A picture book about a jockey in a whale-race.

Spring Creek

This handy introduction to Hydrology, not to mention Hydrochemistry, explains the differences between a spring and a brook, when a body of water stops being a stream & starts being an actual river, whether it is a tributary river or not, and what is the difference between a Scottish burn and a small Australian creek, apart from locality.  

He went with Vasco Da Gama

The sad tale of a childless woman whose fiancé was a sailor on a voyage of discovery. 

The Forest

A children's picture book exploring the different flora and fauna one can find in a forest.

How to Hide a Lion

Lucy and her cat Lion play hide and seek, but she can't find enough suitable places for him. 

When We Were Very Young 

A retired people's group share reminiscences of their childhoods and the sorts of word & board games they played as children, finding there were some they could still play actively, together, and with enjoyment. 

The Buccaneer Explorer

A child's guide to pirates over the centuries, including costumes, weapons and nicknames.

Hairy Maclary

The comical misadventures of a feisty Scotsman whose hair and beard grow super fast.

The Runaway Settlers

A discussion about differences through the centuries, between idealistic Pilgrim Fathers and more runaway types of settlers in the Great Age of Exploration, until now.

Rum: a distilled history of Colonial Australia. 

The humorous tale of the small Australian outback town of Rum, and its failure to become a thriving rum distillery

[I have no idea how rum is made!]

Cart and Cwidder

A story about Cwidder, a master of harp playing & also a master craftsman, of a beautifully made Welsh Harp, normally played in a famous Welsh orchestra, which was moved around from location to location where they played, with the aid of a specially made cart to protect it. This Welsh harpist's dream is to play the Cwidder, at the King's Coronation, in Westminster Abbey, one day. 

 Mutiny on the Bounty

@coracle: [I have no idea how rum is made!]  

[Touché. I have no idea what or who a cwidder actually is, either]

You've no idea how funny your reply was when the title was grabbed from a recent book, all about when rum was the currency of Old Sydney Town, & where the present Sydney Mint now is, which was once the early colonial hospital, known as The Rum Hospital, built with the proceeds from trading barrels of rum, before we developed our own currency, in the early 19th century.    Yes, rum is extracted from sugar cane, grown mostly in Queensland. Like gin, vodka, schnapps, Scotch, brandy & whiskey, it goes through a process of distillery, well known in Bundaberg, Qld & the Caribbean, still exporters of rum.

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 Mutiny on the Bounty

When a swarm of hungry flies lands upon a tasty chocolate-coated coconut bar lying in a field, dissension soon erupts within their formerly close-knit ranks as a group of rebels attempt to commandeer the entire Bounty for themselves...

(For anyone who may not know, Bounty bars are a popular sweet in Australia and the UK — I don't know if they're sold in the US or other parts of the world as well.)

Gone With the Wind

The distress suffered by a gardener when abnormally strong winds destroy her patiently-grown garden. 

My Friends Are Dying

A children's book about a small gardener with a patch of morning glories and a patch of evening glories.

The Mystery of the Old Violin

When the best quality violins, violas, cellos & other stringed instruments were made by the Italian Stradivari family, such musical instruments are still hotly sought after. Was the missing old violin, everyone is looking for, really made by Stradivari, and what was its story?  

The Poisoned Crown