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Jim Haynes
A new extended collection from Jim Haynes about the true essence of Australia-our yarns and stories, from every walk of life
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'Aussies love a good story and entertainer Jim Haynes…
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bAustralia's most amazing characters of the convict age.bbrbrIn iHeroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australiai, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the…
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In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of…
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The trucker’s job - so vital to our nation’s everyday life - makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories. This first - ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers…
The deep blue sea has been an endless source of inspiration, wonder and imagination for explorers and writers alike. Australia’s history and national character have been defined by the fact…
Australia’s national character and spirit have always been defined, rightly or wrongly, by ‘the bush’. This entertaining, thought - provoking, humorous, nostalgic and, above all, highly readable collection of stories…
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humour and anecdotes - - the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and…
Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000…emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in…
Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results.
A brief history of Australian road transport, from bullocks, horse teams and camels to modern semis, is followed by 15 fascinating, dramatic and often hilarious accounts of the Aussie trucking…
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Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond, an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.
Australian history is…so curious and strange, that it…does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies… It is full of surprises, and adventures, and ..
It seemed like a good idea…at the time.‘ - the lament of many a morning after
Rum, beer, scotch, wine, beer and more beer. For nearly 250 years Australian history…
The bravest thing God ever made,‘ said a British officer of the insubordinate Aussies at Gallipoli. And before the Normandy invasion, Field Marshal Montgomery’s chief of staff remarked, 'I only…
From an eccentric musical genius to an escaped convict who ended up Japan, Jim Haynes reveals some of Australia’s most amazing, and sometimes unbelievable, true life stories
Jim Haynes, Australia’s favourite tale teller, loves the sport of kings as much as he loves Aussie yarns and bush verse. From country picnic tracks to the thoroughbred racecourses of…
An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia's master storyteller.
The bold, the bad, and the slightly mad...
Criminality, some say, is part of Australia's national identity, and in…
The bold, the bad and the slightly mad ...
Criminality, some say, is part of Australia's national identity, and in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags Jim Haynes profiles 15…
An omnibus from Jim Haynes about the true essence of what makes us Australians - our yarns, collected from every walk of life.
From remote outback and cattle stations to coastal towns comes a collection of amazing, eccentric and funny Australian stories, yarns and furphies - most completely unknown along with some you…
Jim Haynes loves the sport of kings nearly as much as he loves bush yarns, and in this volume he brings these two great loves together in the biggest book…
The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising
Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes…
‘It seemed like a good idea … at the time.’ - the lament of many a morning after
Rum, beer, scotch, wine, beer and more beer. For nearly 250 years…
The trucker’s job - so vital to our nation’s everyday life - makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories.
This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the…
A dazzling collection of writing about the sea - from first-hand accounts of ocean voyages to stories by Banjo Paterson and Mark Twain - from Australia’s most successful Australiana author.
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A bumper collection of all the very best limericks - the witty and the whimsical, the chaste and the crass, from simple from childhood versions to the very adult ones.
A unique collection of poignant, horrorific, sad, and sometimes dryly humorous, stories and yarns from bloody battlefield of Gallipoli.
The story of Australia's almost-250-year love affair with alcohol told with yarns, verse, anecdotes and surprising historical narratives
An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia’s master storyteller.
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Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age.
The ultimate collection of Australia’s craziest cons and mad schemes from a master storyteller.
The ultimate collection of great racing stories told in Jim Haynes’s inimitable style.
