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

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

Edited by Robert Tyler IV. This book follows Tyler and his son as they travel from England to Australia in the 1890s, elucidating everything about everyday life from washing to eating - mining to shopping. A delightfully contemporaneous account of life on the goldfields.