Objects of the Dead: Mourning and Memory in Everyday Life [PB] Available
Dr Margaret Gibson
A remarkable reflection on grieving: of both saying goodbye and living with death.
Observing Australia: 1959 to 1999 [PB] Available
K. S. Inglis
Edited and Introduced by Craig Wilcox
Ken Inglis is one of Australia's most admired and warmly regarded historians. Written with style and wit, Observing Australia is a collection of his short pieces.
Oceans: Recipes and Stories from Australia's Coastline [HB] Available
Andrew Dwyer
Oceans is a must for anyone who loves to cook or feast on seafood.
Miegunyah
Offsider: A Memoir [PB] Forthcoming
Patrick Mangan
How a scrawny pommy kid learned to love the Socceroos
Old Land, New Landscapes: A Story of Farmers, Conservation and the Landcare Movement [PB] Available
Chris Williams
The story of a farming community fighting to rehabilitate land degraded by more than a century of farming.
On Beauty, On Series [HB] Available
Susan Johnson
In On Beauty Susan Johnson explores the role of beauty in our lives, and in her life in particular: 'Sometimes I think my whole life has been one long search for beauty.
On Digestion, On Series [HB] Available
Gay Bilson
From the bestselling author of Plenty comes a thoughtful meditation on food and writing.
On Doubt, On Series [HB] Available
Leigh Sales
In this personal essay, one of Australia's most respected journalists argues in favour of a doubtful mind.
On Ecstasy, On Series [HB] Available
Barrie Kosky
In this vivid, biographical piece, provocative director Barrie Kosky explores the feelings of intense joy and delight, as well as the power and terror, that is ecstasy.
On Experience, On Series [HB] Available
David Malouf
In this beautifully written, eloquent piece, David Malouf explores the connections between writing and the imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer's life.
On Humbug, On Series [HB] Available
Robert Dessaix
With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world.
On Indignation, On Series [HB] Available
Don Watson
With characteristic wit , Don Watson explores indignation through generations of his family and their Old Testament rages.
On Longing, On Series [HB] Available
Blanche d'Alpuget
Blanche d'Alpuget's intimate and revealing meditation on longing examines the creative tension between writing and love.
On Looking at Looking: The Art and Politics of Ian Burn [HB] Available
Ann Stephen
Awards: Shorlisted for the 2007 AAANZ Power Institute Prize for Best Book
Ann Stephen traces the complex life and intellect of Ian Burn and explores the unique contribution he made to Australian art as artist, writer and curator.
Miegunyah
On Luck, On Series [HB] Available
Anne Summers
Australia has always prided itself on its luck.
In her challenging, provocative essay Anne Summers picks apart this cherished belief, and suggests that maybe we can do better.
The ON-nibus [PB] Available
Little Books on Big Themes re-packages an old-fashioned and unsexy genre to make essays modish and exciting.
Fiona Gruber, Weekend Australian
On Obsession, On Series [HB] Available
Malcolm Knox
Novelist Malcolm Knox unpicks obsession in all its manifold forms across time and place.
On Our Watch: The Race to Save Australia's Environment [PB] Available
Nicola Markus
Australia faces unique conservation challenges that most Australians do not know enough about. On Our Watch is an attempt to remedy this situation.
On Passion, Little Books on Big Themes series [HB] Available
Dorothy Porter
A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.
On Privilege, On Series [HB] Available
Julian Burnside
In this powerful broadside that takes in politicians and infamous legal cases, Julian Burnside asks what is privilege and who has it?
On Rage, On Series [HB] Available
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer's passionate and powerfully worded essay about Aboriginal rage is a provocation that will cause heated and intense debate.
On Resilience, On Series [HB] Available
Elisabeth Wynhausen
A humorous, irreverent essay that arrives at contentment and joy.
On the Home Front (Second edition): Melbourne in Wartime: 1939-1945 [PB] Available
Kate Darian-Smith
A classic and evocative study of Melbourne in wartime.
On the Run [PB] Available
Colin McLaren
Cole Goodwin pulls off the biggest undercover sting in Australia. Now he's on the run in the biggest gig of his life--survival.
On the Warpath: An Anthology of Australian Military Travel [PB] Available
Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce (eds)
This important anthology reveals the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and the world.
Once a Jolly Swagman: The Ballad of Waltzing Matilda [HB] Available
Matthew Richardson
Once a Jolly Swagman takes readers off the score sheet into the story of the one song that belongs to all Australians.
One Brief Interval: A Memoir [HB] Available
Sir Edward Woodward
The former Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Sir Edward Woodward, looks back on his life--both public and private--from a childhood during World War II to the present day.
Miegunyah
One Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia [PB] Available
Michael Symons
Foreword by Gay Bilson
A frequently acclaimed Australian classic on the history of eating in Australia. It now contains a major new section on developments over the past quarter-century.
Opportunities Beyond Carbon, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Edited by John O'Brien
Opportunities Beyond Carbon presents climate change as potentially the 'best crisis we ever had'.
Academic Monograph
Opportunities Beyond Carbon, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Edited by John O'Brien
Opportunities Beyond Carbon presents climate change as potentially the 'best crisis we ever had'.
Academic Monograph
The Origins of Multiculturalism in Australian Politics 1945-1975 [PB] Available
Mark Lopez
This is the first systematic study of the historical origins of multiculturalism in Australian politics.
Outback: Recipes and Stories from the Campfire [HB] Available
Andrew Dwyer
Illustrated with more than 200 stunning images by award-winning photographer John Hay, Outback is a celebration of the extraordinary beauty of the Australian outback with delicious recipes and campfire stories of explorers, rogues and adventurers.
Miegunyah
Outback Cooking [HB] Available
Andrew Dwyer
Illustrated with more than 200 stunning images, Outback Cooking is a visual and culinary feast.
Owen Dixon [HB] Available
Philip Ayres
The first biography ever written of Australia's most eminent judge, Sir Owen Dixon (1886-1972).
Miegunyah
Owen Dixon, New Edition [HB] Available
Philip Ayres
Foreword by Chief Justice J. J. Spigelman
The first biography ever written of Australia's most eminent judge, Sir Owen Dixon (1886-1972).
