Banks
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.25
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one…
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1. The Son
By: Philipp Meyer
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of pow… read more
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- audiobook
2. The First Fleet
By: Rob Mundle
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first fleet - the creation of a nation. Bestselling Maritme Biographer, Rob Mundle, is back on … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- australia
3. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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4. Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)
By: David Hunt
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2014 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Nonfiction Girt. No word… read more
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5. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- history
- british literature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
6. True History of the Kelly Gang
By: Peter Carey
3.87
Format: 334 pages,
"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more
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7. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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- australia
- audiobook
8. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
9. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
By: Douglas Murray
4.21
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
11. The Angry Women's Choir
By: Meg Bignell
4.07
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more
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- australia
- audiobook
12. The Accident
By: Fiona Lowe
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more
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- audiobook
13. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- australia
- audiobook
14. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- audiobook
15. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
By: Chloe Hooper
4.05
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in V… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
16. Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World
By: Hannah Lewis
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Green, Restorative Practices /Sustainability "Hannah Lewis de… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
17. How to be Remembered
By: Michael Thompson
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without t… read more
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- audiobook
18. Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies
By: Kitty Flanagan
3.98
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
Once my fingers were fully cheezelled, I moved up to the cocktail Frankfurt bowl and started poking… read more
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- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
"I am almost ashamed to admit how much I love getting a laugh-for me, it is still the ultimate high. Admittedly, I don't take a lot of drugs."-Kitty Flanagan, Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies
19. Bennelong and Phillip
By: Kate Fullagar
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australia… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- australia
20. Saga Land
By: Richard Fidler
4.03
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friends… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
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- australia
- audiobook
21. Big Mouth: a memoir
By: Matt Preston
3.61
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A rock'n'roll memoir of life, death and growing up with the occasional scandal. For a man who has b… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
22. James Cook: The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World
By: Peter FitzSimons
4.18
Format: 654 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythi… read more
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- biography
- british literature
- biography memoir
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- australia
- audiobook
23. The Naturalist of Amsterdam
By: Melissa Ashley
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Amsterdam, at the turn of the 18th century. For as long as she can remember, Dorothea Graff has liv… read more
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- audiobook
24. Wild Things: How We Learn To Read and What Can Happen If We Don't
By: Sally Rippin
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life. When Sally Rippin discovered her c… read more
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25. Banks
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.25
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one… read more
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- history
- biography
- unfinished
- british literature
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- australia
- nature
- audiobook
26. Three Sheets to the Wind
By: Adam Courtenay
4.13
Format: 320 pages, ebook
How a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 600 miles to save 7000 gallons of rum By the bestsell… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself
By: Nick Bryant
4.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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28. Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas
By: Harrison Christian
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. A Shorter History of Australia
By: Geoffrey Blainey
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- australia
- audiobook
"The history of Australia, black or white, is not only the struggle between peoples but the struggle between nature and people. Nature tamed many of the settlers, sometimes defeating them, but people …"-Geoffrey Blainey, A Shorter History of Australia
"There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the other. The Soviet Union, born in 1917 and influenced …"-Geoffrey Blainey, A Shorter History of Australia
30. The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country
By: Adam Courtenay
4.27
Format: 320 pages, ebook
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buc… read more
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- history
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31. Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage
By: Geoffrey Blainey
4.22
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set sail on a small British naval vessel, the boldly named … read more
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- history
- biography
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- australia
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"The Latin language is no longer read widely, and so we have lost sight of the old distinction between the real Terra Australis or Australia on the one hand, and the unknown continent called Terra Aus…"-Geoffrey Blainey, Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage
"Captain James Cook himself remains a hero. One of the most remarkable voyagers in the long history of the seas, he deserves far more praise than blame. Contrary to the common belief, he admired the A…"-Geoffrey Blainey, Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage
