Josephine’s Garden

By

Stephanie Parkyn

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 legacy providing rich ground for...
Fiction, History
RAAF Black Cats

By

Robert Cleworth and John Suter Linton

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 was considered a necessity of...
History, Non Fiction
Tony Wheeler’s Islands of Australia: Travels through Time

By

Tony Wheeler

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 life refuges and many more...
History, Non Fiction, Travel
The Little Book of Lost Words

By

Joe Gillard

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 obsolete or simply lost in...
Fiction, History, Humour
Hillary’s Antarctica

By

Nigel Watson and Jane Ussher

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, reserved child who discovered a...
History, Non Fiction, Travel
The Silk Roads A New History of the World – Illustrated Edition

By

Peter Frankopan.Illustrated Neil Packer

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 long gone, seldom remembered and...
History, Non Fiction
The Crow Eaters: A journey through South Australia

By

Ben Stubbs

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 is, looked at familiar places,...
History, Non Fiction, Travel
The Snowy: A History, New Edition

By

Siobhán McHugh

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 asked. When Siobhan McHugh arrived...
History, Non Fiction
The Lost Gutenberg

By

Margaret Leslie Davis

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 author has extensively researched historical...
History, Non Fiction
The Original Australians The story of the Aboriginal People

By

Josephine Flood

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 by many with a genuine...
History, Non Fiction
In a Great Southern Land

By

Mary-Anne O'Connor

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 is different in that it...
Fiction, History
The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia

By

Michelle Arrow

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 history that created major change,...
History, Non Fiction