Books

A book for your baby, a month by month record of the first two years of life. You can use it in any way you like, to build up a picture that you and your child will later cherish - a storehouse of unique memories and sometimes vital information. It will...

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...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 12 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. In the Grampian Mountains, two girl hitch-hikers have disappeared without trace, and the policeman sent to investigate has been murdered. Bonaparte visits the lonely...

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...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 29 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. When Eric Maidstone was found dead near Bore Ten, just west of the Dingo-proof Fence, the first thought of those who discovered his body was that he might have been...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 21 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Myra Thomas, apparently dressed only in nightgown and slippers, has walked off the train somewhere along the 650 kilometres of track that crosses the Nullarbor Plain...

By the time Frank Pryke's ashes were buried at Samarai in 1937 there was little of Papua New Guinea he had not seen in his search for gold. He, more than any other, could have confirmed the miners' lore: 'There's gold in New Guinea but...

In the wake of the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, the world learned some big lessons. But not enough. Life eventually returned to normal, affluence and profligate activity increased – it was The Best of Times. But then the gap between the Haves and the...

In this witty and entertaining memoir, Alister Kershaw describes the pleasures of his prolonged residence in France - a country of villages - from 1948, when even Paris was a series of villages. In post-war Paris, Kershaw lived a penniless but joyous...

As an authentic picture of life among the head-hunting warriors of the Torres Strait Islands it is probably unsurpassed.There are some who may think that Mr Idriess is giving us simply an imaginative picture, but the author has travelled the Strait with...

Now available for the first time, here is Upfield's own story of tramping Australia and developing his great crime novels featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective, alongside real desert characters like One-Spur Dick, Mr Pluto, Dead March Harry and...

On special assignment with Military Intelligence, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte leaves his familiar Australian outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort. Although out of his element with city people, Bony displays his characteristic...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 11 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of famous author,...

An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 13 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Broome is a little sun-drenched town on the barren north-west coast of Australia, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else’s business, where all the little...

NAMASTE involves a recognition of the Oneness of forms of art. These are simply aspects of the One. Each moment is really a point from which to view...this and all worlds.

Set in 1920s Sydney, the heyday of Theosophy and other new religions, Towards a Better World explores a time bursting with new and exciting ideas - but also with rumours concerning clergy and young boys.Based on family stories and careful research,...

Originally serialised in 1929, and out of print for 90 years, the book was written within the life spans of people who knew the Kellys – Taylor even interviewed Ned’s brother Jim prior to writing the book, while Ellen Kelly had died only a few years...

Nothing is quite what it seems in this tall tale; dubious science meets equally dubious myth making. The myth of the Tiger-wolf (Thylicine alpine) is it, as they say, a fraud? The fantastic adventures of the “Green Avenger” cartoon hero, drawn by Nat...

In Dr Wooreddy, Mudrooroo has taken his previous themes of (Aboriginal) heritage and identity and melded them into one perception. This is an amazing book.

The extraordinary story of a classic Australian pioneer - told by Australia's 'Boswell of the Bush', Ion Idriess.Almost single-handedly John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission brought to the outback the Flying Doctor Service and the Bush...

Idriess was a spotter for the famous Australian sniper, Billy Sing, and this book draws on his own experiences in the Gallipoli trenches during World War One. ... Sing had a reputation as an excellent marksman, lurking in the dark and silently sneaking...

The Punjabi migration provides the material for the first Indo-Australian literary work, first published in 1965. Set in northern New South Wales  this is something of a rural idyll, recording a cross-communal marriage and settling in to life on a sheep...

Graham Clinch graduated with a BA Magna cum laude from Villanova University in 1964 and earned a Masters degree in Psychology from Sydney University in 1974. IBM provided a rounding in Human Resources prior to his leading and directing the HR departments...

Here is Arthur Upfield's first published novel from 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a...

 By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-time Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen...

 A cypher that looked like a childs game of noughts-and-crosses; a strip of hessian bag; the rhythmic clanging sound of the turning windmill suddenly breaking the silence of the night; the minister who seemed out of place as a churchman: these were some...

