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By: Gordon McLauchlan
ISBN: 9781869539283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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A great collection of tales which reveal many aspects of rural life in New Zealand, from well-known master of storytelling Gordon McLauchlan. Includes 48 fascinating yarns, from rabbits, to swaggers, to kauri gum, shearers and land girls.
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By: Bill Conroy
ISBN: 9780992247591
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Wairarapa Archive
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(Paperback)
By: A B Facey
ISBN: 9781925591408
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Fremantle Press
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Albert Facey's story is the story of Australia. A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century - the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.
(Hardback)
By: A B Facey
ISBN: 9781925591385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Fremantle Press
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By: Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9781911547099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 2018
Publisher: Daunt Books
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In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid candidly appraises where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonisation and tourism.
(Paperback)
By: Jim Haynes
ISBN: 9781760632410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising
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By: Carol Baxter
ISBN: 9781742372877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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He was the gentleman bushranger . she was the woman who rode with him. Full of action and drama, this is the richly detailed and unputdownable true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady.
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By: Jay Ludowyke
ISBN: 9780733640674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The dramatic and fascinating story of RMS CARPATHIA: rescue ship to RMS TITANIC; sunk by a German U-boat in WWI; and lost in ocean depths until located by an intrepid dive team nearly 100 years later
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By: Graham Seal
ISBN: 9781760290436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends and colourful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.
(Paperback)
By: Kate Morgan
ISBN: 9780008407346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: Carol Mavor
ISBN: 9781789149500
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The sadness, as well as the joy, of unexpected discoveries.
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By: Anna Funder
ISBN: 9781761343681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Anna Funder
ISBN: 9780143792529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Len Beadell
ISBN: 9781864367836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Maya Ward
ISBN: 9781921924286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Florence de Changy
ISBN: 9780008381554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does This is a splendid book and highly recommended. Daily Mail
A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory.
(Paperback)
By: Gideon Haigh
ISBN: 9781761108266
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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(Hardback)
By: Marco Polo
ISBN: 9780141198774
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Marco Polo voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. This translation gives an account of his travels and offers a glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; and wild beasts of faraway.
(Paperback)
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
ISBN: 9780008295707
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The shocking, never-before-told story of Americas thalidomide victims
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By: Hugh Edwards
ISBN: 9780732294502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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This is a romantic story of shipwreck hunting, with pieces-of-eight, Dutch ducatons, German talers, Burgundian crowns, and Spanish silver dollars lost and recovered from the sea floor. Edwards has been recognised as the the 'primary finder' of the wreck of the Batavia, upon which his best-selling book Island of Angry Ghosts is based upon.
(Paperback)
By: Jim Leavesley
ISBN: 9781742373300
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A fascinating collection of historical curiosities - doctors who achieved fame or notoriety for reasons other than their medical prowess.
(Paperback)
By: Jim Haynes
ISBN: 9781742371252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A dazzling collection of writing about the sea - from first-hand accounts of ocean voyages to stories by Banjo Paterson and Mark Twain - from Australia's most successful Australiana author.
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By: Kay Saunders
ISBN: 9780733332609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Paperback)
By: Owen Gingerich
ISBN: 9781784757601
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Part biography of a book and a man, part bibliographic and bibliophilic quest, Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read is an utterly captivating piece of writing, a testament to the power both of books and the love of books.
