Living with the Locals: Early Europeans’ Experience of Indigenous Life

By

John maynard and Victoria Haskins

Of recent times there is much material being compiled looking back at the very early days of Europeans settling in Australia and the tragic effect that it had on the...
History, Non Fiction
The Shape of Water Imagined fragments from an elusive life: Sophia Degraves of Van Diemen’s Land

By

Anne Blythe-Cooper

The many layers of this book come together seamlessly, to make a wonderfully accurate Historical fiction story. We find a great romance, along with early Australian history, and interesting details...
Fiction, History
Where Are Our Boys? How Newsmaps Won the Great War

By

Martin Woods

In this incredibly detailed look at a perspective of World War 1, seldom observed, Martin Woods has presented a complexity of fact hat boggles the mind, creating a journey of...
History, Non Fiction
A Tear in the Soul

By

Amanda Webster

When a book as good as this is published, you feel it should be made compulsory reading for senior students and all others living in Australia. Amanda doesn't focus on...
History, Non Fiction
Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art

By

Ian W. McLean

Although this is an comprehensive and fascinating presentation of Indigenous Art forms since 1770, when the first British person, in Captain James Cook came ashore at what is today known...
History, Non Fiction
Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story

By

Elizabeth Tynan

 The word Maralinga is one that appears from time to time in modern society with a new generation asking what it was all about and the older generations, know now...
History, Non Fiction
Double Diamonds: Australian commandos in the Pacific War, 1941-45

By

Karl James

The faces of the men on the cover of this rendition of the Australian involvement in the jungles of Timor, New Guinea and Bougainville during the Second World War, simply...
History, Non Fiction, Photography
Golden Hill

By

Francis Spufford

This story is a tapestry of stories and themes,woven so tightly together that it calls for reading and re-reading. It is an Historical Fiction about the early days of New...
Fiction, History
Maggie’s Kitchen

By

Caroline Beecham

For many of us in Australia, the day to day lives of those who lived in London during the Second World War are rather hazy. Caroline has shed light on...
Fiction, History
Endeavouring Banks: Exploring collections from the Endeavour voyage

By

edited by Neil Chambers

Joseph Banks is a name synonymous with Botany, the mapping of Australia and New Zealand and voyaging far and wide with Captain James Cook during the years of 1768-1771 on...
History, Non Fiction
The House Between Tides

By

Sarah Maine

The author was inspired to write about the wild island of the New Hebrides after having spent happy times there in her childhood. She loved the history and the beauty...
Fiction, History, Romance
The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh

By

Leigh Straw

Hero or villain, Kate Leigh, this is the question. How does a rebellious, recalcitrant teenager who was sent away to a reformatory become the wealthy ‘Sly Grog Queen’ in eastern...
Crime, Fiction, History, Non Fiction