Gillian Dooley
Blubberland by Elizabeth Farrelly & Two Kinds of Silence by Kathryn Lomer
Racers of the Deep: The Yankee Clippers and Bluenose Clippers on the Australian Run 1852 - 1869 by Ralph P. Neale
In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier by Amanda Nettelbeck and Robert Foster
Sharyn Munro lives alone in a mudbrick house on a mountain near the Hunter River, many miles from the nearest shop or neighbour. In her late fifties, with arthritis slowly encroaching, she attempts to revegetate rainforest gullies, grows her own food and provides a refuge for wallabies, quolls and antechinus. Munro’s memoir, The Woman on the Mountain, sets out to explain this ‘foolhardy’ choice of abode.
... (read more)The Torch and the Sword: A history of the army cadet movement in Australia by Craig A.J. Stockings
Translating Lives: Living with two languages and cultures edited by Mary Besemeres and Anna Wierzbicka
Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish quest for the mysterious Great South Land by Miriam Estensen
Old Myths: Modern empires: power, language and identity in J.M. Coetzee’s work by Michela Canepari-Labib
In the 1980s, when it seemed that the situation in South Africa would never improve, debate raged about the responsibility of South African novelists to act as witnesses to, and opponents of, apartheid. Some believed that white writers, especially, should use their privileged position in the fight. Nadine Gordimer was prominent among those who felt it was essential to be, in J.M. Coetzee’s words, a ‘stripper-away of convenient illusions and unmasker of colonial bad faith’1 in the realist convention, rather than a spinner of postmodern metafictions.
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