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Tanja Luckins

Tanja Luckins is a Melbourne historian and author who specialises in Australian Cultural History. In addition to The Games of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences and Memories of Loss and The Great War (2004), she has published Go! Melbourne in the Sixties (2005) and Dining on Turtles: Food, Feasts and Drinking in History (2007). Her current research project is an Australian Research Council funded History of Cosmopolitanism in Australia, 1850-2000.

Awards

Highly Commended, Fellowship of Australian Writers / National Literary Awards, 2004
Co-winner, Inaugural Australian Historical Association’s Serle Award for Best Post-graduate Thesis in Australian History, 2002

Books available from Fremantle Press

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In Your Garden

by Jeff Dorrington with illustrations by Shane Tholen

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