On Our Selection

After a two-mile water-haul, Joe reports dead “nater-dogs” floating in the spring—and the family falls silent over tea. On the Creek, even a bucket of water can bring bad news.

Twenty years after arriving from Stanthorpe, the narrator remembers a bush selection of slab walls, starry roof-cracks and trees big enough to swallow a family’s plans. Dad sees rich soil, valuable timber and perhaps gold; the family sees endless clearing, a waterhole that runs dry, and no horse or plough when it is finally time to plant. With the crop and their hopes at stake, Dad has to find another way to break the ground. Can three borrowed hoes turn this hard-won patch of wilderness into a harvest?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.