This is the first book of the COLOURED SANDS TRILOGY. The Australian Outback Historical Saga is in essence a biography of an extraordinary woman's life. This is the story of Emily.
Coloured Sands is... More > a melting-pot story with a difference. From the first lyrical chapters of little Emily’s trek to safety after the revenge massacre of her family in outback Queensland (1901), a host of extraordinary characters pour in and out of her life. The pioneering Wilsons and their six children provide the love that remains indelibly printed on her soul. A crusty policeman saves her from an institution after sensationalist reporting casts her as The Crazy Orphan. She is adopted by a famous doctor who almost mends her wounded spirit. This novel with twists and turns of the heart captures the essence of a family through the two world wars and the great depression. The joining of mixed cultures unravels into an amazingly profound love story.
Barbara Hartmann King won an Australia Day Cultural Prize for Coloured Sands< Less
Only 120 copies will be printed of this first United States edition of Breakaway House by Arthur Upfield. Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of... More > Western Australia to find his brother who had preceded him a month earlier to investigate the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House station hold the answers?< Less
Two Teenagers relocate to the remote North West of Australia in 1986 as station hands on remote cattle stations. Stricken with isolation sickness and the brutal stand over tatics of the station... More > manager the under equipped under experienced pair flee into one of the most inhospitable regions on earth.< Less
In North America he's a cowboy, In Australia a ringer. With humour and insight the author has captured the atmoshpere of the Australian outback in this absorbing tale. We meet a young man newly... More > arrived on a north Queensland cattle station, completely out of his depth. We leave him head stockman on a vast Gulf Country station. Readers of all ages will identify with him as he learns the requiered skills, faces the dangers and assumes the responsibilities that bring about the transformation. The interesting characters he meets along the way are well drawn. The experienced men who guide him in the early years. His mates in the mustering camps. The violent types he is obliged to confront during off season labouring jobs. The cattle thieves he encounters. The young ladies who share his life from time to time. Set in the years when it was possible to ride for days on end without seeing a fence and when droving trips that lasted for months were commonplace, this is a book that is hard to put down.< Less
In North America he's a cowboy, In Australia a ringer. With humour and insight the author has captured the atmoshpere of the Australian outback in this absorbing tale. We meet a young man newly... More > arrived on a north Queensland cattle station, completely out of his depth. We leave him head stockman on a vast Gulf Country station. Readers of all ages will identify with him as he learns the requiered skills, faces the dangers and assumes the responsibilities that bring about the transformation. The interesting characters he meets along the way are well drawn. The experienced men who guide him in the early years. His mates in the mustering camps. The violent types he is obliged to confront during off season labouring jobs. The cattle thieves he encounters. The young ladies who share his life from time to time. Set in the years when it was possible to ride for days on end without seeing a fence and when droving trips that lasted for months were commonplace, this is a book that is hard to put down.< Less
Adele and her Mum are to spend a year on an Australian Outback cattle station. What fun!! Or will it be awful?
What if Adele cannot get along with the girl who lives there? What if she hates her?
See... More > what adventures Adele and her Mum experience and dream about how you would feel if it happened to you!< Less
John Theophilus De Costa was born in Kingston Jamaica in May 1843. He died 1st May, 1905 at Marian Creek (near the present township of Ilbilbie, central Queensland, Australia). John managed a cattle... More > station called "Westhill" for over two decades from 1877. Large parts of his 1898 and 1899 diaries have survived to illuminate our understanding of life in this remote frontier of Australia at the end of the 19th century and on the cusp of the Federation of Australia.< Less
This is the second novel of the COLOURED SANDS TRILOGY. The womanising Jonathon Clarke has deserted his wife and daughter for a Boston socialite. These family circumstances bring his son Benjamin,... More > an English Aristocrat to his family’s cattle station in Australia. He soon finds his match in the feuding neighbour’s daughter, the highly sexed and stunning Miriam O’Shea. Their love cannot endure. They must first be humbled by the consequences of their feuding families?
Meet Ben’s sister, the fearless, untamed Gully Raking (cattle stealing) Annie and the bold-hearted, enigmatic aboriginal servant Josie. Be enlightened by the magic of the Ancient Mystical Eagle, custodian of the secret Aboriginal Dreamtime place known as VALLEY OF THE EAGLE.
Laugh – Cry – Endure with this family.
Tracking the fortunes of the Clarke family as they battle the elements, the Outback, their neighbours and their love life will be an unforgettable experience.< Less
All surviving members of the family are summoned to an idyllic sheep and cattle station in the New Zealand High Country for the winding up of a huge family trust.. The last to arrive is Joe, the son... More > of the dying matriarch, accompanied by his very pregnant fiancée. A freak snowstorm cuts the station off from the outside world, Yet while the guests are “frozen in”, they are subjected to an in-breaking of a series of rationally inexplicable but not quite random factors involving diplomatic intrigue, a revolutionary coup in a faraway Middle East emirate, international financial transactions on a staggering scale and terrorism. In the middle of it all, a little boy is born whose birth bears increasingly eerie parallels to another birth, two thousand years ago…. right down to that postscript to the Christmas Story not usually commemorated in Sunday School Nativity plays.
Sean Pierrot is the pseudonym of a New Zealander currently domiciled in Australia< Less
In 1936, at the age of 18, Peter Mills, son of a Norfolk doctor,went in search of adventure. He sailed for Kenya, then sparsely populated, teeming with game, and almost untouched by civilization.
He... More > set out to hunt and explore but funds ran out and he had to find an income to avoid repatriation. In a remote police station he spoke
to the Inspector in charge. An hour later, he joined the prestigious Kenya Police.
His romantic exploits, gun battles with wild tribesmen, cattle rustlers and criminals, encounters with dangerous animals and eccentric
settlers are a hair-raising and often hilarious adventure.
Eventually, as a high-ranking officer he played a crucial role in the war against the Mau Mau.
This is a thrilling story of the last days of Empire and one man’s account of his exploits in a beautiful, untamed land peopled by eccentric
settlers and primitive tribes people. A story of the courage and tenacity of one rugged individualist and his part in bringing civilization to that land.< Less
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