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Surviving Peace
Olivera Simić

How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is no longer spoken and your family is divided, not just by distance but by politics too? What happens when your old identity is taken from you and a new one imposed, one that you never asked for?

When Olivera Simić was seven years old, President...



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Taking The Revolution Home
Joyce Stevens

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC


Communist women who were active in political struggles of the inter war and war years reflect on the issues, the campaigns and the way in which their political commitment changed their lives. This is a history that allows contemporary activists to consider the ways they might learn from past struggles – both the defeats and the wins. The book includes interviews...



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Talking Up
Rosamund Else-Mitchell & Naomi Flutter (eds.)

What drives young women and what drives them mad? Twenty-something women talk about living their feminism. What they do, how they do it and why they choose to do it as feminists. The private collides with the public, anger with humour, desire with ideals. Writing themselves into the debate, these young women are talking up.



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Ballad of Siddy Church, The
Lin van Hek
I was a child with many aunties. The hotel was teeming with them ... I grew up with the poetry of aunties.

Lin Van Hek writes about the poetry of aunties in a novel that is at once thrilling and filled with the memories of wilful women. When Eadie Wilt disappears during the flood, everyone thinks she has drowned. But Siddy Church's granddaughter has more life to live in a household filled with...


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Coral Battleground, The
Judith Wright

… the Great Barrier Reef is still the closest most people will come to Eden.

–Judith Wright


The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of Queensland: 2000 kilometres of spectacular coral reefs, sand cays and islands, Australia’s most precious marine possession. Teeming with life, it covers 350,000 square kilometres.

In the late 1960s the Reef was threatened with limestone mining and oil...



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For the first time since he’d left the island he thought of the starlings massed at dusk in the winter trees behind the...


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Symphony for the Man


Sarah Brill

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In Defence of Separatism

In Defence of Separatism


Susan Hawthorne

In Defence of Separatism is a timely book. When it was first written in 1976, although it was an important subject of...


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