Seumas Spark
Everyone gets at least one lucky break in life, or so the saying goes. For me, one of the luckiest was a childhood spent in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In 1966, my father left Melbourne for what was then the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, prompted by curiosity and the opportunity to work on kuru, a fatal neurogenerative disease affecting the Fore people of the Eastern Highlands. My mother joined him two years later, in 1968, and in PNG they remained until 1990.
... (read more)Black Duck: A year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe with Lyn Harwood
by Seumas Spark •
British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War camps, history and heritage edited by Gilly Carr and Rachel Pistol
by Seumas Spark •
Paul and Paula: A history of separation, survival and belonging by Tim McNamara
by Seumas Spark •
A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
by Seumas Spark •
Condemned: The transported men, women and children who built Britain’s empire by Graham Seal
by Seumas Spark •
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: More than a Bauhaus artist by Resi Schwarzbauer with Chris Bell
by Seumas Spark •
'I Wonder': The life and work of Ken Inglis edited by Peter Browne and Seumas Spark
by Nicholas Brown •