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Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians Since 1788 by Bruce Elder
$50.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Documenting some of the most significant, albeit painful, events in white Australia's past, this work was first published to coincide with the Bicentenary in 1988. This revised and updated edition includes new information on three key events in Aboriginal-European relations which have come to light sinc ...Show more
COLLECTORS COMPANION by ARNOLD KEN
$19.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Crown series
Collector's Companion
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A new edition of the story of comedian Tony Hawks' hitch-hiking journey around the circumference of Ireland, whilst carrying a fridge. Hawks was bet one hundred pounds that he could not complete the journey in one calendar month and this book charts his adventures and the people he encountered along the ...Show more
Weevils in the Flour: an Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia: 20th Anniversary Edition by Wendy Lowenstein
$42.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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A MAN ABOUT TOWN : THE LETTERS OF JAMES GRAHAM, VICTORIAN ENTREPRENEUR 1854-11864 by SALLY GRAHAM (ed)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Correspondence of Graham (James) 1819-1898 Victorian experience.
Blimey! - From Bohemia to Britpop by Matthew Collings
$77.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: good
A racy account of the London contemporary art scene by celebrated art critic Matthew Collings, giving a snapshot of the new Bohemia of the 90s interwoven with episodes from the author's own life in London. From Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, specially-commissioned photographs by documentary film-maker I ...Show more
Colin Colahan: A Portrait by Garry Kinnane
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Melbourne University Press Australian Lives S.
Colin Colahan was an Australian painter of outstanding ability and reputation who from the 1920s to the 1970s was remarkably productive. Colahan was one of the more brilliant pupils of the painter Max Meldrum. Identification with the unfashionable 'Meldrumites' is one explanation for Colahan's disappear ...Show more
Genius In The Family: An Intimate Memory of Jacqueline du Pre by Piers Du Pre
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Since her death in 1987, Jacqueline du Pre's brother and sister have long felt that her life story has never been properly told. This work gives an account of what happens when a prodigy is born into a family and how the driving force of an undeniable talent controlled not only her life but theirs.
The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey
$39.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The eye-witness accounts in this book have been chosen from hundreds of memoirs, letters and travel books, as well as newspapers. The time span reaches from ancient Greece - Thucydides' account of Athens stricken by plague - to 1986 as a Filipino crowd rampage through President Marcos's palace.
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