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A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s1866. Will Stewart is one of many who have left their old lives behind to seek their fortunes in New Zealand's last great gold rush....
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2021-01-07
Format(s) : ePub
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By the author of Schindler's Ark and master storyteller, Thomas Keneally, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child to Australia. Like his brother Alfred before him,...
Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2020-09-03
Format(s) : ePub
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How did Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population go from being the objectified subjects of documentary films to the directors and producers in the digital age? What prompted these changes and how and when did this decolonisation of documentary film...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2020-04-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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How has militarisation come to define Australian valour? Why has the long shadow of World War I dominated our sense of patriotism?ON PATRIOTISM explores what it really means to love and serve your country. Paul Daley contemplates ways to escape the cultural binds that...
Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2020-03-31
Collection :
On Series
Format(s) : ePub
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**WINNER OF THE 2020 DANGER PRIZE**From the acclaimed author of THE SUITCASE BABY and THE SUICIDE BRIDE, the fascinating story of a series of horrific murders that began in 1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two decades.In December 1932, as the...
Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2020-02-25
Collection :
The Australian Crime Vault
Format(s) : ePub
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Adopting a political and legal perspective, Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand undertakes a transnational study that examines the demise of Britishness as a defining feature of the conceptualisation of citizenship in Australia, Canada,...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2019-07-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their...
Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2019-07-23
Format(s) : ePub
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The charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house in Sydney's Newtown in early 1904, leaving their children to a wretched fate. He wasn't the only man to murder his wife - or try - that year. Life in the big city...
Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2019-04-23
Collection :
The Australian Crime Vault
Format(s) : ePub
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A novel of breath-taking reach and inspired imagination, drawing on the discovery of Australia's oldest known human inhabitant. Shade lives peaceably with his second wife on the shores of a bountiful lake. Conscious of ageing but still vigorous, when called on by the...
Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2018-11-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Author Leo Kennedy is the great-grandson of Sergeant Michael Kennedy. Raised in the shadow of his great-grandfather’s murder, Leo witnessed the deep psychological wounds inflicted on successive generations of his family – and the families of other victims – as the Ned...
Editeur : Affirm Press
Parution : 2018-10-09
Format(s) : ePub
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