Lynette Ramsay Silver

Australia's Irish Rebellion. This is the story of botched mini rebellions, failed escape attempts, mutiny, conspiracies and personal tragedy. The author reveals the lives of key rebels and their enemies against a background of Irish politics that carried over to colonial Australia

Susan Sickert. This book provides real insight into the people, politics, colour and atmosphere which have been fundamental to the creation of Broome. 200pp.

For a town with seventy residents (on a good day), Birdsville is remarkably well known – the Birdsville Track, the rodeo, the pub, the infamous races.  With its ruggedness, inaccessibility and larrikin charm, this small town on the edge of the Simpson Desert has become a symbol of the great Australian outback.

What is it about Birdsville that has made it stand so large in our legends?  And what's it like to live there amongst the floods and the heat and the dust storms?

To find out, Evan McHugh packed up his Sydney home, bought a four-wheel drive and headed off with his wife for a year in the back of beyond.  Here, he tells us of the large adventures – midnight desert rescues, aerial mustering on vast cattle stations, relentless heat and massive floods – but also the small details of life in one of Australia's most isolated towns – like driving 700 kilometres to go shopping.  As the month fly by, Evan learns about an ancient culture, sees dunes carpeted in millions of tiny wildflowers, and meets the members of an outback community facing extraordinary challenges with quiet determination and buckets of good humour.

Birdsville is about breathtaking beauty and harshness of this country the generosity of its salt-of-the-earth people, and one man's discovery of his own reserves of courage and resilience.

Tim Bowden - Loves a good yarn and he loves travelling with his wife Ros. their 4WD and camper trailer. This book combines all three for a great road trip from Australia's east coast to the Top End and into the heart of the outback.

Along the way he introduces us to characters only the outback could throw up, fellow travellers and tales of exploration.

S/cover 270 pages

Winsome Maff.

An early history of Katherine, situated in the Darwin and gulf districts, travelling by road 355 kilometres south east from Darwin. Paperback

An excellent book now back in print. 

Tales of the beauty and danger acquiring diamonds from the Argyle Mine in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

(The) Red Highway

This is the story of a quest – a journey down the red highway.

On returning from a war zone, Nicolas Rothwell begins to explore the deserts and towns, sleepy coatline and hidden worlds of Australia 's north. As he travels, his journey gathers in momentum and finds a shape. He has unforgettable, even mystical encounters: with a priest, an explorer, a collector and a hunter. It becomes a quest – for knowledge and a sense of home – that builds to a stunning culmination.

Nicolas Rothwell is among Australia 's most gifted writers, and The Red Highway is a one-of-a-kind book. It explores death, friendship, travel and art, and evokes a unique and mesmerising part of the country.

The 30th Anniversay

Thirty years on, some of those who lived through the cyclone recall their frightening experiences. From sheer terror of the storm itself, to the heart-wrenching days that followed, and the massive clean up operation and evacuation of more than 20,000 people in six days. this is a compelling account of tragedy, survival and courage.

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Van Diemen's Land

James Boyce

Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book, James Boyce shows how the convicts were changed by the natural world they encountered. Escaping authority, they soon settled away from the towns, dressing in kangaroo skin and living off the land. Behind the official attempt to create a Little England was another story of adaptation, in which the poor, the exiled and the criminal made a new home in a strange land. This is their story, the story of Van Diemen's Land. 388pp.

Compiled by the Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society. 

This Society was formed in 1983 after concerns that historic sites in the area were deteriorating. Since then a partnership with Parks Victoria has led to the protection and interpretation of many sites within the Grampians N.P

This book is in response to the growing interest in the history of the area.

Rothwell Nicolas  

Wings of the Kite-Hawke is unlike any other book written about inland Australia.  Bittersweet and entrancing, it is a set of linked journeys into the Australian landscape: its past and present, its people and its half-remembered secrets.

In each chapter, Nicolas Rothwell takes a precursor and follows him.  His guides include famous explorers from the past – Leichhardt, Sturt, Strehlow and Giles – as well as artists, anthropologists, rodeo riders and even Hell's Angels.  Vivid characters weave in and out of this story, inspiring conversations and travels that examine different states of mind and heart: live, loss, fear, friendship. 327pp.