In the year 1890, Stevenson was living at Apia in Samoa, where he had purchased some three hundred acres in the bush, two miles behind and six hundred feet above the level of the town, and on which he proposed to build a cottage for himself and his family. Why did he almost immediately leave Samoa to pay his first visit to Sydney? The answer, as ......
By the time Frank Pryke’s ashes were buried at Samarai in 1937 there was little of Papua New Guinea he had not seen in his search for gold. He, more than any other, could have confirmed the miners’ lore: ‘There’s gold in New Guinea but there’s a lot of New Guinea mixed with it’.
Best known for his "Australian Slanguage", Hornadge this time writes of all those from settlement to the present who have sought their own idea of Paradise, either on our shores or on such famous expeditions as those to Paraguay. This is a bible of beachcombers and Paradise hunters, from Mary Gilmore to Cedar Bay Bill.
In this witty and entertaining memoir, Alister Kershaw describes the pleasures of his prolonged residence in France - a country of villages - from 1948, when even Paris was a series of villages.
Who is "The Lounge Lizard"? And who is "A Courtier"? "The Lounge Lizard" is a former Sydney investigative journalist, and "A Courtier" is a well-known Australian artist.
Alister Kershaw was ABC Radio's Paris Correspondent for many years and wrote classic books on French manners, like The History of the Guillotine and Murder in France. With this book though, he tells of his life in the small hill-town of Maison Salle, and its wine makers; and gives us both the joy and horror of his twelve greatest drinks ever. From ......
The True Story of the Kelly Gang of Bushrangers, published in 1900, was a highly researched biography of the notorious 19th-century Victorian family of bushrangers. Chomley wrote the biography using court documents, police records and court evidence.] It is recognised as being one of the most accurate depictions of the story of Ned Kelly, ......
'...distant hooves beat time with the name. Nick Nick Nicholas Nick, they cantered. A melody began that danced along on the magical words...' It's 1960 in an Australian country town - a time well before smartphones and social media. Fourteen-year-old Sandra, a shy but ambitious piano student, is on a journey of discovery. She's secretly in love ......
A study of all of Mudrooroo's (Colin Jackson's) books up to "The Kwinkan" - his poetry, criticism and unpublished novels. Adam Shoemaker is the editor of "Paperback Anthology", and the author of "Black Words, White Page".
