Balmain Places 2: Balmain Coalmine (Revised Edition)

$5.00 AUD

Category: Australian Non Fiction | Series: Balmain Places 2

Black River by Matthew Spencer

$22.99 AUD

Category: Crime Fiction

Black River is the most compelling thriller you'll read this year. A long, burning summer in Sydney. A young woman found murdered in the deserted grounds of an elite boarding school. A serial killer preying on victims along the banks of the Parramatta River. A city on edge. Adam Bowman, a battling journ Black River is the most compelling thriller you'll read this year. A long, burning summer in Sydney. A young woman found murdered in the deserted grounds of an elite boarding school. A serial killer preying on victims along the banks of the Parramatta River. A city on edge. Adam Bowman, a battling journalist who grew up as the son of a teacher at Prince Albert College, might be the only person who can uncover the links between the school murder and the 'Blue Moon Killer'. But he will have to go into the darkest places of his childhood to piece together the clues. Detective Sergeant Rose Riley, meanwhile, is part of the taskforce desperately trying to find the killer before he strikes again. Adam Bowman's excavation of his past might turn out to be Rose's biggest trump card or it may bring the whole investigation crashing down, and put her own life in danger. Taut, suspenseful and utterly compelling, Black River is the best thriller you'll read this year. 'A meticulous, propulsive thriller with a cast of standout characters and intriguing setting. I could not stop reading it.' SARAH BAILEY 'Sharply plotted and relentlessly paced, it kept me guessing until the last page.' MICHAEL ROBOTHAM 'Propulsive and intricate. A gritty Sydney comes to life in Matthew Spencer's compelling cast of characters. A crime thriller that is absolutely not to be missed.' HAYLEY SCRIVENOR 'Black River hooked me and wouldn't let me go. You're going to want to read this one with all the lights on.' TIM AYLIFFE 'Dark, gritty, tense, atmospheric. I loved Black River.' CANDICE FOX ...Show more

Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths by Matthew Lamb

$45.00 AUD

Category: Biography & Memoir

"My writing allows me flight from society through solitude while permitting me to rejoin society on some of my own terms through the trading of the finished work with the society. My imaginative narrative gives me relief from prevaility and strident ideologies by allowing me the heresy of decadence (as "My writing allows me flight from society through solitude while permitting me to rejoin society on some of my own terms through the trading of the finished work with the society. My imaginative narrative gives me relief from prevaility and strident ideologies by allowing me the heresy of decadence (as in erotica).Namely, revenge against normality, reversal of normality and regression from normality. My imaginative narrative is relief from prevailing self by allowing the potential self, the discarded self, the rejected self and the non-self to have play. My imaginative narrative is relief from privacy by allowing exposure of self and the network of self."- Frank Moorhouse, 1985, private telex Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life, the author of a huge and diverse body of work - essays, short stories, journalism, scripts, the iconic Edith Trilogy - an unapologetic activist, intellectual, libertarian and champion of freedom of speech and sexual self determination. Though he lived his life publicly, his private stories have not been shared, the many paths he forged left unexamined, until now.Matthew Lamb shared many a luncheon table with Moorhouse and immersed himself in the archived life and cultural ephemera of Frank's world. This landmark study, from Moorhouse's own publisher, the first in a projected two volumes, is the fascinating and comprehensive story of how one of Australia's most original writers and pioneer of the discontinuous narrative came to be. Fearless, sardonic and utterly dedicated to his creative life, his relationships with friends, other writers and lovers were complex and long-lasting. Lamb shares the strange paths that Frank traversed and gives us a cultural history of the times that shaped Moorhouse and which Moorhouse himself helped to shape. ...Show more

Industrial Vandalism - The Rise and Fall of the Early Industries on the Balmain Peninsula by Helen Carter

