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Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits: Australia's Most Amazing True Life Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
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
Australia's Best Unknown Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
From Jim Haynes, one of Australia's most successful and prolific authors, comes a collection of classic Australian stories, yarns, and furphies. . . all of them unknown. Things are not always as they seem, or as we've been told. Was the Ghan really named after the Afghan traders, and do we really know w ...Show more
Australia's Best Unknown Stories (CD) by Jim Haynes
$54.95 AUD
Category: CD Audiobook
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 thought you knew. From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific Australiana authors, comes a collect ...Show more
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
$32.99 (30% off)
Category: Australian History
From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising. The result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates a ...Show more
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising
Best Australian Drinking Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The story of Australia's almost-250-year love affair with alcohol told with yarns, verse, anecdotes and surprising historical narratives "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 ...Show more
Best Australian Racing Stories: From Archer to Makybe Diva by Jim Haynes
$19.98 AUD
Category: Australian History
The finest collection of writing about horse racing includes short stories, verse and anecdotes from some of Australia's best-loved writers.
Best Australian Yarns (CD) by Jim Haynes
$39.95 AUD
Category: CD Audiobook
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive work collected from memory, mates, word of mouth and decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history. This collection includes oft-told legendary yarns, reminiscences from the shearing shed, tall stories from the bush, sporting yarns, railw ...Show more
Big Book of Verse For Aussie Kids by HAYNES Jim (ed)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 Racing Stories by Jim Haynes (Read by); Ted Hodgeman (Read by); Anna Steen (Read by); Hugh Wade (Read by)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Sport
The stories and verses in this collection are not just anecdotes, racing history pieces or rehashed feature articles from sports journalists; first and foremost they are good literature. The common thread running through the wonderful Australian short stories featured in this volume is the real Aussie c ...Show more
Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's most colourful criminal characters by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
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: Australian History
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