Given its present rise in popularity, if you haven’t been to Broome recently, you’re obviously hanging out with the wrong crowd. Even the Queen – always so prescient – visited Broome in 1963. Broome has suddenly undergone another rebirth: as a tourist destination, historical and cultural centre, and as the home of Magabala Books. While Sydney has Williamson and White, Broome has given us the immortal musicals Bran Nue Day and Corrugation Road.
Broometime by Anne Coombs and Susan Varga
Sceptre, $29.95, 294 pp
The White Divers of Broome: The True Story of a Fatal Experiment by John Bailey
Pan Macmillan $30 pb, 301 pp
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