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A Day to Remember by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Military
Anzac Day is the day when we remember and honour Anzac traditions down the ages, from the first faltering march of wounded veterans in 1916 to the ever increasing numbers of their descendants who march today. Containing reference to the many places the Anzacs have fought, and the various ways in which t ...Show more
A Waltz for Matilda (#1 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: The Matilda Saga
The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song.Ages 10-14 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a BillabongUnder the shade of a Coolibah treeAnd he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiledYou'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...'In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to fi ...Show more
Angel of Waterloo by French Jackie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Jackie French The soldiers she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo. The husband she loved and lost called her Hen. The patients she treated in secret called her Auntie Love. She was Henrietta Bartlett, a surgeon's daughter, a survivor of the Napoleon ...Show more
Backyard Self-Sufficiency by Jackie French
$21.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
Outlines the basic areas of self-sufficiency. Growing your own fruit and vegetables, tea, herbs etc.
Barney and the Secret of the French Spies (Secret History #4) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: The\Secret History Ser.
The new title in the critically acclaimed series that explores Australia's early Colonial secret history In 1798 orphaned Barney Bean now has a flourishing farm in the New SouthWales colony and everything he ever dreamed of ... except his childhood friendElsie. Butwhen Elsie falls ill and Barney rushes ...Show more
Birrung the Secret Friend (The Secret History Series, #1) by Jackie French
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Secret Histories
From bestselling and award-winning author Jackie French comes a new series for younger readers called The Secret Histories. This first book in the series tells the story of a young indigenous girl, Birrung, who befriends orphaned Barney and his friend Elsie. Birrung is living with Mr Johnson, chaplain t ...Show more
Christmas Always Comes: CBCA Notable Book 2022 by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
From the author and illustrator of many beloved classic picture books comes a story about an Australian Christmas. Beautiful and heartwarming, this is a book that is destined to become a family favourite. 'Joy comes in the morning' It's Christmas Eve in 1932, and Joey, Ellie and their parents are drovin ...Show more
Christmas Wombat by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
"Slept. Scratched. Slept." Indeed, it seems like Christmas will be just another day for the wombat . . . until she smells carrots In this charming picture book, the star of Diary of a Wombat goes head to head with Santa's reindeer in competition for carrots--and wins. Then, as an accidental stowaway on ...Show more
Clancy of the Overflow (#9 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Matilda Saga Ser.
From Australia's best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the bestselling Matilda Saga This is a love song to our nation, told in a single sweeping storyJed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest ...Show more
Clancy of the Overflow (#9 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Romance | Series: The\Matilda Saga Ser.
Jed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest romances - that of Clancy of the Overflow, who gave up everything for Rose, the woman he adored, and yet still gained all he'd lost and more. But Nancy's stor ...Show more
Convicts (Fair Dinkum Histories All the Stinky Bits) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: History
Telling BITS of history as they really were! In 1788, beautiful Australia became a prison as England sent their convicts to the new colony on crowded, smelly ships. And when they arrived, they brought the stink with them. Life as a convict was toughflogging was frequent, food was scarce, and they knew a ...Show more
Cyclone by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
Christmas Eve 1974 is marked indelibly into the Australian psyche, as the night tropical Cyclone Tracy devastated the city of Darwin. Now, over 40 years later, Jackie Frenchs lyrical rhyming text tells the story of a citys indomitable spirit, and Bruce Whatleys sumptuous illustrations bring to life the ...Show more