The Naked Truth is the very personal story of Graeme Blundell – Australia’s first sex icon (by chance), a founder of the Melbourne’s theatre groups La Mama and Playbox, which showed audiences that actors could speak in Australian English, and now an acclaimed writer and journalist. [click to continue…]
John Burnley
These stories bring us face-to-face with heroism in unexpected places: in the form of a single mother facing down an Apache war party, or a whiskey-soaked drunk who wakes to find he’s the only hope for a town surrounded by marauders. [click to continue…]
Colin Macleod was a young public servant when, some forty years ago, he went to the Northern Territory in search of adventure. He took a job as a patrol officer, registering full-blood aborigines as wards of the State. [click to continue…]
Bushman of the Red Heart celebrates not only Ben, but also his parents Liz and Sam Nicker and their work in Central Australia from the Arltunga Goldfields in 1903 to Ryan’s Well/Glen Maggie from 1914-1930. [click to continue…]
From Gallipoli to Gaza brings together, for the first time, poems written by men who served in the Middle East in world War One. The soldier-poets whose works appear in this unique collection include Rupert Brooke, Leon Gellert, A.P. Herbert, ‘Banjo’ Paterson, James Griffyth Fairfax, Harley Matthews, Clem Attlee, T.E. Lawrence, Edwin ‘Trooper Gerardy’ Gerard and Siegfried Sassoon. [click to continue…]
Boxing Day, 1898. Three members of the Murphy family – Michael, Ellen and Norah – are returning to the family farm after a trip in to Gatton, a small town west of Brisbane. [click to continue…]
From Australia’s favourite poet, Rupert McCall, here is a wonderfully heartwarming collection of poems which he has dedicated to his father and grandfather. [click to continue…]
The Birdsville Track is one of the best known – and loneliest – tracks in Australia, and for twenty years Tom was the mailman, battling the searing heat, floods and mechanical breakdowns. [click to continue…]
*Australian History
Toowong – a community’s history has been written by 16 authors, all from different walks of life but with specific connections to Toowong. In writing their chapters, they drew on their own recollections and research as well as a store of happily-shared memories of other residents. [click to continue…]
‘Get off the land!’
Those were the orders from Tom Rothroy, boss of the big Kettle Ranch. From the Moon Mountains to Desert End, he had his eye on the whole valley. [click to continue…]
