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Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers

By Peter FitzSimons

Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs

By Seth Alexander Thevoz

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's Greatest Explorer

By Peter FitzSimons

Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys

By Alexander Maitland

A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa

By Emma Christopher (Australian Research Council Fellow, University of Sydney)

The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture

By Richard Hoggart

The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire

By Giordano Nanni

Nine Lives: Air Commodore Alan Deere

By Alan Deere, Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding

Australia

By Leigh Ann Cobb

Lardil: Keepers of the Dream Time

To be Heirs Forever

By Mary Durack

A Short History of Australia

By Manning Clark

England Versus Australia: Pictorial History of Every Test Match Since 1877

By David Frith

"Endeavour": The Story of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage

By Peter Aughton

The Singing Line

By Alice Thomson

Australian Aborigines: Spirits of Arnhem Land

By Penny Tweedie

Australia

By Susan Pepper

The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier

By Tim Flannery

The Fatal Shore: History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

By Robert Hughes

Menzies and Churchill at War: A Controversial New Account of the 1941 Struggle for Power

By David Day

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

By Eddie Jaku

An Australian Pioneer

By Nigel, Hunter

Trauma Trails: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia

By Judy Atkinson

The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of Australian History

By Jan Bassett

Campfires at the Cross: An Account of the Bunting Dale Aboriginal Mission 1839-1851

By Heather Le Griffon

Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture

By D. Perry, C. Sederholm

Ranging Shots: New Directions in Australian Military History

By Carl Bridge

Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War: Searching for Dorothy Lamour

By S. Brawley, C. Dixon

The Political Economy of Robert Lowe

By J. Maloney

1968: The Year that Rocked the World

By Mark Kurlansky