The Untold Story of Australia's First Land Speed Record
A rollicking ride through the early days of Australian motorsport. Set in 1900 - 1918 in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, the true story of bitter rivalry between two Brisbane car importers/ dealers: E.G. Eager & Son and Canada Cycle and Motor (CCM). There are four main characters.
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 19 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Sinister stones… On a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is Constable Stenhouse – shot dead. His Aboriginal tracker has disappeared. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realizes that he is not alone in his search for the criminal. ......
This is a remarkable book as it is a translation of an account written by the author Ernst Raubitschek soon after World War Two. As the title suggests it tells of his journey to Dachau concentration camp, his stay there and subsequent journey to Buchenwald concentration camp after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of war. It has been ......
An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombed from the air on a lonely outback road by a mysterious pilot who plans to conquer a nation. The trail through the land of burning waters tests Bonys endurance to the limit and takes the detective as close to death as he has ever been
Bush Studies, written during the 1890s, presents a bleak and uncompromising image of life in the Australian bush. These classic stories of pioneering Australia are introduced by Elizabeth Webby. These are not the stories of mates gathered around a fire, but of the dark loneliness of women. Not only are there fences to be built and a living to be ......
Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House station hold the answers to the mystery...
Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery?
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery # 22 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. Deep in Australia’s outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Ole Fren Yorky, a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body. When he too disappears, even the Aboriginal trackers are ......
Arthur Upfield's Aboriginal detective Bony features in 29 novels, and this book holds a "lost" Bony story - angling off Bermagui, along with several rarely seen Upfield pieces on Big Game Fishing in Australian, hunting for Marlin and Swordfish, as well as a memory piece on Bermagui - where he fished very succesfully in the 1930s, and where he ......
