WA CAWTHORNE, EDITED BY RICK HOSKING
When the South Australian Company landed on Kangaroo Island in 1836 to begin the official settlement of the province, they were surprised to find several others were already living there. William Cawthorne, writing in 1854, tells of some of these people, voiced in regional English dialects and rich with nautical expressions honed through their sea life.
Read MoreGRACE KARSKENS
Take a fascinating trip down Dyarubbin (the Hawkesbury-Nepean River) in the early colonial period with a trusty and observant guide.
Read MoreMARGARET COOK
A River with a City Problem is a pleasure to read. Despite encompassing a myriad of resources and themes, the narrative histories of the Brisbane floods of 1893, 1974 and 2011 flow effortlessly.
Read MorePAUL GOODWIN WITH GORDON GOODWIN
The Last Navigator is the inspiring story of Queenslander Gordon Goodwin DSO, a Royal Australian Air Force navigator, who survived five years of dangerous service flying missions over north-west Europe, to become the Chief Navigator for Qantas in its pre-jet years.
Read MoreJENNIFER DEBENHAM
This book tells how sixteen films about Indigenous Australians were made and exhibited, and the influence they exerted on mainstream audiences.
Read MoreMARK DUNN
Clashing cultures, clashing classes, rampant land grabs and dispossession of the original inhabitants are the central themes in this history of the Hunter Valley.
Read MorePAULINE CURBY (EDITOR)
The notion that Cook represents the clash of an ancient culture with a rising empire is the centralising theme of this collection of ten essays.
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