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Strange Country : Travels in a Very Different Australia by Mark Dapin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
"This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failures. It is about heroes and legends, illusions, delusions and hope, and one or two men with shit for brains ...Show more
The Infinities by Mark Dapin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of his generation. With elegance, insight and wit, he has secured a devoted readership, and there can be few more eagerly anticipated literary events than a new John Banville novel – and, indeed, this is the first novel u ...Show more
The Nashos' War : Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
$39.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing by Mark Dapin (ed)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
From the cliffs of Gallipoli, to the jungles of Vietnam, to the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, Australia's short history has been punctuated by war. We define ourselves through our relationship to the battlefield - mateship, courage under fire, larrikinism - but few of us have been firsthand witnesses ...Show more