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Book Cover:  1835:The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia
By James Boyce

In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait – and so changed the shape of Australian history. Before the founding of Melbourne, British settlement on the mainland amounted to a few pinpoints on a map. Ten years later, it had become a sea of...

In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait –...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863955683
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Van Diemen's Land
By James Boyce

Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book, James Boyce shows how the convicts were changed by the natural world they encountered. Escaping authority, they soon settled away from the towns, dressing in kangaroo skin and living off the land. Behind the official...

Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book, James Boyce shows...

Published: 15/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863954914
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Botany Bay: The Real Story
By Alan Frost

For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.

We all know the conventional story.  Established as a dumping ground for Britain's criminals, Australia owes its existence simply to over-crowded jails and a daunting remoteness from everywhere else.



For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.

We all know the conventional story.  Established as a dumping ground for Britain's...

Published: 04/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863955126
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
By James Boyce

WITH THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE IN 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent.  In three years more land – and more people – were conquered than in the preceding fifty.

WITH THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE IN 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent.  In three years more land – and more people – were conquered than in the...

Published: 27/06/2011
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9781863954754
RRP: $44.95
Book Cover: The Scottish Nation: A Modern History
By T M Devine

This bestselling history of Scotland traces the epic story of a nation from the Union with England to today's debates on the possibilities of Scottish independence in the future. Ranging from high politics to everyday life, The Scottish Nation is the most read modern history of Scotland at home and abroad: vital to understanding an ancient nation at a crucial time.

'Outstanding . . . if you are after...

This bestselling history of Scotland traces the epic story of a nation from the Union with England to today's debates on the possibilities of Scottish independence in the future. Ranging from high politics...

Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718193201
RRP: $24.99
Book Cover: The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914
By Robert Bickers

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by Britain and other European powers - ferocious laws forbade all trade with the West outside one tiny area of Canton. Anyone teaching a European to speak Chinese could be executed. But as new technology began to unbalance the relationship, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. China should be opened, they believed...

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by Britain and other European powers - ferocious laws forbade all trade with the West outside one tiny area of Canton. Anyone teaching a...

Published: 17/03/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713997491
RRP: $55.00
Book Cover:  To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora
By T M Devine

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate. All over the British Empire, the United States and elsewhere, the Scottish contribution to the development of the modern world has been a formidable one, from finance to industry, philosophy...

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable...

Published: 07/10/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713997446
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The Civil War: A History
By Harry Hansen

WINNER OF THE NEW YORK CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE'S FLETCHER PRATT AWARD

From the firing on Fort Sumter to the shot the killed Abraham Lincoln, this fascinating compendium of the civil War conveys the sights, sounds, and emotions of the conflict that shaped our history and out national consciousness.  Here is the vivid and compelling commentary of generals, common soldiers, politicians, and ordinary...

WINNER OF THE NEW YORK CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE'S FLETCHER PRATT AWARD

From the firing on Fort Sumter to the shot the killed Abraham Lincoln, this fascinating compendium of the civil War conveys the sights...

Published: 11/11/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451531667
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover: The Tin Ticket
By Deborah J Swiss

Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-women who created the most liberated society of their time.

Convicted of minor crimes, four women-Agnes McMillan, Janet Houston, Bridget Mulligan, and Ludlow Tedder-were exiled to Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania. ...

Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-women who created the most...

Published: 07/12/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425243077
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
The story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.
The story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.
Published: 11/11/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780425236727
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Guns and Utu: A Short History of the Musket Wars

'So they went forth, and they were given over to death by the guns.'

—Rangipito, of Ngati Rahiri

In the two decades before the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand was ripped asunder by island-spanning waves of warfare, extreme violence and cannibalism. Great war parties surged the length of the land to avenge historic grievances, killing and burning as they went. Whole peoples were uprooted and found...

'So they went forth, and they were given over to death by the guns.'

—Rangipito, of Ngati Rahiri

In the two decades before the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand was ripped asunder by island-spanning...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143565659
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches
Published: 06/05/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780143119708
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
By James M McPherson

'Few historian write as well as McPherson, and none evoke the sound of battle with greater clarity . . . McPherson draws on almost fifty years of research to present a cogent and concise narrative of how Lincoln, working against enormous odds, saved the United States of America.'
- Jean Edward Smith, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW


'Few historian write as well as McPherson, and none evoke the sound of battle with greater clarity . . . McPherson draws on almost fifty years of research to present a cogent and concise narrative of how...

Published: 21/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143116141
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Mary Chesnut's Diary
By Mary Boykin Chesnut

An unrivalled account of the American Civil War from the Confederate perspective. 

An unrivalled account of the American Civil War from the Confederate perspective. 

Published: 18/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143106067
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Running the Show
By Stephanie Williams

'An amusing and lively book, stuffed full of anecdotes and interesting titbits' Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

'May God forgive us for our sorry deeds and for our glorious intentions'

Who were the men governing the Empire in the nineteenth century? How were they chosen and controlled? How did they see their mission? And why did they do it?

'An amusing and lively book, stuffed full of anecdotes and interesting titbits' Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

'May God forgive us for our sorry deeds and for our glorious intentions'...

Published: 27/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141041216
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided
By Amanda Foreman

'Riveting . . . the reader is swept along . . . one can hardly overestimate the brilliance of Foreman's conception . . . a shimmering tapestry'  JAY PARINI, GUARDIAN

'Riveting . . . the reader is swept along . . . one can hardly overestimate the brilliance of Foreman's conception . . . a shimmering tapestry'  JAY PARINI, GUARDIAN

Published: 06/07/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141040585
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  Napoleon's Wars: An International History 1803 - 1815

No other soldier has provoked as much anger and fervour as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a conqueror or a liberator? An aggressor or a victim? A sinner or a saint?

No other soldier has provoked as much anger and fervour as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a conqueror or a liberator? An aggressor or a victim? A sinner or a saint?

Published: 30/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141014203
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire
By Saul David

In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen, from Afghanistan and India, to Russia and the Far East.

Saul David creates a vivid portrait of the seemingly endless and brutal wars that were fought in the name of trade, civilisation and...

In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made...

Published: 19/06/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141005553
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Reflections on the Revolution in France
By Edmund Burke

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary...

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on...

Published: 01/08/1983
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140432046
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Life on the Mississippi
By Mark Twain

In 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi.

In 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi.

Published: 01/07/1985
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140390506
RRP: $9.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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