HISTORY

Using war diaries, combat reports, and other official correspondence and records, this fast-paced narrative reconstructs in detail the prolonged ai...

AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY COMMEMORATING THE DARWIN AIR RAIDS It remains the most authoritative work on Darwin’s air war, and has been compiled from a ...

  For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now ...

A crocodile pulls a sleeping man into the river by one leg. Another breaks the neck of a swimming policeman. An out-of-luck miner drowns himself in...

  The last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia's Top End settlement of Palmerston. The major industries of minin...

THIS IS A PRINT ON DEMAND TITLE - 6-8 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY Much of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work as an evolutionary biologist stemmed from his...

  In 1942 the air defence of the northern Australian frontier town of Darwin was operated by airmen from the United States. Flying P-40E Warhawks,...

This is a true story of greed, courage, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and ...

Central Australia has, with reason, been seen as the last frontier of Australia and, politically, the forgotten country. This book distils the conc...

The Iwaidja woman, her belly opened by a bayonet, slipped below the dark water. Her 6-year-old daughter, Reveral, watched in terror. Her baby siste...

FROM HOSPITAL TO UNIVERSITY A NORTHERN TERRITORY NURSING STORY

  Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past f...

SHORTLISTED, Baillie Gifford Prize, United Kingdom, 2025 Helen Garner's acclaimed three volumes of diaries are collected here in one sumptuous book...

Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s. Notorious for the violence of his pat...

Australia's contribution to Indonesia's independence struggle is broadly well-known and this book explores an important part of the story: Australi...

  A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier warsDavid Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal...

Dr Robyn Smith, the author, is a lecturer in colonial history at Charles Darwin University and a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle. ...

When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, he discovered the books of the pe...

Discover Majapahit, Indonesia’s greatest empire. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Majapahit kingdom reigned supreme in eastern Java, and its inf...

  This is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the people who made it. It paints a vibrant picture of the profound and anc...