Before email and fax machines, businesses communicated via telex or cable. Business stationery carried a telex number or cable address. For Halstead Press, the cable address — later adopted as its staff journal name — was Fragment. We're keeping the name alive with these Fragments, where Halstead Press authors air the ideas behind their books. Fragments Tribute to Oswald…

  An Incomplete History of Community Radio: 2SER's 46 Boxes of Stuff   “You name a discipline, and you’ll find it represented in the log of names that have walked through 2SER’s doors.”Professor Monica AttardOAM, Walkley winning journalist &Co-Director of the Centre for Media Transition   (more…)

    "Everyone has a story about Cadbury."   (more…)

  In their first book, ambulance heroes Billy Be Safe and Becky Be Careful team up with mischievous Artie the emu and other bush characters. An outdoor swimming adventure should be heaps of fun on a very hot day. But with so many dangers along the way, will someone get hurt? Or will Billy save the day? “A book that…

  "What must be considered a near-definitive catalogue of Australian housing competitions both ancient and modern . . . an amazing insight into a miry corner of architectural history that even our most cherished architecture-demics have hitherto overlooked." Houses Magazine (more…)

A Newcastle Sun headline On the morning of 23 October 1944, braving an unseasonably cold wind and looming clouds, a large crowd gathered outside the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Queens Square on Macquarie Street, hoping to witness what the Adelaide News called “one of the biggest legal smash hits since Ned Kelly”. (more…)

"This book is for everyone, especially for scientific researchers, their leaders and supervisors, and decision makers involved in funding science research to discover what worked, and to contribute to a scientific revival in Australia." - The Globe (more…)

New Long Bay Jail book covers death of Rockdale prison officer and Caringbah nurse being held hostage Pat Kennedy's new book will be landing in stores at Easter. To buy an exclusive copy from the author this month, contact him through his website.

  Russell Cox held me hostage at Long Bay before he and I were both shot in 1975. I have waited a long time to read the correct version of events of what happened on that harrowing day … At last the truth about ‘The Bay’ and its many criminals and characters is on our shelves. —Former Long Bay Prison…

  The saga of France's role in the exploration of and development of the Australian continent remained a well-kept secret for almost two centuries —Bloomfield To coincide with the national maritime exhibition: The Art of Science, Baudin’s Voyagers 1800–04, currently on display at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, comes the new paperback edition of Professor Noelene Bloomfield’s popular book,…