Hans Heysen Was Here
Best known for his pastoral scenes featuring statuesque gum trees, Heysen won critical acclaim when he first exhibited his Flinders Ranges paintings in 1928. Hans Heysen Was Here brings together a vast selection of these artworks inspired by the stark landscape that helped reawaken his love of painting.

Nature's Line
George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. When he attempted to adapt the pattern of settlement to climatic reality by defining the border of the zone of reliable rainfall, his repeated warnings about the threat of drought were scorned.

Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea
Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea evokes an embodied reckoning with Aboriginal women's domestic labour and servitude drawing from oral history and the State's official record.

Kidman
A beautifully illustrated hardback that celebrates the life of the man they called 'the cattle king', Australia's greatest ever rural entrepreneur. In the late 19th century, 13-year-old Sidney Kidman left home on a horse to make his fortune; over the next 50 years - and with single-minded determination - he would create a pastoral empire the size of France - the largest privately controlled pastoral empire the world has ever known.

Missionaries, Madness and Miracles Vols I and II
Missionaries, Madness and Miracles tells the intriguing but often tragic tale of the first missionaries Hermann Kempe, Wilhelm Schwarz and Louis Schulze who established the Hermannsburg mission (now called Ntaria), in Central Australia.

Aunty Ellen Trevorrow
Aunty Ellen Trevorrow is a proud Ngarrindjeri woman and a prolific, internationally acclaimed weaver with over 40 years of weaving experience. Weaving Through Time is a celebration of Aunty Ellen's unwavering dedication to culture, community and innovation in contemporary Ngarrindjeri weaving.

The Night Parrots
1922. In the remote Australian outback, Pastor Martin Gerlach's health fails. With no way in or out of his mission, his family and friends devise a plan to move him to the railhead at Oodnadatta.

Distance and Desire
Alex Frayne's second deep dive into the heart and soul of South Australia yields a stunning collection of bold new work. With an arsenal of cameras, his roving eye examines the exuberance, beauty and broken dreams of a place where both distance and desire conspire to offer the artist a daunting challenge - to visually describe this most paradoxical and baffling of states.

Whispering Wire
Interweaving history and travel, this entertaining story traces one woman's journey tracing the 3200-kilometre Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin. Constructed between 1870 and 1872, the line transformed Adelaide into Australia's communication hub, connecting the continent with the rest of the world and heralding the dawn of instant communication.

Honey Possum's Bush Cafe
It's the Grand Opening of Honey Possum's Bush Cafe. There's plenty of food for everyone. But no-one is coming! How will Easter Bilby help his friends?

Yura and Udnyu
Yura and Udnyu tells a fascinating history of a resourceful people. The beautiful, rugged north Flinders Ranges is the home of the Adnyamathanha. Their creation stories tell of their physical and cultural longevity in the region. However, their lives and community were seriously disrupted with the advent of British colonialism from the mid-nineteenth century.

Those Dry Stone Walls Revisited
Join Bruce and Kristin Munday as they traverse South Australia in search of stone walls, seeking answers and documenting the adventure. Discover historic masterpieces and insights into rural life in the years following European settlement. And meet the custodians of the walls, proud of this heritage, who shared their stories.

Those Wild Rabbits
A century ago Australia was home to 10 billion rabbits, thriving in their adopted home. Storyteller Bruce Munday finds the rabbit saga irresistible - the naive hopes of the early settlers, the frustration, environmental damage, cost to agriculture, dreams shattered, and the lessons learned and ignored.

Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrurla
This comprehensive profile of Yulyurlu illustrates her bold and expressive artwork, with its brilliant use of colour and ongoing graphic explorations of her Yam Dreaming complex from the Tanami Desert. Collectively these represent a major transitional moment in the history of the contemporary Indigenous art movement.

Calendar of Cakes
Lamingtons, anyone? Homemade, we mean, and created with love from the South Australian Country Women's Association's near-century of baking wisdom. Or perhaps it's a big day. How about a jaw-dropping five-layer pink ombre cake? Calendar of Cakes offers a cake for every week of the year, plus cakes for special occasions. Easy-to-follow recipes using each season's freshest flavours, combined with a comprehensive baking guide and SACWA cooks' tips make this your cake cookbook of the year.

Cheong Liew: Inside My Food
'We embrace diversity in Australia. I like to capture it on a plate.' - Cheong Liew. Cheong Liew, declared one of the world's ten hottest chefs at the height of his restaurant fame in the 1990s, is a pioneer of East Meets West fusion cuisine. His extraordinary ideas and creativity have made a profound mark on Australia's food culture. Here we unlock the stories and secrets behind 100 of Cheong's favourite dishes.

Goyder's Line in Kodachrome
This book displays images from the earliest known collection of Kodachrome colour photographs in Australia, and one of the earliest internationally. Colin Avery was one of the first photographers to use this revolutionary new film type, which marked the beginning of modern colour photography.

Mallee Boys
Sandy Douglas knows that life at fifteen is hard, but it's even harder when your mother died a year ago and nothing's gone right since. His brother Red, on the other hand, is eighteen now and working the farm. He's amped up on rage and always looking for a fight. And then there's their dad Tom. He does his best, but - really - he doesn't have a clue. As Sandy and Red deal with girls, dirt biking, footy and friendship, both boys have to work out who they want to be, without their mum around. The Mallee, where they live, may seem like the middle of nowhere, but it turns out this is going to be one hell of a year.
Honour Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers Award

The Kangaroo Islanders
Written in the mid-1850s before any official or more orthodox history of the South Australian colony had appeared, The Kangaroo Islanders is one of the few colonial novels that represents in fleeting glimpses some of the improvisational and interactive encounters between the colonisers and the colonised on the edges of the island continent.
Rick Hosking has annotated the book extensively with absorbing historical information and fascinating details of personalities and events, making this new edition of The Kangaroo Islanders a delight for both fiction fans and history buffs. And art lovers too, for the book includes pages of many of W.A. Cawthorne's best watercolours, reproduced in colour. A book for omnivores, indeed!

Ian W. Abdulla
For a painter who wished to be remembered as a 'quiet lad', Ian Abdulla created quite a stir.

Dune is a Four-letter Word
Dune is a Four-letter Word tells the story of Griselda and Reg Sprigg's pioneering desert adventures - not only in the Simpson Desert but all over the vast Australian outback.

Colonialism and its Aftermath
Colonialism and its Aftermath traces the ongoing impact of colonialism on Aboriginal individuals, communities and cultures, the disruptions and displacements it has caused, and Aboriginal responses to these challenges.