Fremantle Press imprint: 157 books

No Ordinary Determination

Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF

by Jeff Hatwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015

An epic tale of two ordinary individuals thrown into theextraordinary and surreal world of the Gallipoli campaignas soldiers of the First AIF in WWI.Percy Black and Harry Murray were plain hard-workingAustralians whose paths crossed in Western Australiawhen they enlisted in support of country and...

Salt Story

Of Sea-Dogs and Fisherwomen

by Sarah Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

In this warm, lively account of living on and by the sea, Sarah Drummond writes of life as an apprentice fisherwoman. Through her firsthand experience with small-scale commercial fishing in the Great Southern, Drummond documents a way of life—fishing—that is slowly dying as waters become politicized...
by W J Peaseley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009

'Peasley's description of the events … is informative, compassionate, exciting and at times deeply moving.' —Don Grant, Australian Book Review     'The intriguing story of [the rescue of an elderly couple believed to be the last Australian nomads] and how they survived alone for the previous...
by Joanna Penglase
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Drawing on interviews, submissions to the Senate Inquiry, and personal experience, this revealing documentation describes, for the first time, the experience of Forgotten Australians from the perspective of the survivors. In August 2004, Parliamentary senators wept as they presented the report from...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Featuring both established and emerging Western Australian writers, this short story anthology includes both fiction and creative nonfiction. A quirky and memorable collection, it centers on “who we are and what we want to be”—ideas that will resonate globally despite the regional origin of...
by Steve Hawke
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

The past casts long shadows in the Kimberley's high country.A murder in the remote bush in 1916 sparks a chain of events that will haunt a family for generations. Hidden in the refuge of a secret valley, their tiny community lives unknown to the world.When, a century later, Broome schoolboy Dancer...
by David Whish-Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018

San Francisco, 1849: a place gripped by gold fever, swarming with desperate men come to seek their fortune. Among them are former convicts, Australians quick to seize control in a town without masters, a town for the taking. Into this world steps an Australian boy in search of his mother. Just twelve...
by Susan Midalia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

If Jane Austen was twenty-five today would she be a greenie or a member of the Young Liberals? Probably neither. But for twenty-five-year-old Hazel, reading the classics starting with A is a way to pass the time while jobless and plotless.A chance encounter with an irresistible older man provides...

Heartsick for Country

Stories of Love, Spirit and Creation

by Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia, Blaze Kwaymullina
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008

The stories in this anthology speak of the love between Aboriginal peoples and their countries. They are personal accounts that share knowledge, insight and emotion, each speaking of a deep connection to country and of feeling heartsick because of the harm that is being inflicted on country even today,...
by Sarah Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

The Sound is set in the 1820s, in the violent and lawless world just before the English established colonial law in Western Australia. It is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia from Tasmania to WA, plundering seal colonies,...
by Peter Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Against the background of postwar censorship and isolation, this story of flawed love follows Richard, a young writer running from his hometown of Perth in search of a freer existence in Melbourne. His best friend is an ex-boxer turned black marketer, and his girlfriend is an old-fashioned tart with...
by Natasha Lester
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

Presenting a powerful story of motherhood and loss, this novel explores the complexities of grief and disconnection—and what it takes to become connected again. Gaelle, a 30-year-old beauty editor for a fashion magazine, she is ambivalent about motherhood, and she sleeps around—not because she...
by Elizabeth Jolley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

This is the story of an old cleaning woman—known as “Weekly” or “The Newspaper” to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works—who dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present. This new edition of a contemporary classic reintroduces this very popular and distinctive character.
by Craig Silvey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004

Meet Eleanor Rigby: tiny, blind and left behind. Led by her zealous, overprotective guide dog, Warren, she courses constantly through the places she knows. Tired, mired and sequestered from the world, Eleanor can’t shirk the feeling she’s going nowhere slowly. Until, of course, she recognises...
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