Book reviews: December 2015
Crocodile Prize Anthology 2015, Eds Philip Fitzpatrick & Keith Jackson Myth + magic: art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea by Crispin Howarth Stone Age Moon by James O Hunter The Volcano’s Wife:...
Category: Books and Art Reviews
Stone Age Moon by James O Hunter
Self-published, 2015, ISBN: 978-0-646-93973-5, Paperback, 308 pages, colour and B&W photos, maps. Available from: PO Box 591, Bowen QLD 4805, 07 47851285, huntdon@bigpond.com Cost: AU$65 plus $15 postage within Australia, Cheque or EFT payments to: JO...
The Volcano’s Wife: The Great Untold Story by Amalia Cowley and Pamela Virtue
Purchase – Now Inspiring Publishers, Calwell, ACT, Australia, 2015, ISBN 9781925152951, 208 pages, Paperback, Photographs, maps, index. Category: Memoir/Biography. Available from the PNGAA for $25.00 plus postage. This absorbing and heart-felt story will appeal...
Book reviews: September 2015
2014 Crocodile Prize anthology Pictorial history of Papua New Guinea compiled by Dianne McInnes PNGVR: A History 1950-1973 by Major Bob Harvey-Hall, RFD, ED (Retd) 2014 Crocodile Prize anthology I was delighted to receive...
Peter Ryan, Fear Drive My Feet
Published in 2015 as a Text Classic with an introduction by Peter Pierce, by Text Publishing. ISBN: 9781925240054, Paperback, 336 pages. Available from Text Publishing: www.textpublishing.com.au at $12.95. Also available as an ebook. Fear...
A Game to be Played: The Great War and Australian Football in Sydney
by Ian Blackley and Lesley Bryden Published in 2015 by NSW Australian Football History Society. ISBN: 978-0-646-93293-4, Soft cover, 99 pages with black and white photos. Available from the NSW Australian Football History Society:...
Graeme Lindsay, When Anzac Day Comes Around (100 Years From Gallipoli Poetry Project)
Published by Forty South Publishing Pty Ltd. Hobart. Tasmania. ISBN: 978-0-9942527-0-8, Soft cover, 277 pages, colour photos at $40 plus $15 for postage and handling in Australia. Go to www.ozzywriters.com for an order form....
Dr. Peter Munster, OAM: A History of Contact and Change in the Goroka Valley, Central Highlands of New Guinea, 1934-1949
Published by Deakin University Library, available online from Deakin University Library internet service, may be a charge for non Deakin members. This is my PhD thesis on the history of the Goroka Valley. It...
Barry Taverner, Scenery and Seismic in Papua New Guinea
Published in 2014 by Barry Taverner, printed in Singapore by Paradigm Print Media. ISBN: 9780994150103, Hardcover with dust jacket,133 pages, landscape format. Available from William Adrian McGrath. Weight 900 grams, cost $49 plus postage....
Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin, Operation Rimau
Published in 2015 by Hachette Australia ISBN: 9780733633478, Paperback, 352 pages. Available at Berkelouw Books, Cronulla for $29.99. Previously published as Kill the Tiger, new material has been added to this edition of Operation...
Br Barry Louisson, Moments of Truth
Distributed by Christian Brothers, Vunakanau, ENBP, soft cover, 250 pages. Available from Br Barry Louisson barry.vuvu@gmail.com until 3 July 2015. Cost $10 plus postage $23 – PNG to Australia. From 6 July 2015 available...
Dianne McInnes, Pictorial History of Papua New Guinea
Published by Pictorial Press Australia, ISBN: 978-1-876561-07-09 (Set), Two volume boxed set – Vol 1 – Pre 1975 and Vol 2 – Post 1975. Cost $120-00 per set, postage included Aust only. Thousands of...
Drowning In the Sunshine
On this sunny autumn day We are many miles away Lost in time Drowning in the sunshine. It’s another world For me and you The Second World War The dark days of 1942. Our...
Australia’s Real Baptism of Fire by Greg Raffin
ISBN: 978-1-74130-594-4 Published 2014 Soft cover 237pp 32 photographs, 4 maps, index, references/footnotes, an appendix – including a crew list for the AE1 RRP $29.95 from Dymocks, AWM, Shrine of Remembrance (Melbourne), Five Senses...
Temlett Conibeer Rides Again – this time into West Papua
This is the fourth in Andrew Marke’s Temlett Conibeer novels. The central character in all the novels is an ultra-conservative Englishman with distinct Victorian attitudes who works in pre-independence Papua New Guinea as during...
