Books
When I Was Little, Like You
Mary Malbunka
Format: Paperback
With evocative words and stunning pictures, Mary Malbunka tells her rich story of growing up in the early days of the Papunya settlement in central Australia, going bush with her family and learning about culture and life. A picture book for all ages.
Cocaine Blues
Kerry Greenwood
Format: Paperback
This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back.
Flying Too High
Kerry Greenwood
Format: Paperback
The second in the classic Phryne Fisher series from Kerry Greenwood, featuring the irresistible heroine Phryne. Whether she's foiling kidnappers, seducing beautiful young men or simply deciding what to wear for dinner, Phryne handles everything with her inimitable panache and flair.
Aboriginal Victorians
Richard Broome
Format: Paperback
The fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement, from one of Australia's leading historians.
Selling Sickness
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
Format: Paperback
A controversial and provocative look at the way pharmaceutical companies are creating and marketing illness.
Balanda
Mary Ellen Jordan
Intensely remembered and evocatively told, this is the story of the year Mary Ellen Jordan spent living and working in Maningrida, an Aboriginal community in Australia's Far North.
Noeline
Noeline Brown
Format: Paperback
A rollicking memoir from one of the legends of Australian showbiz.
Milli Jack and the Dancing Cat
Stephen Michael King
Format: Paperback
Paperback edition of a CBC Honour picture book - full of joyful colour and energy - about a timid girl who finds the courage to live life on her own terms, with the help of a travelling minstrel and his dancing cat.
Troubled Waters
Ruth Balint
Format: Paperback
The joint-winner of the 2003 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award - a lucid account of Australia's relationship with the Timor Sea, with Indonesian fishermen, with the relationship between those Island people and the Aboriginal communities of north-west Australia.
Keeping the Faith
Steve Strevens
Format: Paperback
A year in the life of a Collingwood footy fan with all celebratory highs and desperate lows of the 2004 season. A story for anybody who loves a football club.
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