Detective Inspector Bonaparte investigates abduction and murder - and nearly gets marooned on Lake Eyre.
Australian
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Author:UPFIELD, ArthurSummary: - Author:UPFIELD, ArthurSummary:
- Author:Shaw, JanetSummary:
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. “Competing in the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games was definitely one of the biggest thrills in my life. The discipline, motivation, coaching support and...
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Author:CROWLEY, F. KSummary:Documents Forrest's career as inland explorer, public servant and politician. "After being actively involved in the drafting of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Sir John Forrest fought hard for 'fair...
- Author:NUNN, JudySummary:
In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naive 19-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town in the penal colony of New South Wales. An honest man at heart, seizes a second chance at life beneath the...
- Author:MCPHEE, JackSummary:
Jack's anecdotes from the Murchison, the Kimberley and the metropolitan area as an Aboriginal pastoral worker.
- Author:FINGLETON, J. H.Summary:
The author, an outstanding cricketer in his own right, here sets down his experiences as cricket correspondent, political journalist, author, and cricketer of note.
- Author:HOULDSWORTH, MarionSummary:
Stories of childhood, and growing up in North Qld in the early 1900s
- Author:CUSACK, FrankSummary:
Stories of legendary Australian ghosts, carefully edited and told by Frank Cusack. Tales from convict days to the present, covering most states.
- Author:ABC BOOKSSummary:
Selected material from the ABC programs. Actual recordings of the sounds of war, political crises, tragic disasters, voices of protest and other evocative moments on radio.
- Author:MCCULLOUGH, ColleenSummary:
In the mental ward of an Australian military hospital just after World war Two, nurse Honour Langtry cares intensely for the five men in her charge. A new arrival, a model soldier drawn to Honour, upsets the ward.
- Author:UPFIELD, ArthurSummary:
A member of literary clique is murdered, an unfamiliar setting for Boney to investigate.
- Author:SCHUBERT, L. ASummary:
A family escaping from religious persecution in Prussia to settle in South Australia in 1838 migrate to Western Australia in 1929. The Odyssey moves away from the family home to the Pilbara and the Kimberleys.
- Author:LYONS, EnidSummary:
Dame Enid Lyons was the first woman to sit in the Australian House of Representatives. She writes of championing women's rights to equal pay and citizenship retention after foreign marriage, and the turbulent politics of post-war...
- Author:GREEN, EvanSummary:
Once a fortnight, Fred Crawford drives his battered truck on the toughest mail run in the world - across sand dunes, salt pans and the fearsome Stony Desert. Fred's visits are welcomed by station owners but he faces trouble in the...
- Author:BACKHOUSE, ElizabethSummary:
An imaginative recreation of the history of two families, commencing in Yorkshire and extending to Australia. Covering pre and First World War periods, the goldrushes, Great Depression, and the Second World War and its aftermath.
- Author:CORRIS, PeterSummary:
When Oscar Bach's body was found crushed under rubble, his death was classified as another tragic statistic of the Newcastle earthquake. So how could he have been seen alive minutes after the quake?
- Author:STEVENS, RonSummary:
Poems, both light and serious, on current concerns and all with Australian themes. Many of these poems, read by the author, are prize winners, poetic tales of the City and the Bush and the individual.
- Author:GARE, NeneSummary:
A delightful account of a large family growing up during the Depression in dire poverty. Their dream was to have a house with verandahs.
- Author:FACEY, Albert BSummary:
The author's experiences of a life-time in the W.A. hinterland - farming, droughts, Gallipoli, the Depression and World War Two. Told with great feeling.
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