Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, this remarkable story unfolds like a gothic thriller. For 150 years scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands.

Politicians lead strange lives, but nothing is odder than the adventures of an ex-politician. In this wise and funny book John Button tells us what he's been up to since leaving the Senate in 1993. He declares himself psychotic in China and recalls a love affair in Rome. He exchanges letters with the mysterious Hannah Prisk, and visits the fourteenth most profitable restaurant in the United States.
We see him failing to do his Christmas shopping, jogging in New York and losing his money at the Melbourne Cup. Along the way reflects on everything from technological change and political correctness to election campaigns and Australia's relationship with Asia. And he meets the oddest people on aeroplanes.

Rod Nicholson has compiled an array of funny stories from many of the mates of Aussie cricketer Merv Hughes.

On the 31st October 1999 Jesse Martin, in his yacht, Lionheart, completed the last great adventure of the twentieth century becoming the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. He was eighteen years old and didn't know the meaning of impossible. After 50 000km and 328 days at sea he returned home to Port Phillip Bay and a waiting crowd of 20 000 onlookers, having lived his dream.

The record of a six month journey which took Gerald Durrell, his wife Jacquie, and two cameramen through New Zealand, Australia and Malaya. The object was, first, to see what was being done about the conservation of wildlife in these countries, and secondly, to make a series of television films for the BBC.

Australian horse-breaker and balladist Harry Morant was executed in South Africa in 1902 after service in the Boer War. 'Breaker Morant' shows that Morant's shooting of Boer prisoners was probably the result of a command inciting his patrol to vengeance. Lord Kitchener, who signed Morant's death warrant, was possibly appeasing the German Emperor, since a German missionary also died....but Morant had advised this missionary to defend himself from the dangerous Boers. FM Cutlack knew Harry Breaker Morant personally, having ridden with him in South Australia in 1898-9.

This is the rollicking adventure of a young man in Outback Australia, at a time when swaggies, quartpots and 'Jimmy Woodsers' were part of our language and heritage.

In 1902 Mrs Aeneas Gunn went with her husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. 'We of the Never-Never' and 'The Little Black Princess' are two classics of Australian literature that she wrote about her experiences in the outback. Both works have been presented here as one special condensed edition to accompany the magnificanet film 'We of the Never-Never'

Twelve women, from their 60s to their 90s, talk about their lives, and about being alive today. Each story is different, yet each is a story of hopes and dreams, fears and struggles, and above all, survival

Based on a true story................No place like home. But what if home is unsafe and violent? Fifteen year old Simone is lured by her new boyfriend with promises of a better life in a big city. On the run from a dangerous environment and her drug addicted sister, she arrives in Palmino with stars in her eyes and hope in her heart. Reality check? Okay. But what is reality when her boyfriend turns violent, the other itinerants brand her an intruder, and home becomes a drain or a squat? Simone's story is the story of a society in which no child was going to have to live in poverty: a land of milk and honey, which for some people turns sour and is filled with despair.