Blogs in June 2020

Ruth 1st June 2020

From the lush Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea to working-class inner Sydney… Ruth follows the story of its protagonist, the only daughter of John and Alice Madison, coffee plantation owners. Set in the fifties and sixties, Ruth...

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April Fool’s Day 28th May 2020

‘It is a deeply personal story. I think I must have wept on every page. Each day as I sat down to write I would have to open the wound again, and frankly, it hurt like hell … Damon...

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Gould’s Book of Fish 28th May 2020

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman’s Land who...

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I Can Jump Puddles 28th May 2020

I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall’s story of his childhood – a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders,...

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My Place 26th May 2020

Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained within Australia’s indigenous culture. Sally Morgan traveled to her grandmother’s birthplace, starting a search for information about her family....

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