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Big Book of Verse For Aussie Kids by HAYNES Jim (ed)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's General
The most comprehensive, authoritative and definitive book of poetry ever published in Australia for children. The famous rub shoulders with schoolyard rhymes, alphabets and nonsense verse. Over 600 of the best verses for children in the English language have been especially chosen, with emphasis on Aust ...Show more
Great Australian Bush Stories (CD) by Jim Haynes (Read by); Kate Hood (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audio
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 for the modern reader shows why the romance endures.From Jim Haynes, one of our most succ ...Show more
Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags - Australia's Most Colourful Criminal Characters by Jim Haynes (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audio
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 larger-than-life Aussie rogues. These stories uncover the truth and expose the myths about characters ranging from the mos ...Show more
Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's most colourful criminal characters by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia's master storyteller. The bold, the bad and the slightly mad . . . in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags, Jim Haynes brings us fifteen larger-than-life Aussies - some of the greatest, and most unknown, ne'er do wells from Austral ...Show more
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts: A Book of Dodgy Schemes and Crazy Dreams from the Bush to the City by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two.So how ...Show more
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts A book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city by Jim Haynes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audio
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, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two. So how ...Show more
Great Furphies of Australian History: What you really need to know - the truth behind the myths by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results. With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history. Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Au ...Show more
Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia by Jim Haynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. 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 the convict era, the men and women w ...Show more
The Best Australian Bush Stories by Jim Haynes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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.
The Best Australian Yarns: And Other True Stories by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humor, and anecdotes--the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history, and yarning to mates and other colorful characters from all parts of Australia.This collection includes ...Show more
The Best Gallipoli Yarns and Forgotten Stories audio cd by Jim Haynes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audio
A unique collection of poignant, horrific, sad, and sometimes dryly humorous, stories and yarns from the bloody battlefield of Gallipoli. This is not a history, nor is it an individual soldier's story. Rather Jim Haynes has done what he does so well and pulled together the many yarns and stories and ver ...Show more
The Big Book of Australian Racing Stories: Great Tales of the Turf from Jorrocks to Black Caviar by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
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 Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, from Archer to Black Caviar, from the mysterious punter Louis the Possum to the great tra ...Show more