Using Australian railways as a theme, Jim Haynes has compiled an entertaining selection of fiction and travelogue by some of the world's best writers...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Jim Haynes
ISBN:9780733308987
Rhyming verse at its best is great literature - but its primary purpose is to entertain. AN AUSTRALIAN HERITAGE OF VERSE showcases 300 of the most entertaining poems ever written...more details Format:Paperback
Verse is more than pleasant, jingling rhyme. It can document history, heroics and current events, tell stories, comment on social issues and satirise. At best it can be a subtle and satisfying form of literature...more details Format:Paperback
Great ANZAC Stories is a collection of writing from authors who were at Gallipoli and wrote fiction or journalism specifically about the events...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Jim Haynes
ISBN:9780733319044
Published together for the first time in a collector?s gift volume, THE BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN POPULAR RHYMED VERSE brings together highlights of AN AUSTRALIAN TREASURY OF POPULAR VERSE and AN AUSTRALIAN HERITAGE OF VERSE plus 300 poems Jim has unearthed in his research and travels. All the greats and favourites are included: Lawson...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:800
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Jim Haynes
ISBN:9780733316005
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Jim Haynes
ISBN:9780733317071
A collection of dramatic true stories and colourful accounts of our fascinating aviation history featuring personalities and pioneers, history...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Jim Haynes
ISBN:9780642562722
Alcohol, usually beer, is an integral part of Australian culture. It can develop or ruin friendships, create farcical situations, breed or shatter illusions. In this affectionate collection of short stories...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Jim Haynes
ISBN:9780733313264
Alcohol, usually beer, is an integral part of Australian culture. It can develop or ruin friendships, create farcical situations, breed or shatter illusions. In this affectionate collection of short stories...more details Format:Paperback Pages:248
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...more details Format:CD-Audio
A collection of 300 poems by Australia's best rhyming poets. Ranging from convict days to the present, the poets include Patterson, Lawson Ogilvie and Morant...more details Format:CD-Audio
In Weelabarabak nothing is as simple as it looks, including the residents. But when they leap from the pages of these delightful comic stories straight into your heart...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
THE ABC BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY MUSIC is a comprehensive list of all Australian country music artists who are active and successful in country music or have made an indelible impression on the Australian country music scene. Also included are lists of major country music award winners and stars...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Jim Haynes
ISBN:9780733310461
Remember the art of the limerick - often bawdy, sometimes vulgar and always at its best with an unexpected twist. Jim Haynes has unearthed hundreds of new limericks...and it's all Aussie stuff. Well...more details Format:Paperback
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Jim Haynes and Russell Hannah
ISBN:9780733314995
Relive the spirit of a bygone era with Jim Haynes's All Aboard. With more than eighty evocative black and white photographs peppered throughout the text...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Compiled by Jim Haynes
ISBN:9780642590121
A unique collection of stories and poems that give first-hand, exciting accounts of the horror and sadness that was Gallipoli. Many have either never been published or have been out of print since the 1920s and include accounts written by soldiers in the trenches...more details Format:CD-Audio
A collection of dramatic, true stories and colourful accounts of our fascinating aviation history featuring personalities and pioneers, history...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Jim Haynes;Howard Aster
ISBN:9780889628465
Jim has been the subject of innumerable articles and profiles, from print to television. The Financial Times headline in 1999 stated "Alwaysopen to every experience and never one to be ashamed...more details Format:Paperback Pages:138
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HAYNES JIM
ISBN:9781742370903
Ever since he was a kid, Jim Haynes has been captivated by the exciting and colourful world of horse racing. Whether it's the love of a satin-coated thoroughbred...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Haynes Jim
ISBN:9781742370842
The Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids is the most comprehensive, authoritative and definitive book of poetry ever published in Australia for children. In this wonderfully eclectic collection the famous rub shoulders with schoolyard rhymes...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:389
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Haynes Jim
ISBN:9781742373270
Everyone knows at least one limerick. Here are all the limericks you can remember, and many you can't recall but wished you could - from childhood ones to some very adult ones. Jim Haynes has arranged more than a thousand limericks according to type. Witty and whimsical...more details Format:Paperback Pages:286
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Mike Haynes;Jim Wolfreys
ISBN:9781844671502
In "History and Revolution," a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years. Ranging from an exploration of the English...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:266
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Haynes Jim
ISBN:9780733326004
World War II was the most defining moment in Australia?s history. More than a million Australians served in campaigns against Germany and Italy in Europe...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Haynes Jim
ISBN:9781742376943
A collection of true stories taken from the lives of trucking men and women from Tarcutta to Alice Springs and all over Australia....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288