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Elizabeth Anstice Baker, Mary Tenison Woods and Gertrude Abbott
Margaret
Press
In records of the years between 1840 and 1970 there can be found everywhere examples of women who were known for their sheer goodness as well as for their strength of purpose and creativity. Elizabeth B...
Deborah
McCulloch, Donna McSkimming, Elizabeth Biff Ward
Encountering this volume of poetry may feel something like coming home to find a fond friend at your doorstep. The poems captured here came to life together ...
Brimming with anticipation, humour, desire and strangeness these stories will quicken your senses and make your spine tingle.
In Thrill Me, thirty-one award-winning and emerging Australian storytellers write to thrill and move you. Read on if you dare. These writers will leave an unshakable imprint on you. ...
Cricket stories abound in Thwack!, from Jack Hobbs' adventures Down Under in the summer of 1907–08, to Bradman, Lillee, Warne, the Chappells, 'Tibby' Cotter, Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd. Imagine yourself in the stands watching Bradman versus Warne at the top of their form. Read the intriguing rise of Billy Birmingham, The 12th Man. What is lyricist Tim Rice's cricket story? And start with the most painful whack of them all - the story of Bumble and the pink box. ...
Recreation and moral issues in colonial South Australia
Denis
Molyneux
The Eight Hour movement, established in the middle of the 1800s, began the transition for workers from an industrial revolution work ethic to a more balanced approach to the working week. The young colony of South Australia was at the forefront of these changes. ...
Amber Turk lived with an inoperable brain tumour for 12 months before dying in November 2003 at the age of 27. During her final year she wrote a journal documenting her emotional journey ...
Nine-year-old Henry Page is a club-footed, deep-thinking loner, spending his summer holidays reading, roaming the melting streets of his suburb, playing with his best friend Janice and her younger brother and sister. Then one day Janice asks Henry to spend the day at the beach with them. He declines, a decision that will stay with him forever. ...
Nine-year-old Henry Page is a club-footed, deep-thinking loner, spending his summer holidays reading, roaming the melting streets of his suburb, playing with his best friend Janice and her younger brother and sister. Then one day Janice asks Henry to spend the day at the beach with them. He declines, a decision that will stay with him forever. ...
Nine-year-old Henry Page is a club-footed, deep-thinking loner, spending his summer holidays reading, roaming the melting streets of his suburb, playing with his best friend Janice and her younger brother and sister. Then one day Janice asks Henry to spend the day at the beach with them. He declines, a decision that will stay with him forever. ...
Acclaimed South Australian children's poet Kristin Martin and artist and illustrator Joanne Knott have teamed up in To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?, a stunning collection of children's poetry with a focus on the natural world.
Poems truly are all around us, and in this collection Kristin shares her love of nature and sense of fun on every page. Joanne's exquisite illustrations bring the animals and natural environment to magical life. ...
