This is a story of the goldfields of Western Australia. Not only of the gold industry as it was, but also the lives of many of the people involved.
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Author:PRICHARD, Katharine SusannahSummary: - Author:MCINNES, GrahamSummary:
With vivid recall of detail, the author describes life in a suburb of Melbourne during his boyhood in the 1920's.
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Alice Lewin survived the war as a young child. After decades of burying her past she decides to visit the Kindertransport archive, where she learns of the existence of a possible relative, Henry Lewin. She travels to Australia to hear...
- Author:KENEALLY, ThomasSummary:
The true story of an officer from the First Fleet and his production of "The Recruiting Officers" - Australia's first theatrical venture. But this is only part of an enthralling story of this time.
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A collection of the best of the author's columns from the "Australian" newspaper. He deals with issues that worry contemporary Australia, especially in the fields of business and social life.
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The story continues in describing the pitfalls of the business world involving a prawn fishing disaster in the Gulf of Carpentaria and experiences in Karratha at the onset of the gas project. It concludes with the death of the author...
- Author:LOVELL, AvonSummary:
real-life thriller. An ingenious swindle at the Perth Royal Mint nets a fortune in gold bullion, and the police turn on the three Mickelberg brothers, who are sentenced to long gaol terms. But the prosecution was based on a mass of...
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Author:PASH, ChrisSummary:The history of the sucessful 1970s campaign to end whaling in Australia by closing the last whaling company operating out of Albany, Western Australia, told from the point of view of both whalers and anti-whaling activists.
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A dramatic true story of survival in the north Kimberley region of Western Australia after the MV Koolama is attacked and bombed by three Japanese float planes in February 1942.
- Author:COWAN, PeterSummary:
This novel re-creates the cultural life and landscape of the 1940's in Perth and Melbourne and re-assesses the achievements of the post-war world.
- Author:PARK, RuthSummary:
An account of life in the backstreets of Sydney's working class neighbourhoods during the early part of this century.
- Author:JINKS, CatherineSummary:
In 1814, Dorothea Brande leaves her quiet Devonshire home and accompanies her officer husband, Charles, to the colony of New South Wales. To escape the harshness and brutality of existence, and with help from her manservant she develops...
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Author:HUGHES, RobertSummary:The author follows convict transportation from the squalor of Georgian England to the grim prison hulks. Of those who survived the first fleets, many were to suffer starvation, disease and extreme brutality in the Colonies.
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For over 20 years the Blue Mountains have hemmed the settlers into a narrow strip of coastline too restrictive for their needs and numbers. But Jenny Taggart, now married, still retains her dreams of fertile plains and pastures. Sequel...
- Author:CORRIS, PeterSummary:
A detective thriller set in Sydney and introducing Cliff Hardy, private investigator, who is paid to unravel problems the police can't or won't handle.
- Author:SHAW, PatriciaSummary:
As soon as Hans-Albert Ritter arrives in Bundaberg to take on his role as pastor for a settlement of German emigrants, it's not long before trouble starts brewing in the community.
- Author:SHUTE, NevilSummary:
John Turner, injured in an accident, sets out to find the three people who were involved with him. Was one of them a murderer?
- Author:CORRIS, PeterSummary:
Crawley's misgivings about the validity of his mission to a South Pacific island prove well founded as he fights to escape with his life.
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Author:SMITH, BernardSummary:The author, a well-known Australian art critic, recounts his boyhood experiences growing up in an Irish Catholic family in Australia.
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Absorbing mystery of the Australian outback. Another "Boney" sleuth story.
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