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Cunning Crow by Gregg Dreise
$27.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian
Age range 5 to 12 Remember — beauty comes from within... Way back, before once-upon-a-time, there was the Dreamtime when all the birds were white. One of those white birds was a crow called Waan. One day a big storm came through and a magnificent rainbow appeared. When the birds passed through the rainb ...Show more
Cyclone Tracy (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: My Australian Story | Reading Level: 10-12
Darwin is almost completely destroyed; buildings, shops, houses, cars. Whole streets are gone, even the signposts. And now the people are going. Evacuations started today. Ryan just wants to hang out with his mates, go fishing and avoid being hassled by his dad, the super-strict deputy principal. But tr ...Show more
Don't Take Your Love to Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Australian Writing Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ruby Langford Ginibi's bestselling first book is now back in print.With sales of over 30,000 copies since publication in 1988, Don't Take Your Love to Townis now a seminal work of Indigenous memoir. It has been set for HSC over a number of years and is one of the most important Indigenous life stories t ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
Ella Kazoo Will Not Brush Her Hair (PB) by Lee Fox
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Lothian Australian Favou Ser.
'Ella Kazoo will not brush her hair. She hides in the cupboard and under the stair, she roars at her mum like a big growly bear, she whines and she moans and she howls in despair, but Ella Kazoo will not brush her hair!' Ella Kazoo will do anything to avoid having her hair brushed. Her poor mother is be ...Show more
Escape from Cockatoo Island (My Australian Story) by Yvette Poshoglian
$16.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: My Australian Story
I am in the middle of Sydney Harbour, stuck on this place the masters call Cockatoo Island...I am here because I am an orphan, but I cannot help feeling like I have been sent here for doing something wrong. It is 1879 and life in the Biloela Industrial School is tough for eleven-year-old Olivia Markham. ...Show more
Fast Pasta by -
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: "Australian Women's Weekly"
While the pasta's cooking you prepare a simple sauce and before you know it, dinner's on the table. All the recipes in this book can be made in less than 35 minutes. FAST PASTA includes a guide to pasta types and tells you which pastas and sauces make the perfect match. There are recipes for extremely s ...Show more
Fast Vegies by AWW
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: "Australian Women's Weekly"
Everyone knows that they should eat more vegetables uabut most people only know one or two ways to cook them, and after a while steamed cabbage loses its appeal. This book is a celebration of vegetables and isn't just for vegetarians with more than 180 recipes for vegetables cooked in all sorts of ways: ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
$34.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories by Elizabeth Jolley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
During her lifetime, Elizabeth Jolley established a formidable international reputation for her unique combination of unsentimental realism and original humour. Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories brings together two highly acclaimed collections of Jolley's short fiction in a new edition. Five Acre Virgi ...Show more
From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820-2012 by Bruce Bennett
$39.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Literary Studies
Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender explore the lives and creative work of Australia's many expatriate writers living and working in Britain since the early nineteenth century. They contest the notion of Australia as an 'import culture' and show Australians exporting literary talent to Britain and further afi ...Show more
Gardens on the Edge: A Journey Through Australian Landscapes by Christine Reid
$59.99 AUD
Category: Gardening | Series: Australian Landscapes | Reading Level: 6 Gardening
18 stunning Australian gardens, each bordering a natural 'frontier', including rainforest, river, desert, bushland, saltbush plains, volcanic lake, mountain ranges and the ocean's edge This lavishly photographed book, written and curated by internationally respected gardening author Christine Reid and ...Show more