True Blue Guide to Australian Slang by Jenny Hunter
$12.99 AUD
Category: General
"The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang Australians are known for their informality and laid-back nature and this is reflected in the liberal use of colourful and amusing slang. The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang is an A-Z journey through the words, expressions and cultural idiosyncrasies that mak ...Show more
Wooleen Way: Renewing an Australian Resource by David Pollock
$35.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Australian Memoir
The outback conjures many images that the Australian psyche is built upon. Its grand vistas of sweeping dusty plains and its evocation of a tough pioneering spirit form the foundation of our prosperous culture. But these romantic visions often hide the stark environmental, economic, and social problems ...Show more
Great Australian Motorcycle Stories by John Bryant
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A bumper collection of yarns from motorcyclist enthusiasts around Australia. Get out on the highway and into this new collection of all-Australian motorcycle stories - the latest addition to ABC Books' bestselling Great Australian series. Edited by John Bryant and full of laconic Aussie humour, the coll ...Show more
See Australia and Die: Tales of Misadventure Down Under by Wendy Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"The great majority of holidaymakers in Australia get home in one piece, but a handful do suffer fatal or serious injuries. SEE AUSTRALIA AND DIE is about dangerous Australia. It's about relentless heat, creatures that can kill in minutes and the cruelty of nature. The carefully researched stories in th ...Show more
Australia's Funniest Yarns by Graham Seal
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Australians traditionally like their humour irreverent, crude and with very sharp teeth.Remember the one about the strange whining sound heard at airports as planes from Britain landed? This was the whingeing of Pommy migrants dissatisfied with what they found in Australia. Or how about the Citizenship ...Show more
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius by Peter FitzSimons
$41.99 AUD
Category: General
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Ma ...Show more
100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
From the ghostly black horse of Sutton Forest to the butcher of Adelaide Street, a haunted Brisbane lift to the chilling experiments carried out by Doctor Blood of the North Kapunda Hotel, Australia abounds in spooky stories that are all unnervingly based in fact and tied to real places to visit or avoi ...Show more