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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
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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