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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
    The New Rulers of the World - by John Pilger

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784782115 | ISBN 10: 1784782114

    Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and wealth of states and corporations.   John Pilger is one of the world’s renowned investigative jour ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Aboriginal Art Colouring Book by Penny Brown
    The Aboriginal Art Colouring Book - by Penny Brown

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782213512 | ISBN 10: 1782213511

    Take a much deserved break from the stresses of modern day life with a hobby that is nostalgic, creative and therapeutic all at the same time.   The Aboriginal Art Colouring Book provides beautiful designs inspired by Aboriginal art to colour ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Beech: The Rainforest Years by Germaine Greer
    White Beech: The Rainforest Years - by Germaine Greer

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408846735 | ISBN 10: 140884673x

    One bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, clearing and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Luck of the Irish by Babette Smith
    The Luck of the Irish - by Babette Smith

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781742378121 | ISBN 10: 1742378129

    The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the New South Wales coast in 1835. Miraculously all survived, guided to safety by ... more

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  • Cover image of book Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One
    Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land - by Sven Lindqvist

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847085214 | ISBN 10: 1847085210

    In Terra Nullius, Sven Lindqvist travels 7,000 miles through Australia, lyrically describing its landscape, flora and fauna, while telling the history of the country, and revealing the shocking treatment of the Aboriginal peoples.�Lindqvist's title ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
    Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island - by Chloe Hooper

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099520764 | ISBN 10: 0099520761

    When Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old member of the Aboriginal community of Palm Island, was arrested for swearing at a white police officer, he was dead within forty-five minutes of being locked up. The police claimed he’d tripped on a step, but the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Tom Keneally
    The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia - by Tom Keneally

    £10.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099483748 | ISBN 10: 0099483742

    In late-18th-century Britain, people were hanged for petty offences, yet crime was rife. The gaols were bursting and over-flow prisoners were kept in notorious 'hulks': rotting old ships moored offshore. Out of this situation was born the 'solution' ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Everlasting Silence: The Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914 by Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson
    This Everlasting Silence: The Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914 - by Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson

    £21.95   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780522851915 | ISBN 10: 0522851916

    Dark-eyed beauty, Paquita Delprat and dashing explorer Douglas Mawson became engaged on the eve of his 1911 Antarctic expedition. Mawson was to be away for fifteen months, and their life together would begin after this long separation. But the trek w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker
    Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent - by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker

    £7.95   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780500301142 | ISBN 10: 050030114x

    Here is a lively, vibrantly illustrated social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. The book explores the spiritual beliefs and Dreamings of the Indigenous people, their complex social structures ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mutant Message Down Under: A Woman
    Mutant Message Down Under: A Woman's Journey into Dreamtime Australia - by Marlo Morgan

    £8.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9781855384842 | ISBN 10: 1855384841

    Mutant Message Down Under is the gripping fictional account of the spiritual odyssey of an American woman in Australia. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals to accompany them on a walkabout through the outback, she makes a four month lon ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Secret Country by John Pilger
    A Secret Country - by John Pilger

    £12.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780099152316 | ISBN 10: 0099152312

    Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of h ... more

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