The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Nancy Wake
HarperCollins US 2003; US$ 16.95Nancy Wake - an Australian who became the most highly decorated women of World War II-reveals her story. At the age of 22, Nancy set sail for France a naive romantic. After living and working in Paris in the 1930s, World War II broke out and changed the course of her life forever. Appalled by what she'd seen of the Nazis in Berlin and Vienna,... more...
Little Theories of Life
Allen & Unwin 2007; US$ 15.45A cornucopia of theories, conundrums and fascinating morsels from the irrepressible Peter FitzSimons. more...
Batavia
Random House Australia 2011; US$ 18.08Batavia 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, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of... more...
Kokoda
Hachette Australia 2010; US$ 31.70For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened and just what our troops achieved. In this bestselling book, Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda story in his districtive gripping style. Conditions on the track were hellish: rain was constant, the terrain close to inhospitable, food and ammunition... more...
And Now For Some Light Relief...The Genuinely Funny Joke Book
Random House Australia 2011; US$ 18.08Australia?s best-selling author?s favourite wisecracks, tall tales and rib-ticklers.Two drunks were walking home along the railway tracks. The first drunk says, 'There's a hell of a lot of steps here.' The second drunk says, 'I'll tell you what's worse, this hand rail is low down.? Peter FitzSimons has collected the biggest, bestest, funniest,... more...
The Ballad of Les Darcy
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; US$ 14.49'Put Les Darcy in a uniform and the men of Australia will march to hell behind him.' That was the message trained on Australia's great 'Blacksmith Boxer', as debate about conscription raged in the middle of World War I. The problem was that Les Darcy didn't want to march at the fore of such a procession, nor to such a destination. He wanted to continue... more...
Nancy Wake Biography Revised Edition
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; US$ 18.11In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everything in her power to rid... more...
Mawson
Random House Australia 2011; US$ 18.08The story of Australia?s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration: Scott, Amundsen and ShackletonSir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline... more...
Tobruk
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; US$ 25.37'What we have, we hold' MOTTO OF AUSTRALIA'S 2/17TH BATTALION In the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia's most beloved popular historian, focuses on one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the Battle of Tobruk in 1941, in which more than 15 000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought in excruciating... more...
A Simpler Time
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; US$ 18.11A memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and values clear; when people stood by each other in... more...









