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Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits: Australia's Most Amazing True Life Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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: Non Fiction
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: And Tales You Thought You Knew... by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'Not only are there many things we don't know, we should never be too sure about the things we are sure we do know.'..From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this collection of classic Australian stories.the unknown, the forgotten, the surprising.. ...Show more
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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
Best Australian Drinking Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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 Trucking Stories by Jim Haynes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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 humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more inspir ...Show more
Great Australian Drinking Stories by Jim Haynes (Read by); The Sandman (Read by); Lucy Bell (Read by); John Derum (Read by)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Audio Books
"Never trust a man who doesn't drink." BARRY HUMPHRIES 1965"Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that be heavy hearts." PROVERBS 31:6"One more drink and I'd have been under the host." DOROTHY PARKER 1935"'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess." JOHN S ...Show more
Great Australian Racing Stories by Jim Haynes (Read by); Ted Hodgeman (Read by); Anna Steen (Read by); Hugh Wade (Read by)
$10.00 AUD
$14.95 (33% off)
Category: Audio Books
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 (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audio Books
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: 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: Non Fiction
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 Books
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