Here is the alternative history of Australia for kids and adults. The plot follows the arrival of the First Flock with its cargo of landed gentry peacocks, trooper pelicans and convict quails. With true Aussie spirit the under-birds rise up and follow our hero Bold Ned Hood and his mates Big Mac and Fryer Tucker along with our native wildlife in a romp through history. They fight tyranny and invent Aussie icons along the way. Household names icons like: One Day Croakit, State of Origin Toadball and the Bea-ute!

Each book also has a final educational ‘Did You Know?’ page outlining the real events.

Laugh and learn, buy and enjoy Kookaburra Tales.

$40.00 SET OF 10

This collection of small, full colour illustrated books that sum up life in a nutshell! They provide a ‘tongue in cheek’ history with cynical comment to have your sides splitting. According to David It all started to go wrong with the discovery of shopping and from there on we drowned in: technology, plastic, pollution, red-tape, commercialism and marketing, public liability and pin-codes! And did you notice, they also took the flavour out of our food and hi-jacked our beloved sport!

You must have these treasures for your coffee-table.

$30.00 SET OF 6

This is the rough and tumble story of David’s ten years in the Top End; Australia’s remote Cape York and Torres Strait in the 1970’s-1980’s. His job was to implement programs to keep our exotic diseases of animals like Foot and Mouth Disease and Rabies and his boss told him to ‘walk the beaches’ of this harsh and rugged and starkly beautiful area. He did! The book is full of characters he met along the way and told with an odd-beat humour. Rough as Guts also has plenty of drama and serious discussion on the future of such a fragile area.

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The Turning Circle is the thrilling follow up to Devil in my Kidneys and tracks ex commando Shaun Springfield’s desperate attempt to solve the riddle of a secret uranium mine in Australia’s remote Cape York. A deadly terrorist enemy surprizing becomes an ally in a final fight against fundamentalism in the Middle East. The plot sees the rise of a moderate faction to unite Islam and the women join to fight for their freedom from Sharia law. Others factions don’t want unification or peace and they, with formidable resources strike back in a desperate race for a penultimate objective, a nuclear arsenal.

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Devil in my Kidneys is a fast moving, page turning thriller that crosses the globe at a frenetic pace.Ex-Commando Shaun Springfield follows a trail of victims kidnapped for their body organs from the remote South Pacific through Vietnam to where the transplantation’s are taking place in Europe. The plot thickens and escalates to illegal arms and world downsizing through bio-terrorism as a Neo-Nazi organisation attempts to establish a new one-world order. Shaun and Interpol colleagues have 80 years of preparation to beat.

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Old Salty’s Misadventures in Paradise, represents a huge literary step for author David Daniel. A former D.P.I officer, his writing and cartoons on matters rural were well received.

Now a “Sea Change” has occurred. David has set course for a career as a writer. This volume is his first. The story line is simple, but the writing style expressive and hugely entertaining.

Old Salty’s Misadventures in Paradise is a volume which from the first page until the last, not only entertains but also extracts mirth from the reader.

David cleverly blends well known identities such as Cook, Bligh, Morgan and others with the events aboard “The Catch” a small yacht making its way up the Queensland coast.

It’s fun and so enjoyable that it is hard to put down.

$12.00