Note: This section of the website is being continuously updated and expanded. New book reviews and notes will be added soon after being published in the Boab Bulletin. Previously published ones will be uploaded when time permits.
Akerman, Kim. (organiser and annotator) Photographs from the frontier, Kimberley 1910-1911: Taken by the first Swedish scientific expedition to Australia. From prints held by the the National Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweden. (2017)
Ashton, Ross. Ochre-I want to paint. (2017)
Basedow, Herbert. Narrative of an Expedition of Exploration in North Western Australia. 2009
Bear, Eddie and Hoskin, Robert. Return to Majaddin : A Kimberley Homecoming. (2017)
Birch, Reginald. Wyndham Yella Fella. 2003
Bloemen, Antoine. No Regrets: A Bicycle Dreaming from Belgium to Broome. 2014
Blundell, V. and Woolagoodja, D. Keeping the Wanjinas Fresh. 2005
Boulton, J. (editor). Aboriginal Children, History and Health: Beyond social determinants. 2016
Bridge,Ben. Travels and Adventures of Ben Bridge Throughout Western Australia and Northern Territory. 2012
Bridge, Peter J and Gail Dreezens (editors). The Mount Minnie Mystery & A Midnight Melee. 2008
Bridge, Peter J and Gail Dreezens (editors). The Drover's Scrapbook. 2008
Bridge, Peter J (compiler and editor). Paddy the Flat: The Life of Patrick Leahey Australian hero, prospector, publican and fighter for Digger rights. 2010
Bridge, Peter J. William Campbell Charnley 1882-1966: A Bibliography. 2011
Bridge, Peter J. Fighting the Kimberley: The 3 Australian Corps Kimberley Guerilla Warfare Group 1942-1943. 2012
Broome Arts & Music Foundation Inc. Kimberley Cultural Trail. 2005
Burges, Lockier Clere senior. Pioneers of Nor'-West Australia: Pastoral and Pearling. 2008
Byrne, Geraldine. Tom & Jack: A Frontier Story. 2003
Campbell, Jill. Bill and Mary Mac : From the Kimberleys to Cocklebiddy and places in between. (2014)
Charnley,W. The McGuire Mystery; Major the Outlaw; "Pigeon"; and The Tragic Pearl. 2010 For a bibliography of Charnley's writing, see Bridge, Peter J.
Clement, Cathie & Gresham, Jeffrey & McGlashan, Hamish (editors and compilers). Kimberley History: People, Exploration and Development. 2012
Coate, Yvonne. Mother O'Neill: Widow of the Kimberley Goldfield. 2012
Connell, Scotty.100 Things to See In The Kimberley. 2019
Coopes, Nerina. Pompey's Story: A Man for His Time. 2015
Crawford, Ian. We won the victory: Aborigines and Outsiders on the North-West Coast of the Kimberley. 2001
Dambeemangaddee People. (Compiled and written by Valda Blundell, Kim Doohan, Daniel Vachon, Malcolm Allbrook, Mary Ann Jebb and John Bonman.) Barddabardda Wodjenangorddee : We're Telling All Of You. (2017)
Daylight, Bessie & Peters, Glenys & Evans, Tara Denise & Balacky, Mary Rose. The Adventures of Erin the Turtle. 2014
de Burgh, W J (editor). On Australia's Rim: J C de Lancourt's Travels in Australia 1924-1929. 2006
Dell, John (editor). The Western Australian Naturalist, Vol. 27, No. 4, April 8, 2011
Donaldson, Mike. Kimberley Rock Art Volume One: Mitchell Plateau Area. 2012
Donaldson, Mike. Kimberley Rock Art Volume Two: North Kimberley. 2012
Driscoll, D.M. "Mick" Close Calls in the Kimberley. 2015
Edwards, Hugh. Barunga. (2015)
Flinders, C.E. as told to Christie, J.F. Kimberley Days and Yesterdays: 45 years in the Great Nor-West. 2016
Flood, Josephine. The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People. 2006
Ganter, Regina. Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia. 2006
Godbehear, Harold S. Kimberley was God's. 2011
Gomm, Kevin. Red Sun on the Kangaroo Paw. 2012
Gregory, Alison (with illustrations by Mark Wilson). Rodeo Darcy . 2005
Gueho, Russell. Icons of the Kimberley: An A to Z for Guides and Travellers. 2003
Gugeri, Michael. God before Gugeri : Luggers, trucks & water bores & other Kimberley stories. 2014
Hayes, Thea. An Outback Nurse. 2014
Heseltine, Margaret. 8 Whiskey Charlie Victor. 2003
Hill, Len. Droving with Ben Taylor. Up and down the Canning Stock Route in 1946. 2009
Holman, Janet (Compiler). Legend of the Kimberley: The Life and Stories of Lawson Holman-Flying Doctor and Flying Surgeon. 2004
Horden, Marsden. King of the Australian Coast: the Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathhurst 1817-1822. 1998
Hornabrook, Meg. The El Questro Story . 2012
Kersh, Norah. Dry Grass Whispering. 2010
Johnson, Bob. Itchy Feet: The life and travels of "Happy Bob". 2112
Knight, Olive. as told to Teri-ann White. The Bauhinia Tree: The Life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight. 2015
Kreczmanski, J.B. and Birnberg, M. Aborginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert and Kimberley Region. 2004
Laurel, Hylton. The Cowboy Frog (Kawupayi Walak). 2003
Laurie, Victoria. The Kimberley: Australia's Last Great Wilderness. 2010
Loane, Bill. The Koolama Incident in the Timor Sea, 1942. 2004
Long, John. Swimming in Stone: The Amazing Gogo Fossils of the Kimberley. 2006
