Great Australian Bush Festival Stories

Great Australian Bush Festival Stories by Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh is a delightedly offbeat collection of true stories that captures the humour, ingenuity and heart of regional Australia. If you love Australian non-fiction with a yarn-spinning voice, you’ll feel right at home here.

Marsh hits the road to explore outback festivals where communities turn the everyday into spectacle: beer-can regattas, yabbie races, tuna tossing, inflatable duck challenges and more. Along the way, he introduces the larrikin characters, stubborn competitors and volunteers who keep these events going—often in spite of chaos, weather and the occasional spectacular stuff-up. It’s a vivid portrait of bush life, rich with mateship and the kind of eccentric tradition you couldn’t invent.

Perfect for readers who enjoy rural humour, travel writing, Aussie culture and short, easy-to-dip-into stories.

Add it to your cart for a warm laugh and a window into the bush at its most inventive.