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'A masterpiece of historical writing that takes your breath away' - Tom Griffiths
'A majestic book' - John Maynard
'Shimmering prose' - Tiffany Shellam
Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River ...
A gay bushranger with a love of poetry and guns. A grotesque hangman with a passion for flowers and gardening.
A broken young man desperate ...
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the long-suppressed correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II, written during Kerr's tumultuous ...
Between January 1919 and March 1920, two waves of Spanish flu swept across Australia, touching every settlement from the bottom of Tasmania to the tip ...
He fought Napoleon's army and survived.
He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose.
Now he is in chains and on his ...
From the frozen wastes of Antarctica to the burning ruins of the Bali bombings, For Gallantry tells the stories of the 28 Australians awarded the ...
Who stole the priceless Picasso from the NGV? Was Errol Flynn a Nazi spy? Did an Australian kill the infamous Red Baron?
If you think ...
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin.
The first came ashore some 50,000 years ...
'Deeply researched with keen judgements, Traitors and Spies is a devastating indictment of Australia's security services and their political masters in the decades before ...
A Free Country- Australians' Search for Utopia 1861-1901 tells how Australians, inspired by their new democracy, attempted to use their freedom to build a society ...
Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and ...
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set sail on a small British naval vessel, the boldly named Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean ...
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasJust after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the ...
Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when ...
Spinning Tops & Gumdrops captures a time when 'imagination, skill, and daring' was the source of
children's play. Quoits and jacks, hide and seek ...
