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Can a Duck Swim? by June Porter

As readers of this blog know, I enjoy reading books from other cultures as a way of learning more about the world and its peoples, but I have to tell you that reading Can a Duck Swim? by fellow Austra… more →

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Can a Duck Swim? by June Porter — 2 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 2 weeks ago: As readers of this blog know, I enjoy reading books from other cultures as a way of learning more ab … more →

Tags: 21st Century, Australian Literature, autobiography, Female authors, Life Stories, PORTER June, Read in 2013, Reviews, Wakefield Press

Kitty's War, by Janet Butler — 13 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 1 month ago: Somewhere in the archives of the War Memorial in Canberra, there is a small diary scribbled in penci … more →

Tags: Reviews, Australian Literature, Australian History, Life Stories, memoir, Australian Non Fiction., Female authors, 21st Century, UQP (University of Queensland Press)

The Daughters of Mars, by Thomas Keneally — 8 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 1 month ago: 2013 Miles Franklin Award The Daughters of Mars is a long book of nearly 600 pages, and when it fail … more →

Tags: Reviews, Australian Literature, Keneally Thomas, Male authors, 21st Century, Historical Fiction, Random House Australia, Read in 2013, 2013

They Hosed Them Out, by John Bede Cusack — 3 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 2 months ago: This new edition of the Australian war classic They Hosed Them Out by Australian air-gunner John Bed … more →

Tags: Reviews, Australian Literature, Australian literary fiction, Male authors, 20th Century, Wakefield Press, CUSACK John Bede, Read in 2013, They Hosed Them Out

1915, A Novel, by Roger McDonald — 9 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 3 months ago: I’m rather fond of Roger McDonald, it was he who christened me ‘Ambassador for Australia … more →

Tags: 20th Century, age book of the year, Australian classics, Australian literary fiction, Australian Literature, Male authors, McDonald Roger, Read in 2013, Reviews

New releases from Wakefield Press

Lisa Hill wrote 5 months ago: I’m not in the habit of promoting books I haven’t read, but I don’t have time to r … more →

Tags: 20th Century, 21st Century, Australian literary fiction, Australian Literature, Australian Non Fiction., CUSACK John Bede, Davis Richard, foodie books, Gifts for Booklovers

Nine Days, by Toni Jordan — 17 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 7 months ago: I was delighted to discover this new book from Toni Jordan because it’s a departure from her t … more →

Tags: Reviews, Australian Literature, Australian literary fiction, JORDAN Toni, Female authors, 21st Century, Text Publishing, Read in 2012, toni jordan

The Far Road by George Johnson — 5 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 8 months ago: I had to do a bit of a hunt to get hold of a copy of The Far Road by George Johnson OBE (1912-1970). … more →

Tags: Reviews, Australian Literature, Australian literary fiction, Male authors, JOHNSON George, 20th Century, Read in 2012, George Johnson, The Far Road

The Italian Girl, by Rebecca Huntley — 32 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 11 months ago: For someone who doesn’t read much memoir, I seem to have read quite a few of them lately! Rebe … more →

Tags: 21st Century, Australian History, Australian Literature, Australian Non Fiction., Female authors, HUNTLEY Rebecca, memoir, Read in 2012, Reviews

The Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women, by Susanna de Vries — 11 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 11 months ago: Don’t you hate it when a publisher re-publishes a book with a different title so that you unwi … more →

Tags: Reviews, Australian Literature, Australian History, Female authors, 21st Century, Harper Collins Australia, DeVRIES Susanna, Read in 2012, The Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women

Spirit House, by Mark Dapin

Lisa Hill wrote 1 year ago: Miles Franklin c1940 (Source: Wikipedia) Some years ago I saw a mini-series on ABC TV which featured … more →

Tags: Reviews, Australian Literature, Australian literary fiction, Male authors, 21st Century, Miles Franklin Longlists, 2012, DAPIN Mark, Read in 2012

Sensational Snippets: Spirit House by Mark Dapin — 1 comment

Lisa Hill wrote 1 year ago: I am reading Mark Dapin’s Spirit House, longlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin award, and just … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Australian literary fiction, Sensational Snippets, 21st Century, Male Authors, DAPIN Mark, Miles Franklin Award Nominees, mark dapin, spirit house

Tribute to our ANZAC Diggers — 3 comments

Catherine wrote 1 year ago: The First ANZAC Day – 15 Apr 1915 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age s … more →

Tags: History, cultural identity, Memoriums, customs, military, Remembering, Australia, Australian History, ANZAC Day

Online Combat Battalion Ambush

Lyndiman wrote 1 year ago: As part of a recent TAC night mission in ARMA OCB setup a road ambush on an enemy convoy. This was f … more →

Tags: arma 2, Online Combat Battalion, OCB, Combined Operations, Ace, acre, AMBUSH, Night, tanks

Vale Nancy Wake — 7 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 1 year ago: Australia, New Zealand, Britain and France alike are today mourning the death on August 7th of Nancy … more →

Tags: Biography, Obituaries, Nancy Wake (the White Mouse)

After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, by Evie Wyld — 1 comment

Lisa Hill wrote 1 year ago: Evie Wyld identifies herself as English, but there is an Australian sensibility about this novel tha … more →

Tags: Reviews, British Literature, Australian literary fiction, Debut Aussie Fiction, Female authors, 21st Century, Wyld Evie, Read in 2011, Evie Wyld

The Ghost at the Wedding, by Shirley Walker

Lisa Hill wrote 2 years ago: There can be little doubt that military history is one aspect of modern publishing is in good h … more →

Tags: Reviews, Australian Literature, Australian History, Australian Non Fiction., Asher Literary Award, WALKER, Shirley, Female authors, 21st Century, Penguin Australia

Over There with The Australians, by R. Hugh Knyvett — 4 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 2 years ago: Source: Project Gutenberg   Published in 1918, Over There with the Australians is a World War I memo … more →

Tags: Reviews, Australian Literature, Australian History, Life Stories, memoir, Australian Non Fiction., Australian classics, KNYVETT, R. Hugh, 20th Century

A time to tell - Australians at war in Vietnam. Battle of Long Tan 1966 — 2 comments

Tim Mansfield wrote 46 years ago: You see, there comes a time to tell . . .  When war veterans need to speak, and tell their own stori … more →

Tags: Veterans in Action, Vietnam, Nui Dat, Battle of Long Tan 1966


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