Capricornia
Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of …
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Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of …
Xavier Herbert was born in Port Hedland, WA, in 1901. He was educated there and in Fremantle, qualifying as a pharmacist. After World War I he travelled in Australia, reaching Darwin in 1927. There he worked as a railway fettler and visited the South…
View Books by Xavier Herbert"In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade." Thus begins Arnold Zable’s …
Teacher Resource EssayArnold Zable was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and grew up in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton. He has traveled and lived in the USA, India, Papua New Guinea, Europe, Southeast Asia and China, and now lives in Melbourne with his wife and son…
View Books by Arnold ZableThe 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 …
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