BIG BLACK THING CHAPTER TWO by SWEATSHOP VARIOUS
$19.95 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
The Big Black Thing: Chapter. 2 is the second issue in a new series of prose and poetry by emerging and established writers from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds.
BIG BLACK THING CHAPTER ONE by SWEATSHOP VARIOUS
$19.95 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
The Big Black Thing: Chapter 1 is the first issue in a new series of poetry and prose from emerging and established writers of Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds.
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You ...Show more
The Theory of Flight by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment of her death, Imogen Zula Nyoni – Genie – was seen to fly away on a giant pair of silver wings ...' As Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie, lies in a coma at Mater Dei Hospital after ha ...Show more
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR'Impressive' The Times'Funny and pitch perfect' Sunday Express'I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration' Stephen Fry'These stories are a hit' Financial Times A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II vetera ...Show more
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffensen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian First Nations
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including what's called 'cool burns', could restore our country. Fire Country o ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian First Nations
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. F ...Show more
Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia's First Children's Author (Charlotte Waring Atkinson) by Kate Forsyth; Belinda Murrell
$34.95 AUD
Category: Teaching Tools & Resources
In Searching for Charlotte, Forsyth and Murrell tell Charlotte's story along with that of their own journey to discover her. In an intriguing account, the sisters join the reader in reacting to Charlotte's actions: wondering what could have motivated certain choices; admiring the strength of spirit that ...Show more
People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian First Nations
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pit ...Show more
Mammoth by Chris Flynn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a pterodactyl, a preh ...Show more