Tom Cole. 

After Buffalo shooting on the Wildman Plains Tom Cole went crocodile shooting in Papua New Guinea.

Today, few can comprehend what it was like to live through the trauma of the Great Depression as a child. This collection of interviews with people who grew up through the depression – men and women, urban and rural dwellers, native-born and migrant – portrays the essence of this era. 270pp

Reprint under consideration

This is a true story of life imitating imagination. In 1929 an Australian crime novelist began writing about the 'perfect' murder being commited during construction of the Rabbit Proof Fence in Western Australia.

However, before the book was published, a friend of the writer took his plot and carried out the deed as described. The resulting trial was one of the most sensational in Western Australia's history.

This book is well researched and contains a lot of information about the construction processes of the Fence in WA, as you would expect for a member of the construction gang to commit the perfect murder. Softcover 152 pages

Stories of the first white people born in Australia, the children of convicts, soldiers and free settlers. 

John Molony's intense curiosity about these people grew as their shadow walked with him-'in libraries and manuscript rooms, in the faded pages of newspapers and jounals, in the libraries of my colleagues or conversations with others." The native-born were shy; 'rarely did they speak for themselves. Often I thought that they scarcely knew who they were...'

Yet for all their second class standing, for all the discrimination from those arriving free, the native-born have had a significant effect on the development of what it is to be Australian.

Married to a man with an avid interest in Western Australia's history, and living with the Pilbara for stimulus, it was only a matter of time before this former journalist became fascinated by the regions mainly unwritten history.

Jenny Hardie began writing of the changing pastoral history of the Pilbara for The West Australian. This led onto the Port Hedland Council requesting her to write this book of the settlement and massive changes which have taken place in the Pilbara during European settlement.

A policemans' account of the Kimberley region from the 1880s to the 1920s