Australian Classic from DASHbooks

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. Fatty - The strife and times of Paul Vautin is the most explosive book about rugby league since King Wally. It is also the funniest; a rollicking saga which tracks the many highs (and lows) which punctuated a career of football's… Read more about this item

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. Alas, confesses Peter Luck, he's broken that rule many times. One of the country's top producers and presenters, Luck also writes the wise and witty '5th Column', which has graced the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald for more than five… Read more about this item

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. This heady mix of poignant, funny and revealing stories reflects the bitter-sweet sporting career of author Neil Marks. At 21, Marks was a sensation in the NSW Sheffield Shield team, scoring centuries in his first two games. At 22 his career… Read more about this item

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. The ABC Cricket Book: The First 60 Years is an engrossing collection of original writings, photos and advertisements culled from fifty-two editions of Australia's longest-running cricket publication, the ABC Cricket Book. Sir Charles Moses, expanding on the synthetic broadcasts… Read more about this item

In good condition - has markings from use - has no dust jacket - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. But for the promptings of a mate on the opal fields of Lightning Ridge, Australia's greatest story teller might well have remained one of the anonymous host of roving adventurers who have pioneered the little known… Read more about this item

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. Its Great Mate - Photographs of Australia.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. The Australian War Memorial's art collection numbers many thousands of works - sketches, paintings and sculpture - which represent the output of war artists both official and unofficial during a span of more than eighty years. Begun by C.E.W. Bean after… Read more about this item

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. AUSTRALIAN PUBS is the result of a "25,000-mile pub crawl" embarked upon by Melbourne columnist John Larkins and photographer Bruce Howard. Their journey began one warm Sunday afternoon at Silverton, near Broken Hill, and ended twelve months and many hangovers… Read more about this item

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. The last five years have been some of the most politically turbulent in Australian history. Patrick Cook, cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review and the National Times, has spent the last five years following the daily fortunes and misfortunes of the Fraser… Read more about this item

In very good condition - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. In 1915, on a rugged beach in south-western Turkey, young soldiers fighting for their countries forged what we now know as the Anzac spirit. The mateship, loyalty and courage they displayed in the trenches formed the bedrock of the Australian and New Zealand national characters. In… Read more about this item

In good condition - has tape on front cover - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. Uproarious tales of Australia's favourite fictional family, brilliantly illustrated in colour and black and white by Louis Silvestro. Dad, Dave, Sarah, Joe, Mother and all the rest of the irrepressible Rudd family stumble hilariously from… Read more about this item

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. Childrens book of Ned Kelly's life.

In good condition - has markings from use - no dustjacket - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. Based on Marcus Clarke's classic novel, originally published in 1870 as His Natural Life, the story tells of convict Rufus Dawes, who has been wrongfully accused of a crime and sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen's… Read more about this item

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. First published in 1962, this great book has sold continuously ever since. It has become an Australian classic. The subject of the book introduces it in his own words: My name is Waipuldanya, or Wadjiri-Wadjiri. (If they twist your tongue too much… Read more about this item

In good condition - has markings from use - dust jacket has rolling to edges and a tear on front cover in upper left corner - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. From 1824 when Sir Thomas Brisbane, Governor of NSW, sent a detachment of soldiers and convicts to found a new settlement on the Brisbane… Read more about this item

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. The aim of this anthology is to entertain and give pleasure to an audience as wide as the field from which the stories have been chosen. The earliest was published in 1894, the latest in 1986. The stories are presented… Read more about this item

In good condition - has markings from use - slight yellowing to some pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. Dorothea Mackellar's classic poem with paintings by Bill Beavan. Almost three-quarters of a century lie between the words of the colonial girl, Dorothea Mackellar, and the paintings of present-day Bill Beavan, yet both are fired by… Read more about this item

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. 'They start out confident enough. They lose their puff, fall into ravines, double back, drop their compasses, go bush mad, and that has been the way since the colony was framed, when a line was drawn, and everyone… Read more about this item

In good condition - has yellow aging spots on front and back pages - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. Sydney in 1841: a rough tumult of a town. An upper-class few clung to their illusions of privilege while the streets teemed with brawling chaotic life: the immigrant overflow of Britain's… Read more about this item

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. If you are new to Australia, it is possible that you cannot yet tell a ringer from a ring-in, a cockatoo from a galah, a blue from a bluey. When somebody says, 'Hullo, y'old bastard,' do you take offence? If on… Read more about this item