ASBESTOS HOUSE by HAIGH GIDEON
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century- asbestos. Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie built itself ...Show more
Speaking from the Heart by Sally Morgan
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Eighteen Aboriginal Australians from across the country each share a powerful story which is central to their own lives, and or to their family or community.
Ned Kelly: A Short Life by Ian Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Every nation has a lovable bandit/rebel/folk hero in the mould of Robin Hood and Rob Roy. But Ned Kelly is an uncomfortable hero - he killed policemen, robbed banks, stole horses from squatters...But he became a champion of the rural underclass and an enemy of arrogant officialdom. Ned Kelly was of Iris ...Show more
The Supply Party: Ludwig Becker on the Burke and Wills Expedition by Martin Edmond
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Burke and Wills expedition of 1860 was one of the best equipped expeditions of the Victorian era but it was doomed to a terrible fate. Much has been written about the leaders of this expedition but what do we know of other members of the party? In The Supply Party, Edmond takes the reader on a physi ...Show more
Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth About a Wartime Massacre by Georgina Banks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt 'Bud', killed in the Second World War.Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter plane ...Show more