Australian History
It is a brilliant summer day in July 1935. The scene is a house called Green Ridges, near Hastings, Sussex. Two women, seated but not relaxed, face each other across a formal drawing room. This is the first time they have met. Nettie Palmer, Australian writer and journalist, has come to stay overnight with the novelist Henry Handel Richardson.
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by Joel Deane •
26 Views of the Starburst World: William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788–91 by Ross Gibson
by Andy Lloyd James •
People on Country: Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures edited by Jon Altman and Seán Kerins
by Richard J. Martin •
Tales from the Political Trenches by Maxine McKew
by Jane Goodall •
Davis McCaughey: A Life by Sarah Martin
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe •
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies with Gary McKay
by Peter Edwards •
Bradman’s War: How the 1948 Invincibles Turned the Cricket Pitch into a Battlefield by Malcolm Knox
by Bernard Whimpress •
Sydney by Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington & From New Left to Factional Left by Alan Barcan
by Richard Broinowski •
Canberry Tales: An Informal History by Granville Allen Mawer
by John Thompson •