Tales From The Treehouse: 6 books

This evocative and haunting collection of poetry brings to life the thoughts and feelings, as well as the experiences of two men who serve as emblems of a generation which must not be forgotten. These images, in both words and drawings, remind us of a time we never knew, of sights and sounds that...

In 1914 a young man enlists as a subaltern with the British Royal Field Artillery. He will serve four years in France, earning the Military Cross three times. He is mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre. A century later an Australian Vietnam Veteran bids for a portrait of...

Twenty days in a country is not long. But in twenty days you can smell spices, taste coffee, hear the call to prayer, and see mosques and minarets. Visit the Gallipoli peninsula and feel a hundred years on what it must have been like to be an ANZAC in 1915. When it comes to impacting the senses, Turkey...

Travel broadens the mind, so we are told. Reading this collection of poems is rather like going on a journey. You will meet new characters odd, eccentric, recognisable, funny, tragic, family characters. You will experience new places or old ones that you thought you were familiar with until you read...

In early 1839, Mr Patrick Reid Esq., his wife Agnes, and their eight children left Glasgow to make the long journey by sea to Australia. Eventually disembarking in Melbourne, Patrick wasted no time in erecting his prefabricated home on a prime block of land in Bourke Street and setting about the business...

Stick Your Neck Out is the funny, touching, uplifting tale of two giraffes and a black hole that sucks. Geoffrey has lost his mood for giving. His life has become a gi-normous black hole. He is untouchable and unreachable...until small, sweet Penelope sticks her neck out. On her silver scooter, dressed...