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Beersheba : A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War by Paul Daley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The Battle of Beersheba, a redeeming win for the Anzacs who lost at Gallipoli, has slipped through the cracks of Australia's historical consciousness. Why are Australians so much more content to commemorate a glorious defeat than we are to celebrate such a resounding, against-the-odds, victory? The suns ...Show more
Beersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War by Paul Daley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
It was a glorious triumph of arms for Australian forces, a romantic moment of dash and bravura that stood out in the tragedy of World War I. Yet it barely registers in Australia's national consciousness. In October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade took part in what is now known as ...Show more
Canberra by Paul Daley
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: City
An implicit sense of public service and 'otherness' has now come to permeate Canberra's identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance even, that the rest of Australia can hate us - but they'll never know how good it is to live here. Canberra is a city of orphans. People arrive temporaril ...Show more
Canberra : Updated Edition by Paul Daley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: City Ser.
An exploration of the city Australians love to hate, this book shows that there is more to the capital of Australia than politics, geometrically designed roads, and mid-century architecture. Canberra is a city of orphans: people arrive temporarily for work, but stay when they discover the unanticipated ...Show more
Challenge by Paul Daley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Fast-paced Australian political fiction, Challenge unfolds over three days in an atmosphere of treachery and deceit, amid a looming federal leadership challenge. Opposition leader Daniel Slattery is a cross between Mark Latham and Holden Caulfield. He's a former sporting hero from the wrong side of the ...Show more
Collingwood: A Love Story by Paul Daley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Every year when Collingwood plays Essendon in the AFL's annual Anzac Day match, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire carries an old horseshoe into the team's changing rooms and passes it around. The players examine it as he relates the great footy club story behind it. It's early in the twentieth century ...Show more
Jesustown by Paul Daley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This is a story-a great story-with all the tragedy and lies that is colonial Australia. Our circle of tragedy.' Thomas Mayor, author of Finding the Heart of the Nation'Poignant and powerful; the best book I've read this year.' Chris Hammer, author of Scrublands 'A challenging statement about the mythol ...Show more
On Patriotism by Paul Daley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
How has militarisation come to define Australian valour? Why has commemorating the centenary of World War I dominated our sense of patriotism?On Patriotismexplores what it really means to love and serve your country. Paul Daley contemplates ways to escape the cultural binds that tie us to Anzac, British ...Show more
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