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The Suicide Bride: A Mystery of Tragedy and Family Secrets in Edwardian Sydney by Tanya Bretherton
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of the acclaimed THE SUITCASE BABY - shortlisted for the Ned Kelly and Nib awards - comes the chilling story of a charlatan, a murder-suicide, and a family tree so twisted that it sprouts monsters. Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: is it nature or is it nurture? W ...Show more
The Suitcase Baby by Tanya Bretherton
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser.
True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of a great crime novel. In the early hours of Saturday morning, 17 November 1923, a suitcase was found washed up on the shore of a small beach in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. What it contained - and why - would p ...Show more
The Suitcase Baby: The heartbreaking true story of a shocking crime in 1920s Sydney by Tanya Bretherton
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Ned Kelly Award, Danger Prize and Waverley Library NIB Sydney, 1923 a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals its grisly contents - and from there, an extraordinary story unfolds. True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pac ...Show more
The Talking Cure: Normal people, their hidden struggles and the life-changing power of therapy by Gillian Straker, Jacqui Winship
32.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.' Carl Jung The essence of successful therapy is the relationship between the therapist and the patient, a dance of growing trust and understanding. It is an intimate, messy, often surprising and sometimes c ...Show more
The Tall Man - Penguin Australian Classics by Chloe Hooper
19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest ...Show more
The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Classics
The year 1788: the very beginning of European settlement. These were times of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all, they were times of conflict between the Aborigines and the white settlers. Eleanor Dark brings alive those bitter years with moments of tenderness and conciliation amid the brutality an ...Show more
The Tram to Bondi Beach 40th Anniversary Edition by Libby Hathorn
24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A story of a young boy's adventures working as a paperboy on the busy trams, travelling to Bondi Beach. Keiran wants nothing more than to be a paperboy on the busy trams, to Bondi Beach. What he discovers along the way, through daring and friendship, is a deep love of the trams themselves. Rattle and hu ...Show more
There Was an Old Sailor by Claire Saxby
16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian
A delightful new twist on an old tale! There was an old sailor who swallowed a krill. I don't know why he swallowed the krill - it'll make him ill ... A nautical take on a much-loved rhyme.
Thriving on Plants: by Cherie Tu by Cherie Tu
34.99 AUD
Category: Food | Series: AUSTRALIAN WOMENS WEEKLY
Since becoming vegan on 20 January 2014, Cherie Tu has made it her mission to help inspire others through cooking.Whether you're looking to incorporate more vegies in your diet or simply curious about plant-based foods, Thriving On Plants allows you to learn, create and have fun in the kitchen. This boo ...Show more
Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture by Katherine Wilson
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
At a time when the labour-market is failing as a source of security and identity for many, domestic tinkering is emerging as a legitimate occupation in a way we have not seen since pre-industrial times. In Australia, practices of repair, invention, building, improvising and crafting, that take place in ...Show more
Tom the Outback Mailman by Kristin Weidenbach
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Lothian Australian Favourites
Tom Kruse was a real Australian hero. He delivered the mail to outback stations and towns all along the Birdsville Track. It was a tough job, but Tom was even tougher, making sure that the mail got through no matter what. Based on her bestselling book, MAILMAN OF THE BIRDSVILLE TRACK, Kristin Weidenbach ...Show more
Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities by Graeme Davison; Renate Howe; David Nichols
34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Australian Studies
In the 1960s and 70s, Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued their suburbs - places like Balmain, Battery Point, Carlton, Indooropilly, North Adelaide, or Subiaco - resisted large-scale development projects for freeways, ...Show more