We aim to encourage, relate and promote the stories of Australia and its people, past and present.
See below for the full range of books available from this web site.
- History
Bungala House: Historic country home in Yankalilla
- $20.00
- With more than 160 years of history, Bungala House began in the 1860s with the Butterworth brothers, millers and grain exporters. Extensions by the Graham family created a grand house of 14 rooms, plus gardens and croquet lawn; it became the social centre of the district. After Eli Butterworth died in 1886, the business was wound up and Bungala House…
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- Australian History, Maritime History, Shipping, South Australia
The Wreck of the Admella (DVD) 2nd edition
- $20.00
- Produced by the late Brenton Manser, and Robert Tremelling, in association with the Admella 150th Committee in 2009, The Wreck of the Admella is a docudrama describing the demise of the steamship Admella on 6 August 1859, broken in three on Carpenters Reef, in the notorious wild seas of the Southern Ocean, just off the coast of south-east South Australia.…
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- Aboriginal History, Art, Australian History, Biography, South Australia
Dr John Woodforde and six parrot puddings
- $30.00
- Dr John Woodforde and six parrot puddings is a fascinating and authoritative account of the ‘founding’ and survey of South Australia, from the landing at Rapid Bay to the formation of Adelaide, as recounted through the diaries of not only Dr John Woodforde, colonial surgeon, but also Dr George Mayo and Colonel William Light. The book looks at the first…
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- Aboriginal History, Australian History, Autobiography, Aviation, Cattle, Central Australia, History
At a Cost
- $45.00
- As a child, Roy McFadyen was placed in Melbourne oprhanages for his parents' convenience. At 15, and in the middle of the Great Depression, he was thrown out of home by his mother into a freezing winter's night and made an epic bicycle ride into the Mallee to become a wheat farmer's labourer. Seeking further consolation in hard work well…
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- Australian History, Biography, History, South Australia
The Biscuit Factory: Hidden history of Coromandel Valley
- $25.00
- Coromandel Valley resident Glynis Conlon spent many years meticulously researching the history of Alexander Murray's family and the origins of The Biscuit Factory ... the subject of her first book, released during May 2021 for History Month.
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- Music
Myponga: South Australia’s first pop festival
- $50.00
- A former dairy farm at Myponga, on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula, was the site of South Australia's first pop festival which was attended by more than 20,000 enthusiasts over three days, from 30 January to 1 February 1971. The aim of the legendary Myponga music festival, the first of its kind in Australia, was to promote progressive pop music, and…
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- Uncategorized
Thinking on paper
- $20.00
- Thoughtful reflection … not just for testing times. On reading Lorraine Penny McLoughlin ‘s latest publication Thinking on paper, one could be forgiven for assuming it was written this year, during trying times of lockdowns and deprivation of travel and attendance at cultural activities. However, this timely collection of thoughtful and insightful prose pieces was written between 2016 and June…
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- Art, Australian History, Biography, South Australia
BARBARA ROBERTSON: An Australian artist’s life
- $30.00
- A tribute at last to an outstanding woman artist working from 1940s to 2000, this biography by Lorraine McLoughlin features many of Robertson’s works and a DVD containing a catalogue and interview with the Adelaide artist and teacher when she was in her mid-eighties and had retired to Carrickalinga.
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- Art, Australian History, Biography, South Australia
GEORGE TETLOW and MARK AND JILL PEARSE: Lives in Art (inc. DVD)
- $35.00
- In GEORGE TETLOW AND MARK AND JILL PEARSE: Lives in Art, author Lorraine McLoughlin brings together the biographies and art works of three artists from the Yankalilla/ Normanville area on the Fleurieu Peninsula. The DVD includes interviews with George Tetlow in his studio and Mark and Jill Pearse in Bungala House.
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- Australian History, Horse Racing, Poetry
Remembering Adam Lindsay Gordon: An introduction to his poetical works
- $10.00
- An introduction for secondary students to the poetical works of Australia's national poet - Adam Lindsay Gordon - to commemorate his life, 150 years after his tragic death on 24 June 1870. Included is a brief overview of his life plus nine of his well-known poems.
