Collection: Nonfiction

Historian, David Potts has discovered that the myth of the Great Depression, as a time of great suffering, is often untrue or exaggerated. This book could dramatically overturn how we recollect the Great Depression in Australia

Frontiers are areas that have not been fully explored. there are very few frontiers left on Earth. However, beyond Earth there is a frontier bigger than we can possibly imagine - space.

Governor-General Sir John Kerr's dismissal of the elected Whitlam Government in 1975, more or less at the behest of the Liberal-Country Party Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, was among the most momentous events in Australian political history

A collection of over 100 photographs with oral stories, this book captues the beauty, humour, sadness and friendship of a traditional Aboriginal community grappling with the demand of Western culture. A photographic record of the Mardu people of WA

For much of the country's history wool has been the paramount export. Expertise in breeding, tending, and shearing sheep and handling the wool-clip has been dearly bought. The most obvious and unmistakable legacy of the sheep is the wool shed.

A story of courage, valour and dogged determination, The Kamikaze Hunters is a gripping account of how a few brave young men helped to ensure lasting peace.

A thematic collection of 250 illustrations taken from the Archives of the Illustrated London News. A valuable source for historians with many published for the first time in 90 years. Together they are a unique, bittersweet portrayal of the Great War