Our Story IS THE REASON FOR OUR BOOKS
We grew up along the Diamantina River in north-west
Queensland, a river named after the exotic and famed wife of Queensland's first
governor. A woman whose glamour so entranced all that her name was also
attached to both a town (Roma) and a Brisbane street (Roma St), while her place
of birth (the isle of Ithaca) was the perfect name for a nascent Brisbane
suburb and little creek running out of the foothills of Mt Cootha.
The Diamantina River, however, is a thousand miles from the luxuries of
Brisbane. It's slow and steady progress across the sandy claypans of western
QLD down to Lake Eyre (