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- Australian History, Biography, Horse Racing, Pastoralists
Rider and Writer: The life of Lindsay (DVD)
- $22.00
- by Brenton Manser & Rob Tremelling DVD $20.00
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- Aboriginal History, Australian History, Autobiography, Central Australia
Yami: the autobiography of Yami Lester
- $19.95
- This is Yami Lester's story. From the heart of the Western Desert, Yami tells of his early years learning the country and the Law from the Ones Who Know. Of his years as a stockman, learnibng his trade on the vast, unfenced cattle stations of the Centre, and of his years living in the world of the white people.
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- Aboriginal History, Australian History, Cattle, Central Australia
The Versatile Man: The Life and Times of Don Ross Kaytetye Stockman
- $24.95
- 'They called me the versatile man,' Don Ross recalls. 'I put up windmilkls, fixed the trucks; I only had to see a thing done once and I could do it. That's how I was.' 'I've done some mongrel jobs,' he admits, and the worst? 'Shifting bloody c attle. Walking them when it's hot and there's a long way to go…
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- Aboriginal History, Art, Biography, Central Australia
The Town Grew Up Dancing: the life and art of Wenten Rubuntja
- $59.95
- A nephew of Albert Namatjira, Wenten was encouraged by him to paint when he was a young man. An Arrernte man who has made a major contribution to the art and politics of his time, Wenten was a key figure in the land rights movement in Central Australia in the mid-1970s and has since played a lively and formative role…
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- Children's Novel, Uncategorized
The Journey of the Littlest Atom
- $12.00
- by Mary Groves 53 pages Paperback
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- Australian History, Biography, Cattle, Horse Racing, Pastoralists
The High and the Mighty: The Noel Buntine Story
- $35.00
- Starting out with one truck, named ‘The High and the Mighty’, Noel Buntine pioneered a new era in cattle transport in the Top End. Within 20 years, his enterprise, Buntine Roadways, was operating the largest cattle-carrying buyisiness ibn northern Australia. Noel’s honesty and fairness in dealings earned ghuim the accolades synonymous with the name of his first Mack truck. He…
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- Aboriginal History, Central Australia, Land Rights
Take Power: Like this Old Man Here
- $24.95
- Take Power like this old man here is an anthology celebrating twenty years of land rights in Central Australia, 1977-1997. 'Gough Whitlam pours a handful of soil into the open palm of Vincent Lingiari. After ten years of struggle, the Gurindji people have won title to their traditional lands.' 'The following year the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory) 1976 is…
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- Uncategorized, Australian History, Horse Racing
Remembering Comic Court
- $15.00
- The record-breaking 1950 Melbourne Cup winning horse, Comic Court, and legendary trainer, the late Bart Cummings, were remembered during History Month, May 2018, in a photographic display at Normanville. Comic Court spent his first couple of formative years at the Bowyer brothers' Beau Neire Stud at Normanville. He was stabled, along with other horses, in a building which forms part…
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- Children's Novel
Hi! Mister Sam
- $10.00
- by Norma King 37 pages Paperback
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- Australian History, Biography
Gordon of Dingley Dell (2nd Ed)
- $35.00
- Gordon of Dingley Dell tells the remarkable story of a man who, despite numerous cruel blows dealt him throughout his life, retained his pride to the last. Adam Lindsay Gordon had a unique understanding of a horse, just as he was a unique poet. When he was astride a horse, the horse and rider became one.
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- Aboriginal History, Australian History, Biography, Cattle, Central Australia, Horse Racing, Pastoralists, Tourist Attractions
Gidgee and Grit: a history of Loves Creek Station and Ross River Homestead, Central Australia
- $30.00
- Loves Creek Station is one of the earliest pastoral leases in Central Australia, and once covered near 4000 sq km. Gidgee and Grit traces the history of the region from geological beginnings and Aboriginal culture to the early explorers like John McDouall Stuart, and construction of the Overland Telegraph line. Also included is the story of the early pioneers like the…
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- Australian History, Cattle, Central Australia, Horse Racing, Pastoralists
Bulldust and Bough Shades (1st Ed)
- $10.00
- by Lorraine Day (formerly Lorraine Dale) 52 pages Paperback
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- Aboriginal History, Australian History, Biography
Blind Moses: Aranda man of high degree and Christian evangelist
- $34.95
- by Peter Latz 179 pages Paperback
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- Uncategorized
Aboriginal Ex-Servicemen of Central Australia
- $12.05
- Compiled by George Bray, edited by Kenny Laughton, researched by Pat Forster 22 pages Paperback
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