Badge, Boot, Button: The Story of Australian Uniforms

By

Criag Wilcox

Ah, the Uniform is indeed a thing of status, delineation, respect, pride and so much more and has over the many centuries, in one shape or another become a symbol...
History, Non Fiction
Looking for Rose Paterson: How Family Bush Life Nurtured Banjo the Poet

By

Jennifer Gall

Rose Patterson, who was she and why, apart from the obvious fact that she was a woman who lived in the mid 1800’s, be considered important enough to have letters,...
History, Non Fiction, Poetry
The Mysterious Mr Jacob: Diamond Merchant, Magician and Spy

By

John Kubrzycki

This narrative history about Alexander Jacob has been well researched, and paints a realistic picture of the times in India. It is set in the late 1800s and is intense...
History, Non Fiction
Billy Sing

By

Ouyang Yu

William, or “Billy” Sing, was an Australian born and raised in rural Queensland, in 1886.  He was to achieve greatness, but little is known of him today. His father was...
History, Non Fiction
Woolloomooloo: A biography

By

Louis Nowra

 Once again Louis Nowra takes a loving look a suburb of Sydney where he has found, much to his surprise, a place where he belongs, a place that fits, a...
History, Non Fiction
Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent

By

Peter Brune, Neil McDonald

Neil McDonald and Peter Brune, have both written extensively about Australia's role in the second World War. This biography about the journalist Chester Wilmot , is well researched, with comprehensive...
Biographies, History, Non Fiction
Passage to Afghanistan

By

Peter Bussian

The introduction to this defining work is stark in its simplicity, summing up in few words what thousands of news reports over the past 10 years or more, have failed...
History, Non Fiction, Photography
What do We Want?: The Story of Protest in Australia

By

Clive Hamilton, foreword by Germaine Greer

Protest is nothing  new in Australian society with the most historic occurrence being Eureka Stockade in 1854, where the miners, having had more than enough of the taxes being applied...
History, Lifestyle, Non Fiction
FROM THE WRECK

By

Jane rawson

Set in and around Adelaide in 1859, this story opens with the wreck of the sailing ship Admella, on Carpenters Reef, about one kilometre off the coast of South Australia....
Fiction, History
Wayside

By

Graham Long

The face on the cover tells a thousand stories without uttering a word: Love Over Hate just inside the cover, makes a statement from a man who has seen it...
History, Non Fiction, Photography
To Capture What We Cannot Keep

By

Beatrice Colin

For those people who have seen and marveled at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, this is a fascinating insight into the wonderful structure. The story is mostly set in Paris...
Fiction, History
The Best of Bob Byrne’s Boomer Columns

By

Bob Byrne

Every now and again, as a Baby Boomer reading this book,  I will come across a word, or a photo, and it will trigger such memories, that it is hard...
History, Non Fiction