Balga Boy Jackson is the long awaited new novel of Mudrooroo. He returns to his roots to give us a vivid life story of an Australian Black Boy - naturally with a pun, Balga is the Australian grass tree called in Western Australia, the Black Boy.
These fourteen autobiographical tales were first published in 1934 and take us into Upfield's world from 1911 to the publication of The Sands of Windee and the trial of "Snowy" Rowles. They feature some of the characters and circumstances in the later Bony books. In 1934 Upfield made a genuine attempt to living as writer, working for a six month ......
An exploration of the influence of place on her art and craft practice
Revised edition with over 60 colour illustrations: The first study of Margaret Preston's life in Berowra, north of Sydney, from 1932 to 1942, fully illustrated with her woodcuts, paintings and monotypes showing that area of the Hawkesbury River. Written by the curator of the Macquarie University Art Gallery and long-time Berowra resident, this ......
Following the success of Prospecting for Gold, Idriess wrote to each of the States Mining departments to encourage more detailed guides to encourage both work and wealth during the Great Depression. Here is the Queensland response, with tremendous detail of all areas of Queensland where there be gold-bearing deposits. "I believe that this Guide ......
In 1944 the Australian literary world was rocked by a hoax which was to become a worldwide scandal. Ern Malley, deceased motor mechanic and poet, and his sister Ethel, were the invention of two Sydney poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, who were intent on proving that modern poetry was a sham. The work of the Malleys comprised lines and words ......
These stories re-create a strange and fascinating world, where a child may look through squares of lattice enclosing a garden of Indian jasmine and Kashmiri roses to the sheepyards and paddocks of the Australian countryside. They are unique in their depiction of the life of an Indian family in rural Australia, but they would be distinguished in ......
With the success of The Desert Column in 1932, Idriess wrote this series of mini-biographies on Australia's World War One Flying aces - John Duigan, Harry Cobby, Ross Smith, Oswald Watt, Gordon Taylor, Frank McNamara - our first V.C. aviator, and the post war acrobatics of Macintosh and Paper. Introducing the lot with a background piece on ......
Three murders, three perfect murders... near the rabbit-proof fence in desolate Western Australia. Perfect - except the process was exactly as described in Arthur Upfield’s crime novel The Sands of Windee (1931).
