
The Gates of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences of Memories of Loss and the Great War by Tanja Luckins
On 11 November 1993, the 75th anniversary of the end of the Great War, an Unknown Soldier was entombed in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Digger Smith and Australia’s Great War: Ordinary Name – Extraordinary Stories by Peter Stanley
Digger Smith, one of the least known of [C J]Dennis’s works, has inspired this book. As I read Dennis’s Digger Smith I wondered about the real Diggers Smith.
Pompey Elliott by Ross McMullin
If one sets out to write biography, best to avoid saints and villains.
The Australian People and the Great War by Michael McKernan
Wars have shaped the history of nations.
The Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd
’When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were, and the souls of the dead from whom we spring, come and bestow on us in handfuls their treasures and their calamities.’
Gather the Bones by Alison Stuart
Paul turned his head on the pillow and watched as Evelyn Morrow, clutching her purse to her chest like a shield, followed the nurse past the rows of beds.
The Midsummer Women by Jean M Roberts
Hannah gripped the steering wheel with taut knuckles and peered through the car window as thick tendrils of mist swirled from the ground.
Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
The night I watch Athena Lui die, we’re celebrating her TV deal with Netflix.