American-born Gus Pierce arrived in Australia and 1860 and promptly deserted, swimming ashore at Port Phillip. He worked as a photographer for Batchelders and painted scenery for the Lyceum theatre before hunting for snakes with Joe Shires – the inventor of a snake-bite cure. He compiled a strip map of the Murray River from Albury to Goolwa, by ......
A memoir from one of Australia's most prominent lifestyle influencers, Babette Hays edited Belle and wrote several books on Australian food and house style. This book touches on her life from Damascus to Europe to Australia in the 1960s, and offers some classics of French food for an Australian palette, this time with colour photographs and the ......
Magic realism set in the Mildura area, from the author of Still Life with Allen Keys. The squawking parrot knows it all, the secret keeper of this land, of wine and river, war and love, and dreams men brought to river bank. Part family saga, part love story, and told over three generations by an unreliable parrot. “A most marvellous tale.”
'...distant hooves beat time with the name. Nick Nick Nicholas Nick, they cantered. A melody began that danced along on the magical words...' It's 1960 in an Australian country town - a time well before smartphones and social media. Fourteen-year-old Sandra, a shy but ambitious piano student, is on a journey of discovery. She's secretly in love ......
A study of all of Mudrooroo's (Colin Jackson's) books up to "The Kwinkan" - his poetry, criticism and unpublished novels. Adam Shoemaker is the editor of "Paperback Anthology", and the author of "Black Words, White Page".
The story of survivors of the shipwreck of the Charles Eaton in the Torres Strait in 1834, through the eyes of young John Ireland who befriends the Mer Islanders; and their eventual rescue.
Jean-Paul Delamotte enabled many well known Australian film-makers and writers have a place in France - through his translations of films like Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Frank Moorhouse's Edith Trilogy. He went to University with Jacques Chirac and Jack Lang, and his connections were pivotal to several major Australian cultural events in France. ......
It's 1961 and life turns upside-down when 15-year-old Sandra and her family move to the city from their small country town. She's upset to leave behind her beloved piano teacher, her almost-boyfriend Nick Morgan, and especially best friend Emilia.
Parkes Shire Council has made this book possible through commissioning and funding its research, writing and publication to celebrate the 125th year of Local Government.
