Penguin Random House Australia: 1771 books
by David Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and...
by Will Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Retrace Australia's role in the First World War from the trenches of Somme Mud to the wider war on the Western Front.
Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates,...
Australia's Most Murderous Prison
Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
BEHIND THE WALLS OF GOULBURN JAIL
An unprecedented spate of murders in the 1990s – seven in just three years – earned Goulburn Jail the ominous name of ‘The Killing Fields’. Inmates who were sentenced or transferred to the 130-year-old towering sandstone menace declared they had been...
The Fair and the Foul
Inside Our Sporting Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
If anyone is qualified to talk about sport in Australia, it's David Hill. In this book, with the benefit of his years of personal experience both playing and working in the sporting world, he vividly narrates its rise in Australia since the end of the nineteenth century, from the first cricket tour...
by Fiona Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
A beautiful and comprehensive book on horses.
From Phar Lap to Makybe Diva, Garryowen to Picasso, and Our Solo to Peppermint Grove, Australians adore their horses. Be it a pony club mount, an Australian Stock Horse descendant of the mighty Waler or a Snowy Mountains brumby, such is our love...
Not Your Average Nurse
From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it's never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks as a student nurse at London's King's College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. It's sink or swim.
In a...
by David Astle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Are you sick of the same old tourist spots like the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House? Do you own too many happy snaps of koalas and kangaroos? Offbeat Australia is the guide to the weird and wonderful attractions that most tourists miss.Explore the odd places that make Australia truly offbeat....
Denny Day
The Life and Times of Australia's Greatest Lawman – the Forgotten Hero of the Myall Creek Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Captain Edward Denny Day - the only law 'from the Big River to the sea' - was Australia's greatest lawman, yet few have heard of him. This is his story.
Once there was a wilderness: Australia's frontier, a dangerous and unforgiving place where outlaws ruled the roads and killers were hailed...
by Lisa Gibbs, Bernadette Hellard
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
A junior fiction series written in partnership with Netball Australia
Will Maia ever fit in with the Gems?
Maia's just moved to Australia from New Zealand and is finding it tough. She misses her cousins, her netball team and the way everything used to be so familiar. Even her school...
Aliens, Ghosts and Vanishings
Strange and Possibly True Australian Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Have you heard the most bizarre tales from around Australia?
Did a UFO drag a family's car off the road in the middle of the outback? How did rocks rain from the sky in WA? And what became of the prime minister who went into the surf and was never seen again?
Explore the strangest tales,...
Fifteen Young Men
Australia's Untold Football Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Fifteen Young Men is the true story of a doomed adventure.
Few people know an Australian football team drowned in 1892.
Yet the boat disaster still ranks alongside the Manchester United plane crash (1958) as one of the world's greatest sporting tragedies. Lost were fifteen men and boys...
by Debi Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Gina Rinehart is the richest woman in the world - but at what cost?
From an early age Gina Rinehart knew she was heir to one of Australia's largest fortunes. Her father, Lang Hancock, loved her dearly and groomed her to take over the company. Then along came Rose, the Filipina housekeeper Lang...
by Heath Ducker, Samantha Trenoweth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
'It is unusual to read a story that is so confrontingly real, and yet so profoundly uplifting' Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Heath Ducker grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. He couldn't even see the tracks from where he lived, in dilapidated government housing, with shattered windows and holes...
Mistress
The True Stories of Mistresses and their Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Between the sheets with Australia's powerful, rich and famous
Since the First Fleet landed, Australian history has been littered with mistresses. Slide between the covers of this book to find a cheaters' list of those women, and a star-studded hall of infamy of Australia's rich and powerful...