POWER FOR THE PEOPLE tells the story of electricity in Sydney and Australia, and how it has influenced the development of our cities, and shaped our lives. The book begins in 1770 with the arrival of electricity aboard Captain Cook's Endeavour. It...

She'd always imagined her song for Emilia would quietly develop, and one day she would sit at her piano or the desk, take a blank music sheet, and begin the first sweet bars. It did not begin like that... It's 1964 and Sandra turns 19. She is studying...

Includes stories published in small magazines in Australia in the 1870s and 1880s. All deal with the human motivation and interaction of colonial life in Australia from women's points of view. The later stories resonate with experience of life on the...

A study of all of Mudrooroo's (Colin Jackson's) books up to "The Kwinkan" - his poetry, criticism and unpublished novels. Adam Shoemaker is the editor of "Paperback Anthology", and the author of "Black Words, White Page".

Brennan's collection of symbolist poetry is published here with a new introduction by Robert Adamson, together with letters between Brennan and the French symbolist Mallarme.

These 20 stories, illustrated with traditional Aboriginal drawings, are topical and satirical pieces, giving an insider's view to a strange and all-embracing ancient culture. B&w illustrations

Memoirs of Melbourne's bohemia circles during the thirties and forties, including among others Albert Tucker, Sydney Nolan, Max Harris, James Gleeson and John and Sunday Reed. Illustrated with photographs of the artists and writers concerned. The author,...

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...

An intriguing case for Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to sea for a days fishing... and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is...

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.

Originally published in 1894 and one of the rarest of all Kellyana, this has been out of print in any form for over 100 years.  Fully illustrated with contemporary engravings and photographs, for the 140th anniversary of the events at Stringybark Creek...

James Moody of the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion found an Egyptian dog in 1940, who became Horrie, the Battalions mascot. He wrote it first as a simple tale, augmented by his own photographs of Horrie and his mates in action in Greece, Crete and Palestine...

Its theme is simple: a tale of Miss Susan Brady, a woman with ideas above her station, who is spurned, and whose jealousy corrodes her life and drives her to try and sabotage the happiness of John Iredale, the prosperous South Australian grazier who has...

Joe Thompson was born in the small mining town of Minmi, north of Newcastle in 1889. This book follows his life there as a Pupil Teacher, to the Balmain area, where he played soccer for both Balmain and New South Wales, to a role as an instructor with...

In Egypt, in Gallipoli and in France, they are many who sleep beneath a small wooden cross and each cross will testify to people over there that we from downunder knew how to fight for a noble ide.. In this WW1 novel, published in English for the first...

In 1940, a seventeen year old girl Carys Harding Browne comes of age in Adelaide, Australia. At this time young clever men meet together at St, Mark's University College to share their love of poetry. By December 1940, St. Marks is leased to the Royal...

100 pages of unpublished photographs from the Haydon family archives, showing the courage and composure of the Light Horse in this famous Sinai cavalry charge. With text by Trooper Ion Idriess and Lieutenant Guy Haydon, here is a chance to view the...

NO 46 WHY THERE ARE SO MANY TABLES OF STILL LIFE IN MODERN PAINTINGS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE REALLY LABORATORY TABLES ON WHICH AESTHETIC PROBLEMS CAN BE ISOLATED Margaret Preston's 92 Aphorisms have only appeared in a rare limited edition Recent Paintings...

Martin Sharp was an integral part of international Pop Art in the 1960s, magnified through his covers for OZ magazine in Sydney and London, his covers for Cream, and posters of Dylan, Hendrix and Donovan. His efforts at making The Yellow House and Luna...

This is the story of a journey to Southern California, home of the American Dream, in search of fame and fortune. An Australian couple of mixed German-Chinese origin with their six-year old son Maximilian leave their settled life in Sydney to move to...

... a boy born long ago in 1938 who was named Balga or Black Boy. He had an Aboriginal mother and an African-American father who bequeathed to him the spiky mop of hair which gave him his name. So it is said. Now read on. Balga Boy Jackson is the long...

Murder down under. The car lies wrecked and abandoned near the world's longest fence, the "rabbit-proof fence" in the wheat belt of Western Australia. There is no sign of its owner. Has George Loftus simply decamped, for reasons of his own? Or was it...