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The Getting of Wisdom - Penguin Australian Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
When Laura Rambotham arrives at an exclusive Melbourne girls school from her country home, she is ridiculed by the other pupils for her differences - her name, her unusual clothes and, especially, for her 'unpardonable sin': her exceptional musical ability. Laura endures ostracism and misery as she trie ...Show more
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: Australian History Ser.
Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other?In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a m ...Show more
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: Australian History
In this superbly researched book Bain Attwood eschews the generalisations of national and colonial history to provide a finely grained local history of the Djadja Wurrung people of Central Victoria. Insisting on the importance of grappling with a history that involved a relationship between the people o ...Show more
The Governors 1788-1855 by Kenneth Muir
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Timelines Ser.
The story of how ten men created a country from a colony of convicts and free settlers, how they shaped our legal system and set the basis for our culture and society. Includes index, timelines and links to more detail on a dedicated website. Ages 10-14.
The Harp In The South - Penguin Australian Classics by Ruth Park
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is scarce and life is not easy. Crammed together within the thin walls of Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street are the Darcy family: Mumma, loving and softhearted; Hughie, her drunken husband; pipe-smoking Grandma; ...Show more
The Hindenburg Line Campaign 1918 (#26 Australian Army Campaigns) by Adam Rankin
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
In the last devastating months of the First World War, the British Fourth Army pursued the Germans to their final defensive position - the Hindenburg Line, a formidable series of defensive positions studded with concrete dugouts and thickly set barbed wire. The Hindenburg Line 1918 describes the two fie ...Show more
The Hunt for Ned Kelly (My Australian Story) by Sophie Masson
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
North-east Victoria, 1879. Jamie Ross and his older sister Ellen are alone in the world after the death of their father. Determined to make their fortune, they head to Beechworth and straight into the midst of the search for Ned Kelly, the most notorious bushranger of all time. Jamie is fascinated by Ne ...Show more
The Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Australia by Joseph Harding
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Society
This is the history of India since before written records, through to being the worlds largest democracy today. It shows how empires rose and fell and how India became the centrepiece of British colonialism and the legacy that has left. Also covers Australias relationship with India.
The Killing Streets: Uncovering Australia's First Serial Murderer by Tanya Bretherton
Category: No Category | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
From the acclaimed author of The Suitcase Baby and The Suicide Bride, the story of a series of horrific murders that began in 1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two decades. In December 1932, as the Depression tightened its grip, the body of a woman was found in Queens Park, Sydn ...Show more
The Kokoda Campaign 1942: Myth and Reality by Peter Williams
Category: History | Series: Australian Army History Series
The fighting on the Kokoda Track in World War II is second only to Gallipoli in the Australian national consciousness. The Kokoda campaign of 1942 has taken on mythical status in Australian military history. According to the legend, Australian soldiers were vastly outnumbered by the Japanese, who suffer ...Show more
The Life of Such Is Life - A Cultural History of an Australian Classic by Roger Osborne
Category: No Category | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy's Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphy's handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controv ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney Bulletin' in 1892 when they decided to have a duel of poetry. The idea was to increase the number of poems they could sell to the paper. It began in fun but later became bitter. Paterson wrote many poems and stories about his travels in the Out ...Show more