Backroom Press: Books from the Kimberley, Australia

Books from the Kimberley | Online bookshop

Backroom Press books can also be purchased at several Broome outlets.


Calling for Ideas

Author Event in Broome 2025

We are planning to host an author’s event here in Broome this year and would love your input. We hope to include both a writer’s workshop and a Q&A session. 

Which Australian author would you love to come to see?

Tell us about the best author’s events or writing workshop you’ve been to and what made them so good?

What would you like to workshop with a great author?

Please send your ideas to us at hello@backroompress.com.au and let’s get this event started! 

Calling for ideas

We would love to hear from you!


Mrs Millar’s Frogs

“Frogs! I love frogs, frogs in Broome. They live in my house in every room.”

So begins the story of Mrs Millar and her much loved frogs. Follow the adventures of these little characters as they hop and hide in Mrs Millar’s house.

This is a new edition of an old favourite, which has never lost its appeal for young readers.

Grab a copy today!

Mrs Millar's Frogs book


Have you got a Kimberley book you would like to publish?


The Art of Fire

Where Australian Indigenous art and traditional life meets science.

Jimmy Pike grew up in the Great Sandy Desert, where he learnt about fire, its uses and its dangers. He shares some of this knowledge through his minimalist drawings and compact, vivid descriptions.

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Backroom Press is a micro-publisher located in Broome, a small Kimberley town in the north of Western Australia. It was set up to publish entertaining and educational books from the region.

Backroom Press was founded by three friends in 2006, and incorporated three years later as a Not-for-Profit Association.

We work to foster understanding between different cultural groups, support community educational projects and participate in public events such as festivals and workshops.

We aim to delight, entertain and enlighten through the publication of books that resonate with authentic Kimberley voices telling Kimberley stories.

Our online bookshop features a growing list of children’s and adults’ titles representing the diversity of the region. You are sure to find something for everyone.

If you wish to submit a manuscript for consideration, please refer to our guidelines.

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