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The Bridge
Author: Peter Lalor; Sue Lalor (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781741142280

The definitive story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's most amazing engineering feats - a structure that has become a national icon.... [view more]

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Dreamtime Heritage
Author: Ainslie Roberts (painting); Melva Jean Roberts (text)
ISBN: 9780727000460

The original concept of these beautifully illustrated books was developed by an association between Ainslie Roberts and Charles Mountford. Mr Roberts had made extensive painting tours through remote... [view more]

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Tracy
Author: Gary McKay
ISBN: 9781865085586

Thirty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Australia woke up to the news that Darwin had been devastated by Cyclone Tracy. Only hours before, the town of Darwin was winding down for the holiday season.... [view more]

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Dr Karl's Collection of Great Australian Facts and Firsts
Author: Karl Kruszelnicki
ISBN: 9780207198601

In the Great Australian Facts & Firsts series Dr Karl gives us quirky, factual details about nature, science and people. Dr Karl rampages on, doing what he does best writing about scientific... [view more]

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Colonial Ladies
Author: Maggie Weidenhofer (compiler and editor)
ISBN: 9780859022583

The 'Colonial Ladies' faced an uncertain and often lonely life in a scarcely known land, Australia, far from the 'seat of happiness and delight', England. Most had the advantage of education and... [view more]

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The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories
Author: Henry Lawson, John Barnes
ISBN: 9780140092158

Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed. In this selection John Barnes reveals Lawson as a writer whose delightful, humorous, wry, moving and above all,... [view more]

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Mercy From Generation To Generation
Author: Patricia Wilks
ISBN: 9780949807663

...is an affectionate look back at what life was like for girls in Our Lady of Mercy College Parramatta over the last 100 years. It deals very largely in the recollections and reminiscences of the... [view more]

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Killen Inside Australian Politics
Author: James Killen
ISBN: 9780454006520

When Sir James Killen left the Australian Parliament in 1983 he had served in it for twenty-eight years and with eight Prime Minister - from Menzies to Hawke. KILLEN is the story of those years,... [view more]

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Bronwyn Bishop
Author: David Leser
ISBN: 9781875847020

In this compelling, unauthorised biography, David Leser, a journalist with an enviable reputation for finding the person behind the polished facade, tells us about the real Bronwyn Bishop.... [view more]

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From Sydney Cove to Duntroon
Author: Hugh Falkus; Joan Kerr
ISBN: 9780575030398

This unique volume of 19th-century Australiana is based on the legacy of two remarkable women, both married into the Campbell family. Sophia is Australia's earliest known woman artist and her... [view more]

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Dark Victory
Author: David Marr; Marian Wilkinson
ISBN: 1865089397

The genre-breaking inside account of the Tampa , Australia's refugee crisis and the politcal campaigning that powered it, from two of the country's pre-eminent investigative journalists.... [view more]

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Underbelly: The Gangland War
Author: John Silvester; Andrew Rule
ISBN: 9780977544066

An interesting approach; contrasting the reality with the TV series... They called Carl Williams 'The Truth' but the truth was he was just a fat kid with a pill press and a taste for fast food,... [view more]

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A Pasty-Faced Nothing
Author: Mike Munro, Col Allan (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781740512114

Autobiographical account of Australian journalist and television host Mike Munro. Describes his difficult childhood characterised by poverty and abuse, follows his path to establishing a successful... [view more]

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Yates Garden Guide
Author: Yates
ISBN: 9780207200748

This fully updated and revised forty-second edition provides reliable, practical advice on all aspects of gardening: designing, planning, preparing and maintaining your garden; organic gardening;... [view more]

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Writing the Colonial Adventure
Author: Robert Dixon
ISBN: 9780521481908

This book is an exploration of popular late nineteenth-century texts that show Australia - along with Africa, India and the Pacific Islands - to be a preferred site of imperial adventure. Focusing on... [view more]

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The Encyclopedia of Australian Murders
Author: Jim Main
ISBN: 9781920910662

The elderly mans body had been horribly mutilated, shocking even the most hardened police officers. It is just one case presented in this encyclopaedia of Australian murder, along with the case of... [view more]

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Death in Paradise
Author: Derryn Hinch
ISBN: 9780207161650

Once it would have seemed preposterous that a movie sex symbol coulkd be targetted for death. Until July 10 1985 it would have seemed preposterous that a peace ship would be destroyed in the harbour... [view more]

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The Road from Coorain
Author: Jill Ker Conway
ISBN: 9780679724360

'A small masterpiece of scene, memory and very stylish English. I've been several times to Australia; this book was the most rewarding journey of all' John Kenneth Galbraith 'This... [view more]

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Tangara : let us set off again
Author: Nan Chauncy
ISBN: 0001000001305

Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. 1970 reprint, Oxford University Press London. Hardcover: maroon cloth, fine. Dust Jacket: present, fine. Endpapers: intact, inscription to front loose paper and... [view more]

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A Human Pattern
Author: Judith Wright
ISBN: 9781875892655

Judith Wright's own definitive selection of her poetry, covering the best and most memorable of her remarkable oeuvre. From the elegant and moving precision of the first collection, The Moving Image... [view more]

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