Hachette Australia: 432 books
Australia's Sweetheart
The amazing story of forgotten Hollywood star Mary Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
This is the fascinating story of Mary Maguire, a 1930s Australian ingenue who sailed for Hollywood and a fabulous life, only to have her career cut short by scandal and tragedy. Packed with celebrity, history and gossip, AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART is perfect for readers of SHEILA and THE RIVIERA SET.
Mary...
Waterfront
Graft, corruption and violence - Australia's crime frontier from 1788 till now
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The colourful and exciting story of the larger-than-life characters who have populated Australia's docks, wharves and ports from the First Fleet to today - and the crime, violence and corruption that has always been present.
Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia's ports have...
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else
The stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.
From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names...
Dragon and Kangaroo
Australia and Chinas Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.
Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Graphic accounts of Australia?s worst disasters ? historical as well as events of recent years.
From the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 to the implosion of the Royal Canberra Hospital in 1997, and from the shocking Granville railway crash in 1977 to the Sea King helicopter crash of 2005, Australia's...
Traitors
How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese war criminals go free
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done'. Nowhere did they...
by Slim Dusty, Joy McKean
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Australia's greatest country singer-songwriter Slim Dusty's own story, written with Joy McKean, his wife for 50 years - now updated.
'It seems I've done most things I wanted to do, but of all things, I think I most enjoy finding good songs and recording them. There are so many songs I want...
Warrior Elite
Australias special forces Z Force to the SAS intelligence operations to cyber warfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A compelling account of Australia's intelligence organisations and special forces - from the early days of the commandos during World War II through to the SAS of today and the cyber wars of the future. From the co-author of SAS Sniper.
Warrior Elite is a unique and compelling account of Australia's...
Flinders
The Man Who Mapped Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.
Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline.
From...
by Hugh Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Many years ago, Hugh Mackay wrote the bestseller Reinventing Australia that analysed, with forensic skill, what was happening to our society. Now, in Advance Australia?Where? he takes another long, hard look at us.
While we enjoy unprecedented levels of prosperity and the promise of more to...
Grog
A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The story of grog is the story of Australia. This is how it all began.
Even before James Squire set sail as a convict aboard the First Fleet, liquor was playing its part in shaping the colony-to-be. Who was entitled to it and who wasn't; who could make and sell it and who couldn't; and how...
Empowered Fertility
The essential guide to managing fertility treatments and challenges, plus information about IVF
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Infertility can make women - and their partners - feel completely powerless. This clear, perceptive and incredibly helpful book enables women to empower themselves to not only deal with infertility but navigate the often difficult and confusing path through IVF.
Written by experienced counsellor...
Has the Luck Run Out?
What we can do to redefine Australia's future
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Why are Australians anxious and pessimistic?
Who or what has caused our loss of trust in Australia?
Why has a feeling of powerlessness crept in for so many?
Has the luck really run out for the lucky country?
And what can we do to get it back?
Every generation believes its forebears have messed...
The Battle of Long Tan
As featured in The Vietnam Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
The truth about the battle that came to define our Vietnam War - from the men who were there.
18th August, 1966. 1pm?D Company entered the plantation. They thought that, if they were lucky, they were closing in on perhaps 30 or 40 VC. They were horribly wrong.
Over twelve long, bloody...