About Ovenden Lodge

Ovenden Lodge c1911

Ovenden Lodge Publications produces and sells books, mainly about Port Adelaide (but it also offers a wide range of publishing assistance for other authors and writers). More recently, we have also begun to produce short films.

The business is run by John Couper-Smartt from his home near Gawler, South Australia. The name “Ovenden Lodge” is taken from his father’s childhood home near Westerham in Kent.