Amazon Kindle – Now Available In Australia – BookOffers Buyers Guide
Amazon.com today announced that the Kindle will become available in Australia from October 19 2009. Australian book lovers will no doubt have the new international Kindle on the top of their Christmas lists this year. BookOffers.com.au predicts that the arrival of the Kindle in Australia will be a game changer for the Australian book industry. [...]
Learn MoreThe Life of Akmal charts Akmal’s early life in Egypt, with his eccentric family, to his totally different life in Australia. His first comedic gigs at Bikie conventions (coming on stage before the strippers), his marriage, and ever increasing success on stage and TV took him forward to become one of the best known and [...]
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Documenting our evolution has always been an important occupation. The wealth of knowledge stored in the Documents that Shaped Australia: Records of a Nation’s Heritage are at the foundation of who we are and the springboard for ideas to assist us where we are going.
Spanning more than 400 years, from the first documented sighting of [...]
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Australia’s Remarkable Trees – Richard Allen
In his groundbreaking publication Australia’s Remarkable Trees author Richard Allen explores the extraordinary lives of 50 of Australia’s oldest, largest and most unusual trees. From timber top to valley floor, you don’t have to be a tree hugger to enjoy knowing about, and admiring the true splendour and wealth of Australia – its life giving [...]
Nicolas Rothwell paints a poetic, profound picture in his splendid production Journeys to the Interior. He surveys both the natural and human cultures that inhabit that rarified extension of the great Australian continent from the Kimberley Ranges to Cape York.
Australia’s centre and north are a world apart from its big coastal cities. [...]
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The Chaser Annual 2008: The Little Rudd Book has just been released by the infamous ABC Chaser team.
You’ve seen them cover the election, you’ve watched their prime-time TV show, you may even have chanced a ticket to their hugely successful all-singing, all-dancing variety show which recently toured nationally. But you still want more of The [...]
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Di Morrisey, one of Australia’s most popular female novelists returns with her new release The Islands on November 2.
It’s the psychedelic 70s and social conventions are being challenged. When Catherine Moreland from rural Australia goes on her first trip abroad, a handsome American naval officer sweeps her off her feet and she goes to live [...]
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Adam Gilchrist is set to launch his new book – True Colours: My Life this week and the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting it contains some explosive accusations against the Indians.
“Former Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist is set to further inflame tensions between the two most powerful cricketing nations by questioning India’s sportsmanship – singling [...]
Long after the day is over, relieve the hangover from the Big Day Out with a bowl of brown rice.
Peace Love And Brown Rice: A Photographic History Of The Big Day Out
“Anyone who has been granted the kind of access that photographer Sophie Howarth has had to the Big Day Out – Australia’s biggest touring [...]
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