Lilian Una Stringer is the narrator, privileged parents in early twentieth century Australia. she fails to live up to her father’s expectations, eventually garnering his abuse and anger. Her mother meanwhile wiles away her hours with a stopwatch, timing...
Summer, 1965. In the fictional town of Corrigan, WA. Late one night, thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin is startled by a knock on his window. His visitor is Jasper Jones. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is intriguing. And he needs Charlie’s...
An incredible look at the history of this erstwhile penal colonly, well written and rivetting
On a remote estate in New South Wales a man named Holland promises his daughter Ellen’s hand in marriage to whomever can correctly name the hundreds of species of eucalyptus tree that he has planted on his land. Ellen...
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