Browse, read and download books written by early Australian authors and poets.

Featuring both fiction and non-fiction books with stories about early life in Australia, observations, explorers, convicts and settlers, bushrangers, and Australian’s at war.

Australian Literature

John of Daunt

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Australian Poetry

The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse

The Australian Girl, and Other Verses

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Australia at War

Round the World with the A.I.F. in Days of War and Peace 1918-1919

Soldiers’ Poems

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Bushrangers

“Black Caesar” First of the Bushrangers

John Caesar was a powerfully built West Indian negro, who had come to the colony in the first fleet, on March 14, 1785, he had been convicted at Maidstone and sentenced to seven years penal servitude and transportation.

History of Australian Bushranging

Australian heroes or villians?: Michael Howe, the self-styled ‘Governor of the Ranges’; Matthew Brady, the first of the ‘gentlemen’ bushrangers; the notorious Martin Cash and the original ‘Wild Colonial Boy’, Jack Donohoe and more. Illustrated.