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‘Lowitja’
Told she’d never make anything of herself, Lowitja O’Donoghue, Australian of the Year, AC, CBE, DSG and recipient of the papal honour of Dame of […]
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Adelaide
Adelaide is a tremendously interesting little book. Whether you are from Adelaide, or a visitor to Adelaide, there is a great deal of information, written […]
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Aaron Smith has written a brutally honest expose of Australian social and political behaviours toward Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal people. With great insight he […]
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While listening to Kathy Mexted in a radio interview, two things became clear; they were her passion for flying and her desire to encourage women […]
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Cricket and the elite division of the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) SAS unit seem to be far apart, but in reality, thanks to Anthony ‘Harry’ […]
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Since their earliest years, Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell had spent time listening to family stories, enthralled by the adventures of their ancestors. Their 4 […]
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What a joy it is to read the words of master storyteller Thomas Keneally. He has presented this Historical fiction, The Dickens Boy in such […]
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Reading this incredible story from a male perspective was far more than interesting, it was amazing, and informative reflecting on a small segment of history […]
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Shakespeare’s work has infiltrated our language; lines from his thirty nine plays and 154 poems and sonnets have become popular sayings. As with Coronavirus of […]
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Alice Cotton’s tiny baby daughter, Eadie is secretly given away by her grandmother; Alice is devastated. Her desperate quest to be reunited with her missing […]
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Digging deep into the dark heart of Sydney, King’s Cross in particular, during the dissolute years of what could almost be considered as unbridled debauchery […]
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Australian/Vogel Literary Award Winner 2020 (AU) for an unpublished manuscript A Treacherous Country from KM Kruimink, is set in the 1840’s and moves from England […]
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The old saying ‘an army marches on its stomach’, which has been attributed to Napoleon and Fredrick the Great, is still valid today and it […]
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To endure the German invasion of Jersey, islanders needed resilience, fortitude and ingenuity. However, to survive the five years of occupation, Hedy Bercu, a young […]
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The tone of Stone Sky Gold Mountain is sombre as the author Mirandi Riwoe looks back at Australian History in 1877. The Palmer River in […]
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Budgerigar
The joy of reading comes home to you strongly when you open this book with the rather bland title Budgerigar. Looking at the book’s cover, […]
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Kokoda is a name known to many Australians as a place of great courage; of acts of selfless bravery, mud, brutality and now, more than […]
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Why does Yoel Blum, famous Israeli writer, break his promise to his deceased mother never to visit Amsterdam? First he travels to The Netherlands to […]
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Cookbooks are glorious, sumptuous creations that temp and entice, regardless of whether they are ever used as an actual cookbook, or simply enjoyed for what […]
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History provides a abundant backdrop for a wealth of historical fiction with the Empress Josephine, beloved of Napoleon Bonaparte, with her colourful life and lasting […]
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RAAF Black Cats
Time creates history and time allows access to information kept tucked away, out of sight in various Nations Archives, information which when it was recorded […]
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Australia is not just an island, it is festooned with a myriad of smaller Islands, 8,000 in total, some inhabited, many more listed as wild […]
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Language changes over the generations and centuries with so many wonderful, rich, and incredibly funny words, at least in the world of modern language, becoming […]
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Hillary’s Antarctica
Sir Edmund Hillary,as he eventually became, was a humble man born into a New Zealand family living in Auckland in 1919. He was a quiet, […]