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Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll by Stuart Coupe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll
This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets. Roadies are the unsung heroes of the Australian music industry. They unload the ...Show more
Ruby and the Country Cousins (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #2) by Penny Matthews
$14.95 AUD
Category: Teenage | Series: Our Australian Girl Ruby #2
It's 1931 . . . and Ruby and her family have lost everything in the Great Depression. Leaving behind her dad, her school friends and everything she knows, Ruby must move to Kettle Farm to stay with her cousins. Life in the country is new and strange, and Ruby has never felt like such an outsider. Thankf ...Show more
Ruby of Kettle Farm (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #4) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Teenage | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
Follow Ruby and join her adventure in the final of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.It's 1931, and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn't written for weeks, and nobody knows where he is. Will Dad ever co ...Show more
Rum Rebellion (My Australian Story) by Libby Gleeson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Education | Series: My Australian Story
'The soldiers are coming,' he said. 'They are checking every house. There is free grog for all.' '...The air was full with the smell of bonfires. Their glare illuminated the night sky and showed to us the streets filled with drunken soldiers and scared citizenry, us amongst them.' David Bellamy fears th ...Show more
Salamaua 1943 by Phillip Bradley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
Between the end of the Kokoda campaign in January 1943 and the start of the New Guinea offensives at Lae in early September 1943, the Australian Army was engaged in some of the most intense and challenging fighting of the war for the ridges around Salamaua. Following the defeat of the Japanese offensive ...Show more
Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian History Ser.
Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewive ...Show more
School Days for Ruby (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #3) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Teenage | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
It's 1931 . . .and Ruby is settling into life at her school in the country. But when a desperately poor family moves to the area, no one wants to be friends with them. Ruby will have to choose sides, and she has already made one enemy at school - Doris Spinks. Will Ruby do what she believes is right? An ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Short excerpt: Without doubt she was the worst of the seven probably because she was the cleverest. Her brilliant inventive powers plunged them all into ceaseless scrapes.
Sexual Abuse of Children: Recognition Redress by Yorick Smaal
$39.95 AUD
Category: Health | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society
How can we seek justice and redress for the sexual abuse of children and better prevent the occurrence of such abuse? This work brings together the thoughts on this question advanced by leading scholars, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, from around the world. These thinkers - some also professi ...Show more
Six Minutes by Petronella McGovern
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Australian
An unputdownable thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty and Caroline Overington. If you were gripped watching The Cry, you'll be hooked on Six Minutes. Impossible to put down and full of twists and turns you won't see coming! I loved this fabulous debut novel.' Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Nine Pe ...Show more
Six Seconds: The Newcastle Earthquake (My Australian Story) by Alan Sunderland
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Education | Series: My Australian Story
I could hardly see. There was dust and smoke everywhere. I was falling, sliding down into a gap that had opened up between parts of the collapsed building. It was dark and silent. all I could hear was the sound of my own breathing, and my beating heart thumping in my ears. Then I heard the cry again: th ...Show more
Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History
Dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth and economic devastation: we feel we understand drought and yet there is more to this story. Australias long history of drought has goaded people to adapt and respond creatively. This book explores the way people have lived and worked with drought from the nineteenth ...Show more