In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as “Gouger” for the Bulletin. In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler’s axe.
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 ......
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.
Bar, Bench and Land Law is both entertaining and informative. Former Appeals Court judge John P. Bryson tells the history of the development of Sydneys Phillip Street barristers chambers and recounts amusing anecdotes about the judges he has worked with.
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, ......
Herbert Scanlon spent most of 1916 on the battlefields of France, being billeted by French families and helping reconstruct French villagers with his AIF detachment. In this way he was a typical Australian in action, but he was also very young, only 17, and every event made an impression. After the war he wrote 17 little booklets about the ......
When Inspector Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback sheep station he finds that two men have been savagely beaten to death. Clues are scarce in this sun-baked, sand-blown country, but Bony’s understanding of the bush and the people who live there – both black and white – leads him inexorably towards the killer…
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 25 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here an Excise Officer looking for illicit whiskey ‘stills’ has been murdered, and it’s Bony’s job to find the killer.
Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange ‘bad boy’ Tony Carr? Why were the local Aboriginal tribe far away from town at the time of the murders? Inspector Bonaparte finds this small community very tight, till the arrival of a job-seeking bloke by the name of Nat ......
