Books

“Aye, I worked on Snowy once…”

That’s how it starts.

What follows is the story of a Yorkshire lad who leaves Barnsley behind and finds himself drilling into mountains, arguing with concrete, and building more than he ever meant to.

From the roaring tunnels of the Snowy Mountains Scheme to the red dirt blocks of early Canberra, this is a tale...

In a war where the sky watches everything, survival belongs to those who adapt.

When Australia sends a small team of defence specialists to Eastern Europe to assess donated M1A1 Abrams tanks, Colonel Bruce Thompson expects a technical exercise, checklists, reports, quiet professionalism conducted far from the front.

What he finds instead is a...

SOUTHERN THUNDER

In the frozen fields of Eastern Ukraine, the war has entered a new era—where steel meets ingenuity, and courage shapes the battlefield. When a shipment of Australian M1A1 Abrams tanks arrives, they are more than machines: they are instruments of survival, forged into a lethal hybrid by the minds of Ukrainian soldiers and the...

In the 1950s, Australia was a land of tangible effort and rhythmic certainty, where a man could rely on a factory line or a wheat field to sustain a family for a lifetime. Fast-forward to 2025, and the nation has become a complex, digital-driven mosaic of infinite possibility and relentless pace.

Through the lived experiences of Jack Wilson, an...

Two blokes, one stubborn Toyota FJ40, and a plan that barely deserves to be called a plan: drive from Melbourne to Port Douglas the long way — through the dust, the pubs, the ghost towns, and the history of the Australian outback.

Part road-trip memoir, part history lesson, part misadventure comedy, this book takes readers from Kyneton to...

Prepare to be utterly captivated by Thomas Cook, a sprawling saga that takes you deep into the heart of an Australian family and the pub that defines them. From the moment Robert ‘Cookie’ Thomas steps back into the sun-drenched Hotel Cecil, he plunges into a world of hidden pasts, brutal truths, and unexpected love.

This isn’t just a story about...

Captain Blair Murphy, a proud officer of the Australian 8th Light Horse, knows courage firsthand, but fate has kept him from the battlefields of Egypt, leaving him behind at home in Bundaberg. Educated under the tutelage of the esteemed Kennedy family and trained in the rugged art of wagon and Cobb & Co. coach driving, Blair is a man of...