Lowe, Pat. In the desert: Jimmy Pike as a boy. 2007
Lowe, Pat. Our Friends the Termites. 2015
Marchant, Leslie R. The Papal Line of Demarcation . 2008
McCombe, Mary (with editing by Joan Rogasch). Memoirs of a Nurse, Hall's Creek, Western Australia, 1921. 2010
McIntyre, Claire. Suicides and Settlers. 2008
Marshall, Lucy. Reflections of a Kimberley Woman. 2004
Mjoberg, Eric. Among Wild Animals and People in Australia (Bland Vilda Djur och Folk i Australien) Translated by Margareta Luotsinen and Kim Akerman. 2012
Morton, Steve and others (editors). Desert Lake: Art, Science and Stories from Paruku. 2013
Murray, Ian with Marion Hercock. Where on the Coast is That? 2008
Nailon, Brigida. Emo and San Salvador. 2005
Nailon, Brigida. Encounter, The Past and Future of Remote Kimberley. 2010
Neville, A.O. Golden Land of Silence. A tale of the Kimberleys. 2010
Newling, Pip. Knockabout Girl: A Memoir. 2007
Ngarjno, Ungudman, Banggal and Nyawarra with edting by Jeff Doring. Gwion Gwion: secret and sacred pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal people of Australia. 2000
Niall,Brenda. True North: The story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack 2012
Norman, G V. A Pearler's Wife : Chapter extraction from A Pearling Master's Journey . 2009
Norman, J. E. deB, and Norman, G. V. A Pearling Master's Journey in the wake of the schooner Mist. 2007
O'Grady, Rosemary. The Longest Day. 2010
Owen, Chris. 'Every Mother's Son is Guilty": Policing in the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905. 2016
Pawsey, Margaret (Translator) and Akerman, Kim (Editor). Cologne to the Kimberley: Studies of Aboriginal Life in Northwest Australia by Five German Scholars in the First Half of the 20th Century. 2015
Petri, Helmut. The Dying World in Northwest Australia. 2011
Petri, Helmut. The Australian Medicine Man (Der Australische Medizenmann). Translated by Ian Campbell, edited by Kim Akerman. 2014
Playford, Phillip & R Hocking & A Cockbain. Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin, Western Australia . 2009
Preston, Diana & Michael. A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist and Buccaneer. 2004
Reed, William (Bill). The Long Road to Broome. 2016
Richardson,Gaye (Compiler). Nurses With Altitude. 2008
Roe, Paddy with editing by Stephen Muecke. Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley. 2016
Rogasch, Joan (compiler). Lil's Story: The Story of Sister Mary Elizabeth Rogasch. 2010
Rogasch, Joan & Dulcie Andrew. The garden of myth: life at the AIM Hospital, Halls Creek, Western Australia, 1918-21 and 1946-48 . 2012
Sanz de Galdeano, Seraphim. Metamophosis of a Race: Kuini and Kulari Tribes of Kalumburu Mission. 2006
Sanz de Galdeano, Seraphim. Memiors of a Spanish Missionary Monk. 2006
Scott, A. W. (Sandy). Australia's Kimberley Coast: its landscapes, biodiversity and human history. 2018
Scott, Raymond Thomas. The String of the Last Wreath: Annotated Diary 1896 to 1899 of Henry Charles Berand. 2013
Scourfield, Stephen. Other Country. 2007
Scourfield, Stephen. As the river runs. 2013
Shedley, Don & Meg. Black & White Best Together: The Bethel Story. 2007
Shelley, James J. et al. A field guide to freshwater fishes of the Kimberley. 2018
Smith, Barry. Battle for the North. 2012
Stacy, George & Charnley, William with editing by Peter J Bridge. The Pirates of the Ethel. 2016
Streeter, Edwin W. Pearls and Pearling Life. 2008 (facsimilie of 1886 edition)
Swift, John William. A New Zealand Gold Seeker's Adventure in Australia 1886-1901. 2015
Thomson-Dans, Carolyn. North-West Bound from Batavia Coast to the Kimberley. 2007
Tickner, Neville W. Last of the Packhorse Stockmen: Warwick Edwards: the city kid goes bush. 2003
Toussaint, Sandy (editor). Kimberley Stories. 2012
Wainwright, Norma and Wright, Keith. Kununurra: From dreams to reality. 2006
Wall, Deborah Ruiz and Choo, Christine. Re-imagining Australia: voices of Indigenous Australians of Filipino descent. 2016
Ward, Craig with Morris, Ian. The Kimberley: endemic frogs, reptiles, birds & mammals. (2017)
Warner, Dave. Before it Breaks. 2015
Welch, David M (compiler). Kimberley People: Stone Age Bushmen of Today . 2009
Welch, David M. Aboriginal Paintings at Munurra, Kimberley, Western Australia. 2014
Welch, David M. Aboriginal Paintings of Drysdale River National Park, Kimberley, Western Australia. 2015
Welch, David M. From Bradshaw to Wandjina: Aboriginal paintings of the Kimberley region, Western Australia. 2016
Wells, Janet. They even paid me: Raw reflections of a third generation Kimberley cattleman. 2015
Wells, Janet. Ready for anything. 2005
Wilson, Ian. Lost World of the Kimberley: Extraordinary glimpses of Australia's Ice Age Ancestors. 2006
Wright, Jacqueline. Red Dirt Talking. 2012
Young, Howard. Crocodile Coast Crash. 2003
Zell, Len. Wild Discovery Guides-Kimberley Coast. 2007
Favourite Kimberley Books. Vercoe, Jack.
Favourite Kimberley Books. McGlashan, Hamish.