The 5th in a series of 6 books written at a time of imminent Japanese invasion, this one gives us the full story of WW1 sniper Billy Sing, and other Australian snipers at Gallipoli and the Middle East.
Before he became famous with his books, Ion Idriess wrote paragraphs and short stories for The Bulletin newspaper in the 1920s and early 1930s, often under pseudonyms like "Gouger" (a miner of Opals). This collection was first published in hardback in 2013, and makes for great reading about early prospecting and Australians living in the Wild.
Harold Larwood’s own version of the great 1932-1933 Ashes cricket series, with full scores and annotated photographs from his own collection. A cricket classic, first published in 1933. Harold Larwood was one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. But this will forever be overshadowed by his role in the cricketing controversy of the century, ......
This adventure of shipwreck in the Torres Strait, and brawl for the white survivor, Barbara Thompson by the European convict who rose to power in the 1840s as a tribal chief, is based on fact - from the ships log of the HMS Rattlesnake, captained by Owen Stanley.
Variously called Australia's first modern poet, the father of modern Australian poetry, and "the master craftsman of them all," Kenneth Slessor continues to be admired in Australia and abroad for a comparatively small body of work. Yet one of his critics, Herbert C. Jaffa, has said that "some of [Slessor's] poems are among the most important ......
This book is the third in a series of books written for the Australian militia in 1942, with the threat of imminent Japanese invasion. The author's understanding of Arab tactics during the Desert War and his comprehensive knowledge of the Australian continent make this book very absorbing.
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?
100 photographs of the Light Horse taking Beersheba in 1917 from the Haydon family archives, now colourised, with text by Ion Idriess and Guy Haydon, prepared for the numerous annual events Australia-wide celebrating the succesful charge of the Light Horse on October 30; when once again ABC Landline will replay the ABC feature on the Haydon family ......
One of the great novels of early settlement in Tasmania, seen through the eyes of the shaman Jangamuttuk, who battles for the survival of his tribe in a world of white ghosts.
