Blogs in January 1970

Finding Jasper 1st January 1970

It is 1956, and twelve-year old Gin has arrived at the family farm, ‘Grasswood’, in the South West of Western Australia. She has been left in the care of her lively, idiosyncratic aunt, Attie, while her mother, an English...

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The Family at Misrule 1st January 1970

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The Middle of Nowhere 1st January 1970

When Mary Pinny dies from a snakebite, she leaves her young daughter, Comity, and husband Herbert in the Middle of Nowhere. As Stationmaster of the Kinkindele Repeater Station, Herbert Pinny takes great pride in his job: receiving morse messages...

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All the Rivers Run 1st January 1970

Philadelphia Gordon is an artist, a riverboat skipper and a beautiful, independent woman. Orphaned by a shipwreck, Philadelphia grows up on the banks of her beloved Murray River in Australia with her kindly uncle and strict aunt, seemingly destined...

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Blueback: a Fable for All Ages 1st January 1970

From birth Abel lives by, from and for the sea. Set in Western Australia, Abel dives and befriends a grouper fish living in a cove and he comes to rely on the advice from the fish, whom he calls...

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