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There weren't too many footballers better than Dad, there were few hard working mothers better than Mum, there was a Granny as good as you can get, and then, there was usa bunch of Noongar kids growing up in a small town... ---

Lloyd and Elizabeth Horn live in Bunbury, Western Australia, and have been dedicated and passionate collectors of Western Australian art for the past 25 years. Their collection is an even mixture of some 300 two and three-dimensional works by 120 artists.

In this new collection of verse by award-winning writer Morgan Yasbincek, the poems are connected by the theme of fire: the element which has no state of rest. Yasbincek captures the power of desire and language, impressions of lives lived, creatures coming into existence and disappearing, intimacies between words and images.

Simon reluctantly finds himself at the center of a controversy over two large sculptural spires he has constructed in his suburban backyard in Melbourne. A television interview results in a late-night phone call from a wife in Perth, of whom he has no recollection. Suddenly Simon is plunged into a psychological maelstrom that has at its center a childhood trauma so horrific in its consequences, he gradually realizes that he has been trying to ...

Star Traveller Elkon from Pole Star 7 is slightly distracted when he sets his hoverfoil's co-ordinates for Gefrem and ends up instead in Tess's pencil case in Rosalie Park, Perth, Western Australia, Southern Hemisphere, Planet Earth, Milky Way Galaxy, the Universe. It is the life work of Star Travellers to collect the wishes from all the First Stars and make sure those wishes come true - a simple job really, if it weren't for seriously bad dud...

This brilliant new collection by Philip Salom recalls his internationally acclaimed Sky Poems and confirms his reputation as one of Australia's major poets of imagination and narrative invention. At the bottom of a well, a woman who has been murdered and dumped by corrupt police dreams the voices of people who have recently died. Deep underground, she is the silent witness and narrator of their earth poemsas she drifts in artesian streams towa...

In Surviviors, thrilling tales of survival at sea are brought to life in extracts from original diaries and captains' journals. From the Antarctic to The Bounty, from the well-known to the little-known or long-forgotten, these real-life stories of open boat voyages on the high seas make enthralling reading with compelling day-by-day accounts of struggle, death, and survival.

A barefoot rover believes in the value of a simple lifestyle based on true freedom that is to say, freedom that is based on responsibility and self-reliance. Barefoot Roving is a guide to nourishing food and simple preparation while sailing, touring or vacationing far from supermarkets and take-out restaurants, and without the benefit of refrigeration. Packed full of useful information including all aspects of preparing and storing food while ...

Alice is eight years old and for two years she has been galloping around, swishing her tail and snorting with her other friends of the Pony Club. But on the eve of her birthday she wakes up to discover she is no longer a horse. This is terrible. All her friends are in the pony club, and now her whole world is upside down. She tries all kinds of strange ways to get her horsiness back but it's no good. She just doesn't feel the same way about ho...

Amid the Napoleonic Wars, France and Britain dispatched voyages of discovery to complete the mapping of Australia and 'advance the limits of science.' Led by naval captains Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, they carried safe-conducts protecting them from the opposing navy in an increasingly bitter war. A chance encounter between the expeditions led to an exchange of information and civility, not considered possible in European waters. Betwe...

Feasts and Friends is an inspiring collection of recipes, ideas and cooking tips that originated in the exotic kitchens of Afghanistan, Brazil, Vietnam, Liberia, Iraq, El Salvador, Iran and Sudan. The idea for the book came out of Women Together, a group of volunteer local woman who met, cooked and gossiped with other women who had recently arrived in Australia. During these weekly meetings the women gathered around a kitchen stove and shared ...

The Child is Wise is a rich collection of childhood memories from a diverse range of Australians with very different stories to tell some happy and some unhappy. From the well known, such as Dorothy Hewitt and Vincent Serventy, to the previously unknown, each story draws on real life experiences and vividly evokes the childhoods of yesteryear. By turns funny, sad and poignant, The Child is Wise is a salute to childhood and the wisdom of the ch...

In this sequel to The Real Facts of Life, a winner with young readers, Max returns with more crucial facts of life that every kid needs to know: like, you can be extra nice for a while, but then you get tired of it. Or, even if you feel fine, you get mad if someone keeps telling you that you are angry. Now Max has to learn some facts about where babies come fromand that's only half the story. In the meantime, here's a helpful hint: when you've...

Set in late 18th and early 19th century in the outback of Western Australia, No One Owns Me tells the story of Joe. Orphaned beside a dried out waterhole in the outback, Joe is rescued by Dennis Campbell, an enterprising young cameleer who, with some ingenuity and deception, manages to raise the baby girl as his own child. However, in the rough and dangerous environment of outback life, Dennis chooses to pass Joe off as a boy. Everything seems...

The Call of the Osprey is a new book by the Childrens Book Council prize-winning duo, Norman Jorgensen and Brian Harrison-Lever. This time they have used their considerable talents to tell the story of an old retired sea captain who rescues an abandoned paddle steamer and rebuilds it with the help of a young boy, Tom. Over several years the Captain and Tom work together to restore the boat to its former glory, and as the boat is gradually rebu...

As the People's Republic of China continues to become the subject of intense political, cultural and economic interest, Ways of Seeing China offers a timely critique of the ways that Australians have seen China. The book offers a highly readable history of the Australia-China relationship, thirty years after establishment of diplomatic relations. Kendall draws on a diverse range of materials including novels, government documents, dossiers, tr...

It is estimated that every few seconds in the English speaking world alone someone purchases a romance novel. But, despite the overwhelming popularity of the genre, romance novels, writers and their readers are often harshly criticized and subject to scorn. In From Australia with Love, Juliet Flesch seeks to redress the balance by providing a witty and provocative defense of this neglected but significant part of popular literature and culture...

Earlier this year T.A.G. Hungerford was awarded the prestigious Patrick White Award for his contribution to Australian Literature. The winning of the award confirms his reputation as a major literary talent. To celebrate the event, Fremantle Arts Centre Press has combined his three autobiographical narratives into an omnibus edition. Together, Stories from a Suburban Road, Red Rover All Over and Knockabout with a Slouch Hat trace Hungerford's ...

This is a hard-hitting but witty book that looks at why contemporary women have stopped having or are having fewer children. Cannold debunks the myth that all childless women have chosen to be that way and that feminism is to blame for womens lack of freedom to choose motherhood. Cannold expertly puts the stories of childless women into the context of the unprecedented obstacles modern women face in having it all a partner, a job and children....

Seventeen-year old Martin Graham loves and understands horses. Stable lad at the Travellers Inn just out of Guildford, he also longs to join the thousands making for the goldfields around Coolgardie. Chance throws good fortune his way, and Martin Graham knows just how to ride it. On the long journey east he joins forces with Beth Wilkes, a girl with a serious chip on her shoulder when it comes to members of the male sex. But Beth is all heart ...