Catalogue

If you’ve ever watched a game of footy and wondered what the hell was going on then this is the book for you.

Bill Chan doesn't know where or when he was born. But he survived war, orphanage, unhappy adoption and prejudice to build a family of his own.

The remarkable true story of a six year old boy and the mother determined to save him.

Remarkable short stories about lucky Australians.

Burma, Sudan, Siam, Malaysia. An Australian Merino Stud, an English farm. Joan Keen led a colourful pioneering life.

It was the most important year of his life; Rod Barrett promised himself he'd record a diary of every day. This is the story.

Bernardine was born in the Javan jungle. Still there as a teenager she was taken prisoner by the Japanese. After a life of perseverance, she found joy as a mother and an artist.

Isabel Matthews wrote fairytales for children. From its beginning in the beautiful village of Flackwell Heath her own life seems like a fairytale of its own.

Sold by her grandmother for the price of a chicken, Irina's life began in chaos on the Eastern Front. She was ready for fun and adventure in 1950s Australia.

Jim Howes loves a great yarn. Born in the days of rabbit plagues and manual labour, he knows for a fact that a South Coast local saw Japanese soldiers on Australian soil.

"When I was fifteen I left school and got my first job and it was only then that I saw and realised what was ahead of me, what could be achieved and what I wanted to do."

A shrewd businessman, DF would become Managing Director of one of the biggest newsprint companies in the world. But everything changed when he was asked to take a young woman on a blind date.

Can two people with childhoods of great pain and emotional suffering find success, a happy marriage or a loving family?

Mack Brown's family ran sheep. Life on the land means battles. With rabbits, rabbit inspectors, and government officials who threaten to compulsorily acquire it.

A memoir in prose and poetry, mixed with anecdotes of Hazel's childhood and happy times with her beloved husban Harold.

Tina was a timid pleaseaholic: she kept everyone happy - everyone but herself. Then her husband walked out.

Flip Phillips was a veteran of Borneo, but Australia's remote Northern Territory was a wilder frontier. His research there would lead to the building of Ord River dam.

As a rower, Ted Bromley won four Kings Cups in a row; a record that's never been equaled. When they tried to mine his farm, he went all the way to the Privy Council and won again.

Sigurd Sjoquist was a Danish gentleman. Why was he lugging carcasses in a slaughterhouse? And then the War. How could he rebuild after such setbacks?

Richard loved adventure and spent most of his life searching for it. Gypsies, choirs, ships and smugglers and eventually, romance and a new country.