A powerful story of Australia's great sheep farms.Gripped By Drought is a powerful story of a man...

This true story came from the ship's log of the HMS Rattlesnake under the command of Captain Owen...

To observe a ridge of sandhills was to wonder what lay beyond them... Perhaps it was the sense of...

Ion 'Jack' Idriess (1889 - 1979) is recognised as one of Australia's great storytellers, having p...

Pearl divers & sea rovers in Australian seas.Mr. Idriess reveals to the reader the technique of p...

'... a boy born long ago in 1938 who was named Balga or Black Boy. He had an Aboriginal mother an...

In 1916 Alfred Wright enlisted in the AIF. After training at the Engineer Officer Training School...

Millions of years in the making, sustaining human voyagers and societies for millennia, a couple ...

On the periphery of the fast-moving city of Perth, Aboriginal teenagers eke out a living full of ...

The Cape York Peninsula, 1920... as the three ex-diggers talked across the bar at the West Coast,...

An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombe...

If any man was ever born to be murdered, it was William Lush - a hated drunk who disappeared afte...

A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Ins...

Ion Idriess was a spotter for the famous Australian sniper, Billy Sing, and this book draws on hi...

The Girl Who Helped Ned Kelly does not make a hero of the bushranger, nor does it condemm him. Bu...

No46: Why there are so many tables of still life in modern paintings is because they are really l...

This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him...

By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-time Karl Mueller is rous...

Jan Smith is the author of two novels, An Ornament of Grace (Sun Books, 1966) and The Worshipful ...

When Eric Maidstone was found dead near Bore Ten, just west of the Dingo-proof Ffence, the first ...

In 1916 Alfred Wright enlisted in the AIF. After training at the Engineer Officer Training School...

In the Grampian Mountains, two girl hitch-hikers have disappeared without trace, and the policema...

The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of i...

The Land of Black Opals.In this book, Ion Idriess tells of his beginnings, of his childhood in Li...

As an authentic picture of life among the head-hunting warriors of the Torres Strait Islands it i...

In 1944 the Australian literary world was rocked by a hoax which was to become a worldwide scanda...

Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinki...

In times past there was an Aboriginal man called Cumbo GunnerahHis people called him The Red Ka...

Tom Wills is the young man with at least two, and possibly four, different versions of Australian...

Why was King Henry, an aboriginal from Western Australia, killed in New South Wales? What was the...

Martin Sharp was an integral part of international Pop Art in the 1960s, magnified through his co...

The extraordinary story of a classic Australian pioneer - told by Australia's 'Boswell of the Bus...

An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian...

Here is the Story of Corporal Horrie, mascot for the 2 1st Machine Gun Battalion, as originally t...

Jacques Horringa worked as a freelance journalist in the Netherlands before coming to Australia. ...

The young Wooreddy recognised the omen immediately, accidentally stepping on it while bounding al...

Translated and introduced by Dr George MackanessIn 1840, 50 French Canadian 'Patriotes' were ex...

It is in a harsh and eerie landscape - the crater formed by the meteor they called 'The Stranger'...

Murder down under. The car lies wrecked and abandoned near the world's longest fence, the 'rabbit...

The stories of Renate Yates are admired for their exploration of the foibles, frailties and expec...

In 1940 a seventeen year old girl called Carys Harding Browne comes of age in Adelaide, Australia...

Why had Luke Marks driven specially out to Windee? Had he been murdered or had he, as the local p...

Never shy of voicing an opinion, artist Margaret Preston launched into print on a variety of subj...

Broome is a little sun-drenched town on the barren north-west coast of Australia, the kind of pla...

Nothing is quite what it seems in this tall tale; dubious science meets equally dubious myth maki...

Robert Louis Stevenson

Abdul the Sniper was the pride of the Turkish Army. They named his rifle 'The Mother of Death'. B...

'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but...