Underground is the 3rd book in the Master of The Ghost Dreaming quartet, beautifully and insistently portrays the enduring reality of Aboriginal Dreaming in a fascinating story of initiation, maternal longing, and colonial violence.
The second of three story collections from the writer of the acclaimed Bony crime novels, with 45 stories from the author's tramping around Australia, dealing with camels and station hands, and his experience in WW1 at Gallipoli and the Middle East. Full of fantastic characters only found in the great Australian bush.
A study of Arthur Upfield and his long-term relationship with Albermarle station, in north-western NSW from the early 1920s, where he found so many characters and plots for his Bony novels, featuring an Aboriginal detective. Upfield's letters to EV (Verco) Whyte, the overseer at Albermarle, who inspired Upfield's Gripped By Drought, are augmented ......
The Answerth family’s mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House – perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees.
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.
Arthur Upfield is internationally known for his 29 crime novels featuring Bony, the Aboriginal Detective. In these thirteen stories written for Walkabout magazine between 1934 and 1949 and published in book form for the first time, readers will travel well beyond the cities, aided by maps and original photographs – through Cooper’s Creek, visiting ......
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery #5 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal d
When Bonaparte sets out to investigate two bizarre murders near the dusty little outback town of Carie, all the odds are against him. The crimes were committed a year before, the scent cold, and any clues that may have survived have been confused by a ham-fisted city policeman.
The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For some it meant a murder plan gone awry, and for Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career.
The final 26 tales collected by the author of the best-selling Australian Legendary Tales (1896) and More Australian Legendary Tales (1898), both in ETT Imprint's list. Illustrated by Nora Heysen, this was only published once in 1930, and is now in Imprint Classics.
