Wakefield Press: 112 books
Memoirs of a Suburban Girl
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
It is 1979 and a teenage girl is charmed by a man she meets in a disco. Before long, like Alice through the looking glass, she tumbles into a world of strange and frightening characters. Desperate to escape, she takes us into the darkness and out again, delivering her tale with wit, warmth and furious...
Not the Same Sky
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the following two years, more than 4000 Irish girls are shipped across vast oceans to an unimaginable world in the new colony. On Sunday 28...
The Silent Showman
Sir George Tallis, the man behind the world's largest entertainment organisation of the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
George Tallis arrived in Australia as a 17-year-old immigrant in 1886, and rose to become head of J.C. Williamson Ltd, the world's largest entertainment organisation. This book is his story, an intriguing view of Australian entertainment between 1886 and 1938.
Out of the Silence
The history and memory of South Australia's frontier wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked earlier Australian settlement. The colony's founding Proclamation declared that as British subjects, Aboriginal people would...
Turning Points
Chapters in South Australian history
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
How distinctive is South Australia after all? South Australia has often been represented as "different": free of convicts, more enlightened in its attitudes toward Aboriginal people, established on rational economic principles, and progressive in its social and political development. Some...
The Hands
An Australian pastoral
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
"He didn't look like he could jump a bull, but she knew he could. It was all in the hands, he'd often explain. The will. The bloody mindedness." On a cattle station that stretches beyond the horizon, seven people are trapped by their history and the need to make a living. Trevor Wilkie,...
Red Silk
The life of Elliott Johnston QC
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Elliott Johnston is a working class hero. He and Elizabeth Johnston became Communists in 1941 and he resigned only to join the South Australian Supreme Court Bench. His appointment as Queen's Counsel by the Dunstan Government - after his controversial rejection by the former government of Steele Hall...
Chequered Lives
John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the early days of South Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This is the fascinating story of a Quaker family from England who camped on the beach in 1837 before the city of Adelaide was created, but rose to owning a 3000-acre estate in the Adelaide Hills. Barton Hack built his first house where the Adelaide Railway station now stands, became a merchant who owned...
Germans
Travellers, settlers and their descendants in South Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
From Beehive Corner and Bert Flugelman's polished balls in Rundle Mall to the vineyards, churches and cemeteries of the Barossa Valley, tangible signs of South Australia's Germans are everywhere to be seen. Too often, however, "the Germans" are regarded as a single group in the state's history....
by Lydia Laube
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Lydia Laube, one of the world's dauntless, intrepid travellers, is off to South America in search of the sun. Braving hair-raising mountain tracks, bandits, immigration officials, jungle beasts and third-world dentists, she ventures across Mexico, through the Panama Canal, along the coast of Columbia,...
by Lydia Laube
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A chance conversation on the Trans Siberian Express en route to Outer Mongolia causes Lydia Laube to veer off course and take a long way home. She heads south thousands of kilometres to the eerie mountains of South China, in search of a broachable pass into Vietnam. Lydia never takes no for an answer....
by Nicholas Jose
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Beijing is a city of opportunity and danger when cancer specialist Wally Frith arrives there from Sydney. Chance encounters have life-changing consequences. As the doctor's journey spirals back into his own family story, memories and ghosts shadow the seductions of the present. "Avenue of Eternal...
Breaking the Boundaries
Australian activists tell their stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
What makes an activist? What makes one person speak out against injustice while another will be content to get angry at the TV news? What makes the activist so determined to make her or his voice heard, often against powerful odds? This book looks for answers in the personal stories of 46 Australians,...
by Griselda Sprigg
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
"Dune is a four-letter word," said Griselda Sprigg on the first day of her family's attempt to make the first motorised crossing of the forbidding Simpson Desert. "And so is bloody spinifex." "Dune is a Four-letter Word" tells the story of Griselda and Reg Sprigg's pioneering...