Tears of the Moon by Di Morrissey
$21.00 AUD
Category: Broome History
Tears of the Moon is the spellbinding prequel to Kimberley Sun from Australia's favourite storyteller with the new novel Arcadia out soon. Two inspiring journeys. Two unforgettable women. One amazing story.Broome, Australia, 1893: It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when yo ...Show more
Broome Through the Lens of Master Photographer Fernande Kuypers by Fernande Kuypers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
After Darkness by Christine Piper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Broome Fiction
The winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2014It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war.While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia.
The Last Pearling Lugger by Mark Dodd
$36.99 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today
Mark Dodd arrived in Broome in 1978 as a 20-year-old looking for adventure, after working his way across northern Australia. There he fell in with the crew of the fabled DMcD, one of the last of the old wooden pearling luggers that still worked the Kimberley coast diving for pearl shell. He came aboard ...Show more
The Divine Wind by Garry Disher
$18.99 AUD
Category: Teenage
Alice, Hartley, Mitsy and Jamie are kids growing up in Broome before the Second World War. Their lives, although very different, are bound by friendship. Hartley and Alice Penrose are the children of an uneducated pearling master and a cultivated, disgruntled mother. Mitsy Sennosuke is Japanese, the dau ...Show more
The Diamond Dakota Mystery by Juliet Wills; Marianne Van Velzen (As told to)
$28.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
This extraordinary true tale follows the disappearance of more than 20 million dollars worth of precious diamonds during World War II. In 1942, as the Japanese army advanced on Java, two wealthy businessmen entrusted a Russian aviator, Captain Ivan Smirnoff, with a small, mysteriously-unmarked package, ...Show more
Charlie's Swim by Edith Wright
$27.99 AUD
Category: Children
Age range 9 to 12During WWII after the Japanese invasion of Java, more than 1000 refugees from the Dutch East Indies, many in flying boats, passed through Broome, which was a major refuelling point and a significant Allied military base. On 3 March 1942 Broome was attacked by Japanese fighter planes, ki ...Show more
Broome's One Day War
$7.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
The story of the Japanese Raid on Broome 3rd March 1942
Wallking Jetty to Jetty Stories of Broome by Nyamba Buru Yawuru Ltd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Broome History
Picture the bustle of the Roebuck Bay foreshore, where a ?forest? of luggers dominated the landscape, children played off the jetties and amongst the mangroves, and Asian, Aboriginal and European workers mingled in the work sheds and divers? quarters.Set in the heart of Yawuru country, Walking Jetty to ...Show more
The Pearler's Wife by Roxane Dhand
$22.99 AUD
Category: Broome Fiction
From the high seas to the deep seabed, from the latticed verandahs of Buccaneer Bay to the gambling dens in Asia Place, The Pearler's Wife is a stunning debut, inspired by a small yet pivotal moment in Australian history. A distant land. A dangerous husband. A forbidden love. It is 1912, and Maisie Port ...Show more
A Pearling Masters Journey - SIGNED by J. E. deB. Norman and G. V. Norman
$110.00 AUD
Category: Pearling Yesterday and Today