New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary (The) 3ed.

"Because Aussies speak like nobody else on this great, wide planet, you need to read this book to really understand what's going on Down Under. The New Dinkum Aussie Dictionary is a completely revised and expanded edition of this perennial favourite."

Stories that immortalised the Rudds and their efforts to farm their Queensland selection. Generous in laughs, full of the bathos and absurdity of life, this is the full restored edition of On Our Selection as it was written.

Poems of Banjo Paterson & Henry Lawson - Boxed Set

"The poetry selected for this collection reveals Paterson's love and appreciation for the Australian bush and its people. It contains not only widely published and quoted poems such as 'On Kiley's Run' and 'Clancy of The Overflow', but also lesser known poems such as 'The Uplift' and 'The Wind's Message'. The colour plates of works by Australian artists subtly illustrate the images evoked by the poems.". 63pp.

Stories of the Outback

Bert Bolton

Relive the tales of Australia's cultural icons from the outback

The Australian outback has always been Bert Boltons home. His famous stories tell the magnificent history of our country from the Dreamtime to this day. They have enticed people to return year after year, many bringing their friends, to take part in his Outback Track Tours. Bert made a practice of joining his passengers on tour for a few days to take hold of the microphone and captivate his audience with his personal tales of the country they were passing through.

This book highlights a life-time of stories and experiences that only the Outback could provide, complete with an introduction from Australian icon, Rolf Harris.

This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failures. It is about heroes and legends, illusions, delusions and hope, and one or two men with shit for brains who ought to be locked up."

As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good Weekend knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes us on a journey through a very different Australia – a country that's eccentric, puzzling, big-hearted, small-minded, nostalgic and sometimes just plain mad.

From the last travelling boxing tent to feral urban sewer rats to Vietnam Veteran bikies and the annual Parkes Elvis Festival, his writing illuminates the stranger side of Australian life in a travel book like no other.

This is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians.

Traditional Australian Verse: The Essential Collection

Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, CJ Dennis and Adam Lindsay Gordon. Once upon a time these were household names and Australians could recite their most famous verse. Here for the first time in one volume are all the great bush ballads, memorable songs and other poetry from the glory days of our bush tradition. If you always wondered what came after 'There was movement at the station...' or '"We'll all be rooned" said Hanrahan...' then Traditional Australian Verse is the book for you. Here too are the original versions of 'Advance Australia Fair', 'Bound for Botany Bay' and 'The Dog Sat on the Tucker Box'' , plus the bawdy version of 'The Bastard from the Bush'.
To entertain and delight the newcomer and the traditionalist alike, this treasury offers equal parts merriment, calumny, lyricism and gentle melancholia.

True Blue Guide to Australian Slang

An A-Z journey through the words, expressions and cultural idiosyncrasies that make Australians so unique. 126 pp.

Bruce Simpson. 

Bringing together two of his most popular books, Packhorse Drover and Hell, Highwater & Hardcases. Short stories, Poems and Yarns from the bush.