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 ......
The vision and achievements of Henry Parkes, one of the nation's greatest founding fathers, provide the catalyst for this collection of ideas for Australian society - from education policy to rail infrastructure, from models of government to options for a republic, and from social justice through Constitutional reform to evolving multiculturalism ......
Thomas Wentworth Wills is an Australian Icarus. Having grown up among the Djabwurrung people in western Victoria, he was sent to the Rugby school in England. Returning in 1856, he promptly revolutionised colonial cricket and opened the door for the evolution of the indigenous game we know as Australian football. In 1866, he coached the Aboriginal ......
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.
Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 20 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate weather forecasts had helped farmers all over Australia, lived nearby. Ben died after a three-week drinking binge ......
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 1 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Why was King Henry, an aboriginal from Western Australia, killed in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? Who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent?
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.
