The Thorns and Beauty of a Childhood in the Adelaide Hills
'Aunty Hilda was a born countrywoman tuned in to Mother Nature from the start with a keen eye for detail character and sense of recall. Memoirs like this - from a farm setting humble yet charmingly adventurous a century ago - deserve respect within the increasingly urban sprawl of the Hills district she once explored so closely. ' ......
With the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II the last of that generation who lived through it are slowly departing the stage. Otto Gaczol and his life were profoundly shaped by that war. As an ethnic German boy who grew-up in pre-war Poland he lived through the Nazi occupation just 30 kilometres away from ......
‘This book illustrates just how destructive neoliberalism has been to ordinary citizens and how the two-party system has been corrupted by greedy politicians who have placed their own and corporate interests above those of the people they are supposed to be representing. Biggs writes clearly and convincingly. I thoroughly recommend ......
Aubrey believed that life was a game a test to be played in the best way he could. He was born when South Australia was seventy-three years old. Over a century later when he died a nation had been built people had endured two world wars and a depression technology had changed communications forever and society was accepting standards that ......
In 1755 the Portuguese capital Lisbon was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake and the resulting tsunamis and by fire. Perhaps 90 000 people died and 85% of buildings were shattered including the Royal Ribeiro Palace home to the archives of all Portuguese exploration in and around the East Indies including the voyages of Vasco da ......
Hay New South Wales 1923. Martha a classics scholar from the coast comes to teach in a man’s town in the outback. She falls in love with Henry a local man and they find their dream place on the river where they raise a family and breed a flock of sheep with fine wool. The unforgiving climate erodes their dreams. When Henry leaves ......
This book fills an important gap in the history and intelligence canvas of Singapore and Malaya immediately after the surrender of the Japanese in August 1945. It deals with the establishment of the domestic intelligence service known as the Malayan Security Service (MSS), which was pan-Malayan covering both Singapore and Malaya, and the colourful ......
No chemist no bank no library even in primary or secondary school and no mains electricity until the writer turned fifteen. Some might say he was disadvantaged. But from the perspective of some city children today he was far from being deprived.
Mallee Roots is an account of the rich community culture of Walpeup a small ......
A road trip along the Hume Highway with some opinionated voices from Australia's history
It’s a fact not yet universally acknowledged that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway preferably in the company of Captain Cook Henry Lawson Caroline Chisholm and Ned Kelly. Backseat Drivers is a hilarious and biting ......
