The Text Publishing Company: 414 books
by Mark Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Finn, Kas and Willow have survived the winter of storms. Severe winds and cold have kept the Wilders at bay. Now that spring has come, everything has changed. They’re being hunted again, and they won’t be safe while Ramage wants their blood.
But Finn and Kas made a promise to Rose—to find her...
Where is Here?
350 Years Of Exploring Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Where is Here? is a concise version for young adults of Flannery's classic anthology, The Explorers, including a revised introduction. The explorers of Australia were many and varied, beginning with Indigenous Australians. They often forged ahead for the Dutch, the French or the English explorers,...
South
The Endurance Expedition to Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This astonishing memoir of Shackleton's final voyage explores courage, tenacity and unflagging hope in the face of adversity. South remains one of the greatest adventures of the twentieth century.
Sir Ernest Shackleton was a pioneer of Antarctic exploration. It was his final ambition to be...
Capital
Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-28
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
An original and intriguing history of Melbourne at the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, illustrated throughout with contemporary drawings and photos.
In 1901 Melbourne was a small city. Then the founders of the Australian Commonwealth decided it was the best place to house the new...
by Julianne Schultz, Ed
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
There seems no end to our hunger for the stories of real people facing impossible odds or dealing with the mundanity of life. Yet not every life story finds or deserves an audience in addition to Facebook.Such is Life presents a dazzling selection of new memoir, personal essay and biography by some...
Griffith REVIEW Single: Leader of the gang
How political parties choose numero uno
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Glyn Davis, professor of political science and vice-chancellor of Melbourne University, argues that there are more similarities between street gangs than business enterprises. He reviews the history of the leadership turbulence that besets both sides of Australian politics through this prism and reaches...
by Clare Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014.
The Eureka Stockade.
It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and...
No Mercy
True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off.
But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort...
Griffith REVIEW 32
Wicked Problems, Exquisite Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
We live in an age of Wicked Problems, Exquisite Dilemmas. From the scale and scope of natural disasters to managing climate change, asylum seeking or river systems, new paradigms of transparency and power demand a new style of leadership, collaborative action and non-linear solutions.
UK journalist...
The Climb
Conversations with Australian Women in Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
A timely, insightful and personal portrait of what it is to be a woman in power in Australia today.
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we, as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia?
In...
by Robin Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was travelling very slowly in the right direction and could hardly have been missed by anyone except Aunt Juliet, who must have been travelling fairly fast in the wrong direction.
Growing up in the 1930s...
The Best Film I Never Made
And Other Stories about a Life in the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This entertaining collection of pieces from the acclaimed director of Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy and Mao’s Last Dancer features memoirs, brief lives and revealing accounts of the film world.
Alongside unsung heroes from behind the camera and producers of dubious repute are Madeleine...
by Patricia Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Retirement is not the time to cut all ties and head off to live in a warm climate but rather to ask: Who do I want to be near? How will my relationships be reaffirmed? What do I care about? What can I create and contribute to the world?
Meet Jim Brierley, who was still jumping out of planes...
by Stephen Orr
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
It was a butcher on smoko who reported the man stashing the kid in the car boot. He didn't really know whether he'd seen anything at all, though. Maybe an abduction? Maybe just a stressed-out father.
Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the country town where his ailing, cantankerous father...