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Persian Blanket, The
by Tim Chappell & Janina Milek
Born in Poland in 1921 Janina Milek was transported with her family to Siberia in the freezing winter of 1940. She worked hard in the labour camps for nearly two years until the changing fortunes of the war offered relative freedom. There followed eight years as a refugee, in camps in Uzbekistan, Persia, Northern Rhodesia and Tanganyika. At every stage…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Semar's Cave
by John Mateer
In 1998, after President Suharto resigned and most expats had fled, John Mateer arrived in the Sumatran city of Medan with the intention of writing a handful of poems. But Mateer’s fascination with everyday life in Indonesia’s third largest city soon led to him chronicling his daily experience. The Indonesia of Semar’s Cave is not that of the television…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Split Lives: Croatian Australian Stories
by Val Colic-Peisker
Migrating to another country is comparable to surviving a war or becoming a parent: it splits life into two parts — before and after — and changes it forever. The stories collected in this book are told by Croatians who migrated to Australia between 1949 and 1996. Coming from big cities and small villages, and different walks of life, these men and…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Steadfast Knight
by Hal G. P. Colebatch
Sir Hal Colebatch, the son of poor immigrants, left school at the age of eleven, survived typhoid epidemics in South Australia and New South Wales, and after the discovery of gold in Kalgoorlie, journeyed to the goldfields, walking the last 80 kilometres across the desert. There, although too poor to own a typewriter, he worked as a journalist. Within…Read more »
Price $32.95
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If This Should be Farewell
by Adrian Wood
A deeply personal story of forced separation and reunion, If This Should be Farewell interweaves the journals and letters of Ernest and Mary Hodgkin, torn asunder by the fall of Singapore. From Changi prison to suburban Australia, their lives through the war could not have been more different, yet their love and devotion never wavered. Read more »
Price $29.95
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Messing About in Earnest
by Nick Burningham
Take a river journey in a small boat with Nick Burningham at the helm. Messing About in Earnest is a delightful blend of travel writing, history, geography and real-life adventure. Nick drifts down the Swan and Canning Rivers in his trusty boat called Earnest. His book takes the reader on the trip of a lifetime with whimsical and humorous stories…Read more »
Price $29.95
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My Dear Emma
by Robert Emeric Tyler
My Dear Emma follows Robert Tyler and his son, as they journey from England to Australia in the late 1890s. Elucidating the minutiae of everyday life, from washing to eating, mining to shopping, this is a delightful contemporaneous account of life on the Goldfields. Read more »
Price $29.95
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Shadow Lines
by Stephen Kinnane
Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East Kimberley and taken from her Aboriginal family at the age of five, and Edward Smith, a young Englishman escaping the rigid structures of London. In a society deeply divided on racial lines, Edward and Jessie met, fell in love and married against strong opposition. Despite unrelenting…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Straight Shooter
by T A G Hungerford
‘Nostalgic, wise, witty and very enjoyable…the “old” master, Hungerford, is a clear winner’ — Nancy Keesing, The Australian.
‘ … a valuable record of the life and times of a sensitive, humane man’ — Australian Book Review.
For the first time, this volume brings together T A G Hungerford’s three collections of highly-acclaimed, bestselling…Read more »
Price $29.95
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Tom & Jack
by Geraldine Byrne
Tom & Jack is one of the rare success stories of the early days of the Kimberley cattle industry. A veteran drover and cattleman, Tom Kilfoyle partnered his kinsmen the Duracks in exploring and overlanding to the Kimberleys. His son Jack was an enterprising and mischievous man. He was the defendant in charges ranging from cattle duffing to breach…Read more »
Price $22.99
From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things