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  • Notorious Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    The sensational lives and exploits of twenty audacious, brash and scandalous women, now in an all-new format.NOtORIOUS AUStRALIAN WOMEN celebrates the lives of some of Australia's most fearless, brash and scandalous women. there's tilly Devine, who went from streetwalker in London to wealthy Sydney madam and standover merchant; Mary Bryant, the highway robber and First Fleeter who escaped by ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Workers in Bondage

    The Origins and Bases of Unfree Labour in Queensland 1824–1916

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Series series Pacific Studies series
    Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in 1859. The study then focuses in on Queensland's Pacific Islander labor force, examining the reconstruction of the Queensland sugar industry after the withdrawal of Islander labor and describing ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Deadly Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Do women kill? Yes they do, but often for very different reasons from men ...Do women kill? Yes they do, but often for very different reasons from men ...Meet the women who have murdered - they've killed children, husbands, lovers, relatives and friends. they include the desperate, the poor, the abused, the sexually betrayed, and the downright callous. In some cases they were motivated by fear of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Indentured Labour in the British Empire, 1834-1920

    Edited by Kay Saunders ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire
    First published in 1984. Indentured labour migration in the nineteenth century intersects many of the most serious issues of our own time - racism, Third World poverty, and the arrogance of a great world powers. Indenture suggests lack of freedom and the exploitation of people formed into exile or misadventure. Coming as it did after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, in many ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Post-God Nation: How Religion Fell Off The Radar in Australia - and What Might be Done To Get It Back On

    by Roy Williams ...
    Why religion fell off the radar in Australia - and how it can get back onAt the time of Federation 98% of Australians identified themselves as Christians. Now only 8% say they regularly go to Church. What's changed? How did Australia become a post-Christian nation and what part did the Churches play in their own decline?Author Roy Williams (God, Actually, In God they trust?) has long been an ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Gurrumul

    by Robert Hillman ...
    This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation.From concert halls to recording studios and into Aboriginal heartlands, this is the story of Australia's Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation. Part road trip, part biography, Robert Hillman's account of Gurrumul's life and music ... Read more

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  • Great Australian Motorcycle Stories

    by John Bryant ...
    A bumper collection of yarns from motorcyclist enthusiasts around Australia.Get out on the highway and into this new collection of all-Australian motorcycle stories - the latest addition to ABC Books' bestselling Great Australian series. Edited by John Bryant and full of laconic Aussie humour, the collection features 40 stories that capture the freedom, fun, independence and adventure that comes ... Read more

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  • Paul Keating

    by David A Day ...
    In the tradition of his bestselling CURTIN and CHIFLEY, David Day's exhaustive biography of one of our most fascinating prime ministers.Paul Keating was one of the most significant political figures of the late twentieth century, firstly as treasurer for eight years and then Prime Minister for five years. Although he has spent all of his adult life in the public eye, Keating has eschewed the idea ... Read more

    Was $21.99 USD Now $16.99 USD

  • Monash: The fascinating life of the WWI soldier who shaped modern Australia from the bestselling award winning author of THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY and HUDSON FYSH

    by Grantlee Kieza ...
    Stunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest generalIt's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash attends a glittering banquet to dine with the King of England and the likes of Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling. Just four months earlier, the commander of the Australian Corps had been knighted in a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Australian Outback School Stories

    by Bill Marsh ...
    Series series Great Australian Stories
    Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback.If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school.this collection of more than sixty stories, gathered by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh in his travels across Australia, perfectly captures the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Through The Wall

    by Anna Bligh ...
    'This is a personal account of life at the top that will charm the general reader and the political tragic alike' Weekend AustralianAnna Bligh knows something about hard knocks and high walls. She was raised by a single mother in the working class Gold Coast, a young girl with a soon-to-be-estranged dad who struggled with alcoholism. She spent over 17 years in the rough and tumble of the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD