Random House Australia: 1821 books
The Fair and the Foul
Inside Our Sporting Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
If anyone is qualified to talk about sport in Australia, it's David Hill. In this book, with the benefit of his years of personal experience both playing and working in the sporting world, he vividly narrates its rise in Australia since the end of the nineteenth century, from the first cricket tour...
by Fiona Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
A beautiful and comprehensive book on horses.
From Phar Lap to Makybe Diva, Garryowen to Picasso, and Our Solo to Peppermint Grove, Australians adore their horses. Be it a pony club mount, an Australian Stock Horse descendant of the mighty Waler or a Snowy Mountains brumby, such is our love...
Denny Day
The Life and Times of Australia's Greatest Lawman – the Forgotten Hero of the Myall Creek Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Captain Edward Denny Day - the only law 'from the Big River to the sea' - was Australia's greatest lawman, yet few have heard of him. This is his story.
Once there was a wilderness: Australia's frontier, a dangerous and unforgiving place where outlaws ruled the roads and killers were hailed...
by Lisa Gibbs, Bernadette Hellard
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
A junior fiction series written in partnership with Netball Australia
Will Maia ever fit in with the Gems?
Maia's just moved to Australia from New Zealand and is finding it tough. She misses her cousins, her netball team and the way everything used to be so familiar. Even her school...
Aliens, Ghosts and Vanishings
Strange and Possibly True Australian Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Have you heard the most bizarre tales from around Australia?
Did a UFO drag a family's car off the road in the middle of the outback? How did rocks rain from the sky in WA? And what became of the prime minister who went into the surf and was never seen again?
Explore the strangest tales,...
Fifteen Young Men
Australia's Untold Football Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Fifteen Young Men is the true story of a doomed adventure.
Few people know an Australian football team drowned in 1892.
Yet the boat disaster still ranks alongside the Manchester United plane crash (1958) as one of the world's greatest sporting tragedies. Lost were fifteen men and boys...
by Debi Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Gina Rinehart is the richest woman in the world - but at what cost?
From an early age Gina Rinehart knew she was heir to one of Australia's largest fortunes. Her father, Lang Hancock, loved her dearly and groomed her to take over the company. Then along came Rose, the Filipina housekeeper Lang...
Mistress
The True Stories of Mistresses and their Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Between the sheets with Australia's powerful, rich and famous
Since the First Fleet landed, Australian history has been littered with mistresses. Slide between the covers of this book to find a cheaters' list of those women, and a star-studded hall of infamy of Australia's rich and powerful...
by Yvonne Mes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including iconic painter Sidney Nolan.
Sidney Nolan is one of Australia's most admired and recognised visual artists. This is the story of how he developed his iconic Ned Kelly series of paintings,...
The Devil's Garden
The Claremont Serial Killings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In the mid-1990s, three girls went missing within a short space of time after visiting nightclubs in Claremont WA.
The State of Western Australia was in shock. Claremont is a salubrious suburb of Perth. Three lovely young women disappearing from relatively safe streets without a trace was very...
Not Your Average Nurse
From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it's never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks as a student nurse at London's King's College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. It's sink or swim.
In a...
by Heath Ducker, Samantha Trenoweth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
'It is unusual to read a story that is so confrontingly real, and yet so profoundly uplifting' Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Heath Ducker grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. He couldn't even see the tracks from where he lived, in dilapidated government housing, with shattered windows and holes...
Killing For Pleasure
The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Serial Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
The bestselling account of one of South Australia's worst series of crimes - the bodies in the barrels.
A disused bank vault holding eight dismembered bodies immersed in barrels of acid. Two bodies buried in a suburban backyard. A further two found in the bush. Such was the findings of one...
by Peter Fitzsimons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Batavia is the greatest story in Australia�s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust,...