Hesperian Press

From this Friday, November 1st, our summer opening hours will be 2-4pm Tuesday + Friday

IMPORTANT NOTICE! ROAD CLOSURE ON OATS ST + NEW OPENING TIMES + EMAIL WARNING

WE ARE STILL OPEN. Metronet, not satisfied with wrecking the rail and roads for some 2+ years, have announced the closing of the area of Oats Street outside our office. Access is from Rutland Avenue, with parking available on the corner of Rutland Avenue, including where signs say 'Authorised parking only' as this is allocated for our customers.

From November 1st, our summer opening hours will be 2-4pm Tues + Fri

This will channel erratic customer service to a concentrated period. And save us all from hot boredom. The majority of phone queries can be conducted via email to the satisfaction of all.
Discussions re publishing must be commenced with emails detailing the content of the manuscript.
Please note that those seeking to talk long will be placed at the end of the que. Ditto for those bringing in manuscripts without an appointment. At 81 time is short and our backlog great.

EMAIL WARNING
We have had several queries from overseas translators checking whether we are advertising for translators.
Criminally inclined Chinese operators are using a close adaption of our name in a account to solicit such work.
We have observed gangsters trying it on for our name previously.
In the past we have noted Chinese criminals involved in book stealing rackets in Western Australia.
They were just in advance of the criminally destructive policies of the State Library.

Scales of the Serpent. Kimberley Pearlshell in Aboriginal Australia - by Kim Akerman.

A magnificent volume presenting a detailed study of the Aboriginal use of pearl shell in both the traditional and contemporary worlds. This is already a classic. The jaded and faux art of the desert drawings is already rolling over with the freshness and strictly limited availability of pearl shell art.

ISBN 978-0-85905-987-9, (New, 2023), A4, Fully colour illustrated, french flap soft cover, section sewn, 190 pages, 750 grams, $110.00*

The Forgotten Art of Flash Jack Barrymore.
Works on Paper, Painted Pearl Shells and Engraved Boab Nuts, from the first half of the 20th Century. - Kim Akerman with Bruno Jordanoff.

In the first half of the 20th century Flash Jack was a well-known and respected artist who primarily catered for the crews and passengers of steam ships that serviced the coastal towns of Western Australia and sailed north to Singapore.

Working on paper, boab nuts and small pearl shells, Jack created images of Aboriginal life in the Kimberley. Sadly, by the 1970s his name had disappeared from the story of Kimberley indigenous art history. In The Forgotten Art of ‘Flash Jack’ Barrymore, Kim Akerman with Bruno Jordanoff examine Jack’s life and art, bringing together nearly a hundred works of art which had, until recently, been forgotten and place this extraordinary man as a crusader for Aboriginal contemporary art in the Kimberley.

ISBN 978-0-85905-993-0, (New, 2023), A4, Illustrated in colour, french flaps, 86 pages, 390 grams, $52.00*

The Hyland Circus by Peter J. Bridge.

Hyland's Circus was renowned across Australia. Horseman John Roberts married a daughter of Ah Pan and an Irish girl from Capetown, N Queensland.
The many children were trained as horseriders and circus performers. Some became renowned internationally.
Arriving in WA at the turn of the century they performed state-wide. An attraction was that many of the performers were blind from an inherited optical neuropathy passed on maternally.
Settling in Broome, Roberts disappeared on a horse trading trip up the Fitzroy River. Several years later his body was found with a bullet hole in the head.
The reason for his death was a mystery, known to very few, all now dead. All the police files have been destroyed.
Now for the first time in over a century the secret of his death is revealed.

ISBN 978-0-85905-900-8, (New, 2021), A4, 52 pages, heavily illustrated, 175 grams, $30.00*