Leann Richards: 21 books

Australian theatre in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries produced stars which shone nationally and internationally. Some of these stars were Maesmore Morris, dancers Saharet and Maggie Dickinson, pantomime dame Arthur Stigant and American import Minnie Tittell Brune.

Magicians regularly toured Australia during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, this booklet discusses the tours of Chung Ling Soo, The Davenport Brothers, and a Maskelyne Company of 1908.

Pantomime in Australia reached its highest point during the Edwardian period. The people, the passion and the form combined to produce elaborate entertainment for early Australian audiences.

The fourth story in the Vampire Across the Hall series. Daisi Malone is back and getting into trouble again. Hundreds of shoes are strewn randomly on the streets of Newtown and Daisi, Madden, Eliza, Mark and Anna investigate. Their research leads them to a weird group of jugglers and spooky shadows...

Daisi Malone lives in the Presidio in Newtown, Sydney, Australia. The building is full of vampires, faerie psychologists, ghosts, jugglers and other strange beings. They are opposed by a silly, but sometimes nasty group, called the exspellers. In this, the fifth installment of the saga, Daisi...

When escapologist Harry Houdini toured Australia in 1910 he brought magic, mystique, his wife and an aeroplane. Houdini conquered crowds and nearly caused riots, he escaped straitjackets and shackles and flew through the air. Some said he was supernatural, to others he was a fraud, but Houdini confounded...

Born near the docks in Geelong, Carrie Moore was destined to become the queen of the Edwardian stage. From the bright lights of London to the vaudeville halls of Hobart, Carrie captivated audiences around the world. She danced across stages adorned in diamonds but died penniless and alone in Sydney. This is the story of Australia’s own Carrie Moore, the Merry Widow.