Boolarong Press: 63 books

This is the story of George Hunter, the author's grandfather, who became unemployed after the battle of Trafalgar and the Napoleonic wars.He and a friend conspired to commit a felony for which they would be transported to a far off land where the streets were said to be paved with gold.They arrived...

This book contains 13 story of retired police men and women. Pioneer Policing Robin Alexander (Bob) Smith William (Bill) Larkman George Laidlaw Rickertt Neil Douglas Raward Kevin Claude Kruger George Edward Edwards Donald John (Don) Braithwaite Neville Bruce Travers-Jones Osmund Ertman (Ossie) Cislowski...

This is the story of Charles Sturts trip to penetrate Australia's mysterious centre. South Australia is sliding into bankruptcy and the colonials look to Sturt. As "Father of Ausralian Exploration they needed him to find rich lands to rescue the South Australian economy. As one perishes, others wondered...

The tragic stories that are the history of abortion in Queensland have long been hidden in the police gazettes and inquest records of the state government archives. In Never Ever Again, Caroline de Costa unearths many of these records to show exactly what abortion meant for Australian women before the...

RU486 is the drug prescribed for medical abortion. This book deals clearly with the nature and effects of the drug, its risks and the history of its development and use in Europe, the United States and other overseas countries. It recounts the politics and controversy that surrounded its introduction...

At the time, Ned Kelly’s bushranging exploits were the biggest news story in the country. From 1869 to 1910 numerous newspaper articles were published on him. The Reporting of Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang is a compilation of these articles which tell this historic story as it was read by the nation...

A heart-warming, nostalgic and often humerous account of family life and love, spanning over 60 years of Queensland’s changing cultural life, which will have strong appeal to both country and city folk. These are the memoirs of a Queensland country girl. As a child Cynthia Lindenmayer travelled...

John Flynn is one of Australia's greatest folk heroes. His achievements are stuff of legend - no other Australian has had more monuments dedicated to him than John Flynn. Flynn established a network of cottage hospitals, flying doctors, patrol padres, welfare centres and radio transmitters to create...

The small rural Queensland town of Lawson is still reeling from the arrival of the 1990s and modernity. Surfie teacher Lawrence Lalor is condemned there to servitude y the Catholic Education League. From his veranda and the pub, he is quick to learn that while Lawson is just another 'dead-kangaroo-on-the-side-of-the-road'...

In this third novel of the Curlew series, fifteen-year-old Ben McDonald goes on the run from the law after his temper causes an unfortunate incident at the 1900 Melbourne Cup and leaves a man dead. From the Palmer River to the Top End and the Golden Mile, the trenches of Gallipoli and desert...

Is there ever a good time to confess to adultery? Lawrence Lalor, Gold Coast surfie and small town teacher has wandered through life, drifting and shifting with the wind. Sidestepping a blackmailing Southern Belle he rebels against life in a Philadelphia dead-end job and drags his beautiful wife...