Jim Haynes

The Big Book of Australian Yarns is master storyteller Jim Haynes's comprehensive collection of factual and fascinating stories and humour. The yarns range from the poignant to the hilarious, from the ridiculously Australian to the unexplained and spooky.

With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history....

The Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive work collected from memory, mates, word of mouth, and decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history....

Australia's national character and spirit have always been defined, rightly or wrongly, by 'the bush'....

Alcohol, usually beer, is an integral part of Australian culture. Australian writers from Henry Lawson onwards praise, blame and generally celebrate the demon drink....

The stories and verses in this collection are not just anecdotes, racing history pieces or rehashed feature articles from sports journalists; first and foremost they are good literature....

Skilfully researched and told in Jim Haynes's warm and witty style, Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia brings to life well-known and unknown figures from Australia's history as a penal settlement. This is the true story of the colonisation of Australia....