Shakespeare’s work has infiltrated our language; lines from his thirty nine plays and 154 poems and sonnets have become popular sayings. As with Coronavirus of […]
History
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Alice Cotton’s tiny baby daughter, Eadie is secretly given away by her grandmother; Alice is devastated. Her desperate quest to be reunited with her missing […]
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Digging deep into the dark heart of Sydney, King’s Cross in particular, during the dissolute years of what could almost be considered as unbridled debauchery […]
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Australian/Vogel Literary Award Winner 2020 (AU) for an unpublished manuscript A Treacherous Country from KM Kruimink, is set in the 1840’s and moves from England […]
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The old saying ‘an army marches on its stomach’, which has been attributed to Napoleon and Fredrick the Great, is still valid today and it […]
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To endure the German invasion of Jersey, islanders needed resilience, fortitude and ingenuity. However, to survive the five years of occupation, Hedy Bercu, a young […]
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The tone of Stone Sky Gold Mountain is sombre as the author Mirandi Riwoe looks back at Australian History in 1877. The Palmer River in […]
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Budgerigar
The joy of reading comes home to you strongly when you open this book with the rather bland title Budgerigar. Looking at the book’s cover, […]
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Kokoda is a name known to many Australians as a place of great courage; of acts of selfless bravery, mud, brutality and now, more than […]
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Why does Yoel Blum, famous Israeli writer, break his promise to his deceased mother never to visit Amsterdam? First he travels to The Netherlands to […]
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Cookbooks are glorious, sumptuous creations that temp and entice, regardless of whether they are ever used as an actual cookbook, or simply enjoyed for what […]
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History provides a abundant backdrop for a wealth of historical fiction with the Empress Josephine, beloved of Napoleon Bonaparte, with her colourful life and lasting […]
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RAAF Black Cats
Time creates history and time allows access to information kept tucked away, out of sight in various Nations Archives, information which when it was recorded […]
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Australia is not just an island, it is festooned with a myriad of smaller Islands, 8,000 in total, some inhabited, many more listed as wild […]
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Language changes over the generations and centuries with so many wonderful, rich, and incredibly funny words, at least in the world of modern language, becoming […]
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Sir Edmund Hillary,as he eventually became, was a humble man born into a New Zealand family living in Auckland in 1919. He was a quiet, […]
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History is an amazing place to visit as it holds so many secrets, strange events, life lessons and most of all, wonderful adventures from times […]
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All South Australians should read this book which is a big call, but the author has done what the best travel writers do, and that […]
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What a terrific series of stories which link in with each other in a very clever manner by the end of what is captivating reading, […]
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This anniversary edition of the story behind the Snowy Mountain Scheme, has surprisingly been written by an Irish Journalist. She also was surprised to be […]
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The Lost Gutenberg
This is a fascinating and detailed account of a Gutenberg Bible, the people responsible for its printing, and those people who owned it afterwards. The […]
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The Original Australians was released onto the market in 2006. This volume of work from respected archaeologist Josephine Flood soon became a best seller, purchased […]
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There have been many Historical Fiction books written about the First Settlers and the struggle and hardships that they faced. In A Great Southern Land […]
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A series of coincidences saw the beginning of what is now The Seventies, a work that takes a look back at a time in Australian […]