Australia

'A fascinating read' DAILY TELEGRAPH Aren't remote South Pacific islands supposed to be paradise? Perhaps,...

An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with...

When Captain Cook landed on Australian shores he came into contact with one of the...

Convincing Ground is a wide ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and...

Convicts, Capitalists and Corruption is a gripping narrative portraying personal stories of the leaders of...

From the award-winning author of The A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land comes an...

The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for...

An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to...

Consolidated Gold Fields was a major British mining house founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1892....

'Mowed them down wholesale!' With these words, a judge summed up the last great punitive...

The game of two-up has found its place at the heart of Australia's cultural history...

Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities...

Focusing on the victims, perpetrators and vicinities of crime, City of Shadows introduced the world...

For decades Helen Baldwin has been painting outback Australia and the Aboriginal people. Her travels...

In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul when it...

"...It is evident that there is a possibility that an innocent person has been convicted...

In 2018 Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most powerful Catholic, was found guilty of five sexual...

In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western...

A strong sense of 'otherness' defines Canberra to a point where there is a smugness,...

Tales of Victorian-era madness have imbued twenty-first century minds with images of inconvenient husbands and...

A classic in its own right, this personal and public memoir by one of Australia's...

There is more to Australia s bushranging history than Ned Kelly, Ben Hall and Captain...

There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy...

In this gorgeous and compact book, Samantha Martin - the 'Bush Tukka Woman' - shares...

For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal people have lived, and lived well, in Australia....

Bush Remedies is a readable and well-researched introduction to the huge variety of native plants...

: The Aboriginal Presence now comprises a foreword which examines recent research in Aboriginal studies,...