The Pencil Case    by Lorraine Cobcroft
Price: $2.99 USD. 123870 words. Language: English. Published on March 28, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Neither wrongful incarceration nor childhood abuse and deprivation could break Paul Wilson’s indomitable spirit, but survival means an endless battle against the system that stole him from his family and denied him his identity.

Children of Arnhems Kaleidoscope    by Graham Wilson
Price: $3.99 USD. 116040 words. Language: English. Published on October 13, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
I grew up in aboriginal Arnhem Land where my parents came as missionaries in 1951. For over 50 years their life was spent in a place called Oenpelli, near Kadadu National Park. This our family's story, growing amongst the colours of this land, seen through my child then adult eyes. It tells of joy and painful change as an aboriginal world becomes a part of modern Australia.

Brimstone: The North Lyell Mine Disaster    by Luke Scott
Price: $3.99 USD. 66380 words. Language: English. Published on October 1, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Australia & New Zealand.
(4.75 from 4 reviews)
On Saturday, October 12, 1912, a suspicious fire broke out deep underground in a copper mine on Tasmania’s rugged west coast. Fifty men were trapped below ground for five days, as a mammoth rescue effort was undertaken to free them. At the official inquiry, one man was accused of deliberately lighting the fire to avenge the death of his brother.

Song of the Stone    by Barry Brailsford
Price: $4.99 USD. 59200 words. Language: English. Published on September 24, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Australia & New Zealand.
Barry Brailsford shares his journey into sacred knowledge held close within the higher realms of the Maori and Native American worlds. The Elders said, “The stars define this moment – they open doors of opportunity- we ask you to weave words of hope for those who seek an better life and a kinder world.” This call to walk the ancient trails changed his life. Who knows – it might change yours?

Gold Rush - Otago 1861-64    by David Hanger
Price: $9.99 USD. 106230 words. Language: English. Published by First Edition Design eBook Publishing  on June 21, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Australia & New Zealand.
Gold Rush Otago 1861-64 is about overcoming the dangers posed by the harsh mountainous landscape and furious elements of New Zealand’s Otago goldfields. The story, based on fact in terms of time, place and actual events, follows three Australian families who join forces in the search for both gold and a place they can call home.

An Island in the Autumn    by John Smith
Price: $5.99 USD. 92310 words. Language: English. Published by North Highland Publishing  on May 17, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Australia & New Zealand.
In 1970, after serving nearly twenty years in Nigeria, John Smith returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ready for a fresh assignment as a Commomwealth administrator. The ‘powers that be’ assured him that they would find him ‘an island in the autumn’

Beyond the Frontier: Explorations in Ethnohistory    by Rupert Gerritsen
Price: $9.99 USD. 68790 words. Language: English. Published on March 20, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Australia & New Zealand.
Beyond the Frontier: Explorations in Ethnohistory considers the historiography of ethnohistory and uses 2 methods to examine how long some Indigenous Australian groups had been living in villages, identifies the world's oldest ceremonial object, evidence of interaction between Indigenous Australians and megafauna, and how the Indigenous Australian reached the shores of Australia 49,000 year ago.

Outpost A Doctor on the Divide    by Gweneth Wisewould
Price: $4.90 USD. 79760 words. Language: English. Published on January 27, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Australia & New Zealand.
Gweneth Wisewould To my fellow medical practitioners: - To the very young doctors who know everything, To the very old doctors who know nothing, And all those in between who bear the burden of the health of a nation, For I have been all of them.

The Tub: A story of Australian POWs on the Burma-Thailand Railway    by Hugh V. Clarke
Price: $5.99 USD. 62050 words. Language: English. Published by BWM Books  on January 23, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Australia & New Zealand.
"Mota Koi!" Slowly Tony walked to the edge of the platform. The Jap they called Rat-face made a long speech. Patiently, Tony listened. Suddenly Rat-face kicked him violently in the stomach - a silly thing to do, Tony thought in a detached way, to a man suffering from dysentery. Bent double with pain, Tony fell against the opposite bed platform and fouled the hut. At this there were angry outcries.