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  • Teenagers

    by Aidan Macfarlane, Ann McPherson ...
    Ever felt you need to turn to a whole team of advisers for help in bringing up your wayward children? From psychiatrists to cooks, from laundry maids to substance abuse counsellors? Then this book, an easy-to-read guide to teenagers—and how to live happily with them—is aimed at you. By interviewing over 40 parents and their offspring, and based on up-to-the-minute medical and social facts, the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Notorious Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    The sensational lives and exploits of twenty audacious, brash and scandalous women, now in an all-new format.NOtORIOUS AUStRALIAN WOMEN celebrates the lives of some of Australia's most fearless, brash and scandalous women. there's tilly Devine, who went from streetwalker in London to wealthy Sydney madam and standover merchant; Mary Bryant, the highway robber and First Fleeter who escaped by ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Sex Lives of Australians

    A History

    by Frank Bongiorno ...
    Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day.In this fascinating social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Girt Nation

    The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3

    by David Hunt ...
    Series Book 3 - The Unauthorised History of Australia
    David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore.Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson, the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bluestockings

    The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

    by Jane Robinson ...
    The incredible story of the fight for female education in BritainIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university, there was a full-scale riot. Despite the prejudice ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Deadly Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Do women kill? Yes they do, but often for very different reasons from men ...Do women kill? Yes they do, but often for very different reasons from men ...Meet the women who have murdered - they've killed children, husbands, lovers, relatives and friends. they include the desperate, the poor, the abused, the sexually betrayed, and the downright callous. In some cases they were motivated by fear of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Stories About Storytellers

    Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others

    by Douglas Gibson ...
    The legendary Canadian book editor presents this "remarkable, four-decade romp through the back rooms of publishing" ( Toronto Sun).Scottish-born Douglas Gibson was drawn to Canada by the writing of Stephen Leacock—and eventually made his way across the Atlantic to find a job in book publishing, where he edited a biography of none other than Leacock. But over the decades, his stellar career would ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canberra

    by Paul Daley ...
    Series series The City Series
    Canberra, Australia, is a city of orphans. People arrive temporarily for work, but stay when they discover the unanticipated promise and opportunity Canberra has to offer. An exploration of the city Australia loves to hate, this book shows that there is more to this capital than politics, geometrically designed roads, and mid-century architecture. From the lake and its forgotten suburbs—traces of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Books that Made Us

    The companion to the ABC TV series

    by Carl Reinecke ...
    A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction.Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at the history of Australian culture through the books we have read and the stories we have told ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
    Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders

    The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

    by Jane Robinson ...
    It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this bill was passed? ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD