The Islands

By

Emily Brugman

There is so much to enjoy in The Islands. Much of it is set in the Archipelago called Houtman’s Abrolhos off the coast of Geraldton in Western Australia. This area...
Biographies, History, Non Fiction
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia’s greatest explorer

By

Peter FitzSimons

George Herbert Wilkins is a man little heard of in Australia but a man who did live his life to the fullest extent in every respect. A man who should...
Biographies, History, Non Fiction
Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family

By

Jacques Peretti

The rise of Hitler in Germany during the 1930s impacted not only on Jewish communities, but also the non-Jewish populations of many neighbouring countries; it can be claimed that none...
Biographies, History, Non Fiction
Lasseter’s Reef – One Man’s Journey Uncovers The Truth

By

Bill Decarli with Kristin Lee.

Lasseter’s Reef has for almost a century been talked about in so many venues in Australia as many debated whether the story of a huge gold bearing reef in Central...
Biographies, History, Non Fiction
The Freedom of Birds

By

Stephanie Parkyn

Stephanie Parkyn, in The Freedom of Birds has written an Historical Fiction of great accuracy and with many a fascinating sideline. She is passionate about ideas of “freedom and independence...
Fiction, History
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

By

Michael Veitch

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea is Michael Veitch’s tenth book relating to pilots in World War Two. His writing is very well researched and clearly written. Even though there...
History, Non Fiction
A Life in Words

By

Les Carlyon

Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup The forward to A life in words is by Les Carlyon’s son, Patrick offers a very personal look into the life a...
Biographies, History, Non Fiction
Operation Jungle

By

John Shobbrook

Although Operation Jungle may well read like a bit of fantasy it is the absolute truth; a truth that is without precedent in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics about a...
Biographies, History, Non Fiction
Two Women in Rome

By

Elizabeth Buchan

Two Women in Rome from Elizabeth Buchan immediately transports into another world as the stories of two women, Nina and Lottie, destined never to meet, come together in the most...
Fiction, History
The Countess from Kirribilli

By

Joyce Morgan

Mary Beauchamp began life in the 1860’s in Sydney. Born to a well to do merchant and his wife, Mary (known then as May) spent her first few years in...
History, Non Fiction
Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart

By

Megan Davis & George Williams.

When the Uluru Statement from the Heart evolved it was a powerful message not just to the Politicians of Australia but also to the people of Australia; it was an...
History, Non Fiction
Small Acts of Defiance

By

Michelle Wright

Small Acts of Defiance from Michelle Wright is without a doubt a brilliant piece of historical fiction that has been meticulously researched, which shows through in the storytelling as the...
Fiction, History