HISTORY
Due sept
1
Lies , Damned Lies Claire G . Coleman RRP $ 32.99
In Lies , Damned Lies author Claire G . Coleman takes the reader on a journey through the past , present and future of Australia . It offers an insight into the stark reality of the ongoing trauma of Australia ’ s violent colonisation .
French Connection Alexis Bergantz RRP $ 34.99
Alexis Bergantz provides a fascinating insight into how the idea of France influenced a new colony anxious to prove itself . Many Australians saw France as a more cosmopolitan – and decadent – alternative to a stodgy Victorian world order .
Fatal Contact Peter Dowling RRP $ 34.95
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788 . The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal health and life expectancy .
Tongerlongeter Henry Reynolds , Nicholas Clements RRP $ 34.99
Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history . In this book , Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements retrieve one of Australia ’ s greatest war heroes from historical obscurity .
THE Brilliant Boy Gideon Haigh RRP $ 39.99
Through Evatt ’ s decision in Chester v the Council of Waverley Municipality , Gideon Haigh rediscovers the most brilliant Australian of his day , a patriot with a vision of his country charting its own path and being its own example .
Ethel Rosenberg Anne Sebba RRP $ 32.99
This is the tragic story of Ethel Rosenberg , convicted for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and the first woman in America to be sent to her death for a crime other than murder .
Banks Grantlee Kieza RRP $ 34.99
By award-winning writer Grantlee Kieza , Banks is a rich and rollicking biography of one of the most colourful and intriguing characters in the history of exploration . Now in paperback .
Madhouse at the End of the EARTH Julian Sancton RRP $ 35.00
Madhouse at the End of the Earth is the harrowing , survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong , with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless , Antarctic winter .
Farmers or Huntergatherers ? Keryn Walshe , Peter Sutton RRP $ 34.99
Farmers or Huntergatherers ? is an authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production .
Due aug
31
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Lucy Adlington RRP $ 34.99
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz is a powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust , stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps .
Due sept
1
The Nazis Knew My Name
Magda Hellinger , Maya Lee , David Brewster RRP $ 32.99
This is an extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian-Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger , who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage , kindness and ingenuity .
Convict-Era Port Arthur David W . Cameron RRP $ 34.99
An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in Port Arthur , one of the most remote and feared convict locations in Australia .
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