Graham Seal: 11 books
Great Convict Stories
Dramatic and moving tales from Australia's brutal early years
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller'
Warren Fahey AM
Graham Seal takes us back to Australia's ignominious beginnings, when a hungry child could be transported to the other side of the globe for the theft of a handkerchief.
It was a time when men were flogged till they bled...
Great Bush Stories
Colourful yarns and true tales from life on the land
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM
The tradition of yarns from the bush goes back to the earliest days in Australia. Colourful rural characters and dramatic incidents parade through our history and folklore, entertaining and appalling us in equal measure.
Graham...
Great Australian Journeys
Gripping stories of intrepid explorers, dramatic escapes and foolhardy adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM
Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories...
Great Australian Stories
Legends, yarns and tall tales
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters...
The Savage Shore
Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks,...
Dog's Eye and Dead Horse
The Complete Guide to Australian Rhyming Slang
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
A comprehensive collection of Australian rhyming slang, in all its fascinating (and bawdy) glory. It's much more fun to say 'What's the John Dory?' instead of 'What's the story?' and 'Give me a Captain Cook' instead of 'Give me a look', and wonderfully cheeky to remark 'Who made the apple tart?' instead...
These Few Lines - A Convict Romance
The Lost Lives of Myra and William Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A historical detective story for lovers of Colonial Australian history. With deftness and superb storytelling Graham Seal uses his own scholarly research, the fragments of letters, diary and journal entries left by Myra and William Sykes to give his readers an insight into an early Australian convict...
Great Australian Urban Myths
Revised Edition The Cane Toad High
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
We like to think that we live in an age of reason and rationality, that uncertainty and the unknown have largely been eliminated by technology and science. But it seems that we have nagging doubts. Continually, we tell each other odd tales about ankle slashers and hairy-armed women in the shopping...
by Graham Seal
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Yarns, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes are our national lifeblood. The home-grown and borrowed tales, told and re-told over generations, offer an insight into the larger national story of which every Australian has a part.
Was Breaker Morant the Gatton murderer? What happened to Sniffling...
Great Anzac Stories
The men and women who created the digger legend
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
'These stories show the overwhelming blood and honour, heroism and horror that was the Australian experience on our cruellest shores.' - Peter FitzSimons
'Accessible, short, often fresh tales capture the spirit and sentiment of Anzac.' - Roland Perry
Over the years, the experiences of...
by Graham Seal, Kim Kennedy White
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations...