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  • Sand

    by Robert Drewe & John Kinsella

    ‘Whenever I’m asked where I come from and what experiences have shaped the way I write, I think of sand. I come from sand. I am an envoy from the Sand People.’ Robert Drewe

    ‘That house you called your childhood home
    is gone, a set of units glow like chrome.
    They are surrounded by a kind of sand
    I can’t recognise’ John Kinsella

     Renowned…Read more »

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  • Remember Me

    by Liz Byrski

    At eighteen Liz was separated from her first true love. Across the miles she dreamt of the day he would return to marry her, but fate had other plans and love was lost.

    Thirty-seven years later, she picks up the telephone to hear a voice from the past that still has the power to stop her in her tracks. This is an extraordinary, true story of  love…Read more »

    Price $26.95 Add to cart

  • Among the Chosen: The life story of Pat Giles

    by Lekkie Hopkins & Lynn Roarty

    Pat Giles was dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged. As an ALP Senator in the Hawke and Keating governments, she entered Parliament, not as a raw recruit, but as an experienced trade unionist, policy maker, feminist campaigner and grassroots activist.

    This is the story of a woman whose determination never faltered, whose work ethRead more »

    Price $27.95 Add to cart

  • Among the Chosen: The Life Story of Pat Giles eBook

    by Lekkie Hopkins & Lynn Roarty

    Pat Giles was dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged. As an ALP Senator in the Hawke and Keating governments, she entered Parliament, not as a raw recruit, but as an experienced trade unionist, policy maker, feminist campaigner and grassroots activist.
    This is the story of a woman whose determination never faltered, whose work ethicRead more »

  • Hetty: A True Story eBook

    by Hetty Verolme

    This is one of the remarkable, largely untold, stories of the Holocaust, a story of hope. It is a heartwarming tale that traces the extraordinary struggle and survival of a family through those terrible years.

    Hetty was just twelve years old in 1943 when her family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands.

    Rounded up by…Read more »

  • Margaret Priest An Artist's Life

    by Philippa O'Brien

    This is the fascinating story of a young sculptor who helped bring modernism to Perth.

    Margaret Priest was educated at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art and won the Royal Scottish Academy’s award for best young artist before arriving in Perth in 1951.

    Here she found herself at the centre of a stimulating circle of academic immigrants and…Read more »

    Price $55.00 Add to cart

  • Orphans of the Living

    by Joanna Penglase

    In August 2004, Parliamentary senators wept as they presented Forgotten Australians, the report from the Senate Inquiry into the treatment of children in care. Half a million children grew up in ‘care’ in twentieth-century Australia, and most often these children lived with daily brutal physical and emotional abuse in the sterile environment of an institution…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids

    by Chris Coughran & Niall Lucy

    It is over thirty years since David McComb’s haunting music and lyrics inspired a generation. Now, thanks to sold-out tribute concerts Australia-wide and the remastering of the complete Triffids oeuvre, a new generation is discovering his life’s workRead more »

    Price $35.00 Add to cart

  • On We Go: The Wittenoom Way

    by Jacqueline O'Brien & Pamela Statham-Drew

    From the earliest days of the Swan River Colony on the western coast of Australia, the settlement depended for its survival and progress on individuals of character, courage and compassion. Prominent among these from the beginning have been the Wittenoom family. Nearly two centuries have passed since a widowed young clergyman, John Burdett Wittenoom…Read more »

    Price $49.95 Add to cart

  • Boy on a Wire

    by Jon Doust

    ‘From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer with a distinctive voice and uncanny ability to capture the bewilderment and burgeoning anger of a boy struggling to remain true to himself while navigating the hypocritical system he finds himself trapped in…what makes Boy on a Wire much more than a bleak coming-of-age…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

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Fremantle press and the Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre invite you to join us for an evening with first time novelist Deb Fitzpatrick, second time novelist A.J. Betts and third time novelist Kate McCaffrey.

Chaired by Lynne Cahill, The West Australian, Newspapers in Education.

When: 6.30pm, Tuesday 7 September 2010
Where: Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre, Old Prison Hospital, Cnr Knutsford and Hampton Road, Fremantle, (Parry St carpark)

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