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The flowers flared up from the ground unconquerable. The unrepentant gaiety of the weed, the burning…
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The flowers flared up from the ground unconquerable. The unrepentant gaiety of the weed, the burning…
Kylie Tennant was born in Manly, NSW, in 1912. In the course of her working life she was employed as a journalist, barmaid, publicity officer for the ABC, church sister, reviewer and lecturer. She considered it important to gain first-hand knowledge …
View Books by Kylie TennantIn the first century A. D. Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial …
David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including Ransom, The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary…
View Books by David Malouf"One of the most illuminating books ever written on Australian history." - The Bulletin In The …
Geoffrey Blainey has been Professor of Economic History and Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, and Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard. His other books include Triumph of the Nomads, A Land Half Won and Our Side …
View Books by Geoffrey BlaineyAs the bells in the tower of Sydney's General Post Office chimed eight o'clock on the evening of …
Ken Inglis is Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University. His books include The Stuart Case, This is the ABC, Whose ABC? and Sacred Places, winner of The Age Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History in…
View Books by Ken InglisAnyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and …
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong, and was educated there and at Melbourne University. She taught in Victorian secondary schools until 1972, when she was dismissed for answering her students’ questions about sex, and had to start writing …
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