An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 21 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Myra Thomas, apparently dressed only in nightgown and slippers, has walked off the train somewhere along the 650 kilometres of track that crosses the Nullarbor Plain. With two camels and a dog, Bony begins to search the desert in search of her. He finds more than ......
The first compilation of contemporary reviews and photographs of the Heavyweight Championship of the World title fight at Sydney Stadium on Boxing Day 1908 between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson, including a record of the fight by visiting novelist Jack London, reports from the Bulletin and the Argus.
The Fourth Manual written for Australian soldiers and civilians in 1942, when invasion by the Japanese seemed imminent. "To attack and to ambush, to snipe and raid is the job of the Australian Guerrilla. By rifle and grenade, by machine-gun and mortar to kill them, harry them, trap them, grant them not one moment's peace day or night. Break their ......
First published in 1944 this group of modernist poems was intended to hoax Max Harris and the Angry Penguins group. Instead there was world-wide acclaim, amidst local derision. Written by young Sydney poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart, the hoax involved the dead poet Ern Malley and his sister Ethel. The poems are augmented by commentary from ......
Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died horribly from cyanide poisoning. Now, two months later, Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte faces a cold trail - no motive, no clues. So Bony waits for what he believes to be inevitable - a third killing.
Arthur Upfield is internationally known for his 29 crime novels featuring Bony, the Aboriginal Detective. In these thirteen stories written for Walkabout magazine between 1934 and 1949 and published in book form for the first time, readers will travel well beyond the cities, aided by maps and original photographs – through Cooper’s Creek, visiting ......
Louisa Scobie was the sixth daughter of a prominent Maitland agricultural family who became Matron of Crown Street Women’s Hospital in 1913. The following she left for Egypt with the first group of Australian nurses, working in the field throughout the war. This book looks at the role nurses played in the dreadful theatres of war at Gallipoli, ......
North West Australia - in the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges, formerly known as the King Leopold Ranges between 1879 and 2020, is the setting for the story of Aboriginal leader Jandamarra and his fight again white invasion of his country. As the Sydney Morning Herald wrote in 1952:Jandamarra, who was also known as Pigeon, had been a blacktracker of ......
The second of three story collections from the writer of the acclaimed Bony crime novels, with 45 stories from the author's tramping around Australia, dealing with camels and station hands, and his experience in WW1 at Gallipoli and the Middle East. Full of fantastic characters only found in the great Australian bush.
