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Armageddon: Two Men on an Anzac Trail by Paul Daley
Category: Travel
A unique literary and pictorial portrait of a tumultuous, exciting and enduringly dangerous part of the world. Armageddon. Nazareth. Damascus. The names of these places come straight from the Bible. They are the lands of the Pharaohs, the Crusaders, Lawrence of Arabia. But the forbidding deserts and mys ...Show more
Beersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War by Paul Daley
Category: Military
It was a glorious triumph of arms for Australian forces, a romantic moment of dash and bravura that stood out in the tragedy of World War I. Yet it barely registers in Australia's national consciousness. In October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade took part in what is now known as ...Show more
Beersheba : A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War by Paul Daley
Category: Military
The Battle of Beersheba, a redeeming win for the Anzacs who lost at Gallipoli, has slipped through the cracks of Australia's historical consciousness. Why are Australians so much more content to commemorate a glorious defeat than we are to celebrate such a resounding, against-the-odds, victory? The suns ...Show more
Beersheba Centenary Edition: Travels through a forgotten Australian victory by Paul Daley
Category: Military
A hundred years ago in October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade participated in what is now regarded as the last great successful cavalry charge. Waving bayonets overhead in the dying light, they raced across six kilometres of exposed ground in Palestine, surprising the well-entren ...Show more
Canberra by Paul Daley
Category: Travel | Series: City
An implicit sense of public service and 'otherness' has now come to permeate Canberra's identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance even, that the rest of Australia can hate us - but they'll never know how good it is to live here. Canberra is a city of orphans. People arrive temporaril ...Show more
Canberra : Updated Edition by Paul Daley
Category: Travel | Series: City Ser.
An exploration of the city Australians love to hate, this book shows that there is more to the capital of Australia than politics, geometrically designed roads, and mid-century architecture. Canberra is a city of orphans: people arrive temporarily for work, but stay when they discover the unanticipated ...Show more
Challenge by Paul Daley
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Fast-paced Australian political fiction, Challenge unfolds over three days in an atmosphere of treachery and deceit, amid a looming federal leadership challenge. Opposition leader Daniel Slattery is a cross between Mark Latham and Holden Caulfield. He's a former sporting hero from the wrong side of the ...Show more
Collingwood: A Love Story by Paul Daley
Category: Australian History
Every year when Collingwood plays Essendon in the AFL's annual Anzac Day match, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire carries an old horseshoe into the team's changing rooms and passes it around. The players examine it as he relates the great footy club story behind it. It's early in the twentieth century ...Show more
Golf Architecture by Paul Daley
Category: Sport
This title contains interviews with the leading golf architects from around the world. It includes forty-two absorbing and lavishly illustrated golf-architecture-based essays, along with six picture essays. It is a true smorgasbord of information for students of golf course architecture and golf book co ...Show more
Golf Architecture - A Worldwide Perspective by Paul Daley (Editor)
Category: Sport | Series: Golf Architecture Ser.
The golf course is a work of art, plush with beauty and functionality. When the two elements combine, the result is nothing short of magnificent. The international who's who in golf architecture explores the many facets of the craft while delving into the world's most breathtaking models. Illustrated wi ...Show more
Golf Architecture - Volume 3 by Paul Daley
Category: Sport
A smorgasbord of courses! Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, Volume Three, incorporates forty-seven absorbing golf-architecture-based essays by leading golf architects and knowledgeable golf writers, supported by in excess of 350 images from notable photographers and artists. Paul Daley has ...Show more