ...Show more
Outback Pioneers by Evan Mchugh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
McHugh gathers the enthralling stories of the men and women who opened up the Australian outback and in the process discovered the beauty and terror of this extraordinary country.
Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia by Ian Hoskins
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
Rivers have long run in the blood of Australians. Givers of life and subjects of anguish, Australian rivers have shaped the nation from the moment the first Australians arrived tens of thousands of years ago. Offering the vital ingredient for life, they are also guardians of culture, a means of transpor ...Show more
Rooted: An Australian History of Bad Language by Amanda Laugesen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
Bugger, rooted, bloody oath...What is it about Australians and swearing? We've got an international reputation for using bad language (Where the bloody hell are ya?) and letting rip with a choice swear word or two has long been a very Aussie thing to do. From the defiant curses of the convicts and bullo ...Show more
The Big Book of Great Australian Bush Yarns by Graham Seal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
Two of Graham Seal's bestselling collections of stories from around Australia, now in one volume.
Up and down the Real Australia by Arthur Upfield; Kees de Hoog (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Stories
Arthur William Upfield is well known as the creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) who features in 29 crime detection novels, most set in the Australian outback. It is not well known that he also wrote about 250 short stories and articles, drawing on his experiences in the bush between ...Show more