$50.00 AUD

Category: Australian Non Fiction

Streets Lanes and Places of Balmain New Edition 2017 by Hamey Kath

$25.00 AUD

Category: Australian Non Fiction

Balmain To Glebe Pictorial History by Lawrence Joan, Catherine Warne

$24.95 AUD

Category: Australian Non Fiction

Pictorial History Balmain to Glebe covers the suburbs of Annandale, Balmain, Birchgrove, Leichhardt, Lilyfield and Rozelle. Glebe, although no longer part of the Leichhardt municipality, is included for geographical and historical reasons. Each area has its own story of settlement, growth and developmen Pictorial History Balmain to Glebe covers the suburbs of Annandale, Balmain, Birchgrove, Leichhardt, Lilyfield and Rozelle. Glebe, although no longer part of the Leichhardt municipality, is included for geographical and historical reasons. Each area has its own story of settlement, growth and development from Aboriginal occupancy to the changing face of suburbs in the 21st century. In that time span colonial estates and humble workers' cottages gave way to subdivision as suburbs developed away from Sydney. Annandale, the Johnston family's vast estate, was later planned as a model suburb. Balmain began with a rich maritime history and the creation of the famous Mort's Dock. Birchgrove, another colonial estate, witnessed an engineering marvel with the building of the underwater tunnel from Long Nose Point (Yurulbin) to Greenwich. Threatened demolition and unsympathetic development brought about the creation of the Balmain Association (1965), the Annandale Association (1969) and the Glebe Society (1969) by concerned citizens who wished to save the intrinsic character of these areas. Written by Joan Lawrence and Catherine Warne ...Show more

Balmain Walks 1: Balmain East (Revised Edition) by Reynolds Peter

$5.00 AUD

Category: Australian Non Fiction

Death by Demolition by Helen Carter; Stevens Ray (Introduction by)

$49.95 AUD

Category: Australian Non Fiction

This remarkable 140 page book traces the history of demolished houses in the Balmain area (Balmain, Birchgrove and Rozelle) from its earliest house built c 1815 to an inter-war bungalow recently demolished in November 2021.The 49 specific examples, accompanied by a small history of who lived in these ho This remarkable 140 page book traces the history of demolished houses in the Balmain area (Balmain, Birchgrove and Rozelle) from its earliest house built c 1815 to an inter-war bungalow recently demolished in November 2021.The 49 specific examples, accompanied by a small history of who lived in these houses until their demise, vary from a marine villa to the humble iron house.It opens with the premise that the demolition of the houses was a crime although it soon becomes clear that there were various reasons for their destruction. What makes this publication interesting is the inclusion of photographs, advertisements and plans that give us evidence of the what type of structure existed, their internal details and who were their owners or occupants. A snap shot of life in a unique and early Sydney suburb in the 19th and 20th century. ...Show more

Balmain Places 1: Mort's Dock (Revised Edition) by Reynolds Peter

$5.00 AUD

Category: Australian Non Fiction | Series: Balmain Places

Balmain Walks 2: Birchgrove, Ballast Point, Yurulbin & Elkington Park (Revised Edition) by Reynolds Peter

$5.00 AUD

Category: Australian Non Fiction | Series: Balmain Walks 2

Jack's Story Growing up in Balmain by Thomson John 'Jack'

$15.00 AUD

Category: Australian Non Fiction

The Rat Catcher by Kim Kelly

$24.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

In the sweltering summer of 1900 young wharf labourer Patrick O’Reilly is down on his luck in the slums of Sydney and homesick for Tralee. When a deadly outbreak of plague descends on the city O’Reilly’s daydreaming mind is miles away – in the golden hair and kindly confident air of a girl called Rosie In the sweltering summer of 1900 young wharf labourer Patrick O’Reilly is down on his luck in the slums of Sydney and homesick for Tralee. When a deadly outbreak of plague descends on the city O’Reilly’s daydreaming mind is miles away – in the golden hair and kindly confident air of a girl called Rosie Hughes. Just as he’s wondering why any girl would want a no-hoper like him opportunity knocks with the offer of a job as a rat catcher working for the city’s Plague Department containing the spread of disease. But the job will bring him a lot more than a pay rise and a swift education on traps and poisons. In the Public Lending Library on the top floor of the Queen Victoria Building above the bustling centre of Sydney he comes face-to-face with a legendary rat called Old Scratch who will change the way he understands himself and the world forever. Drawn from Kim Kelly’s own trove of Irish-Australian family lore The Rat Catcher is a mischievous fast-paced fable told with her trademark compassion a sharp eye on the epic in the ordinary and an irrepressible love for life in all its marvellous forms. ...Show more