PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jacquie Houlden is Uwe Radok's daughter. An educator and co-founder of an education technology company, she has also written a children's book, Felix and the Flea Circus, about a flea running away from the circus to find his own dog. At home in the height of the Covid lockdown, she opened a tin containing her father's wartime diaries and began transcribing them, uncovering a surprising story. Seumas Spark is an Adjunct Fellow in History at Monash University. He is a co-author of Dunera Lives: Profiles and Dunera Lives: A Visual History and co-editor of 'I Wonder': The Life and Work of Ken Inglis.
It is rare to read a diary which so vividly conjures up both time and place. In Shadowline Uwe Radok depicts the world he faced as a detainee in Australia during World War II and his struggles to understand and come to terms with his sexuality. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the ways in which Australia experienced that part of our history. -- Dennis Altman 'Much of Australia's history involves 'boat people'. Notable amongst them, the Dunera Boys. I thought I knew the story well until I read the diaries of Uwe Radok. Revelatory and remarkable!' -- Phillip Adams AO It is rare to read a diary which so vividly conjures up both time and place. -- Dennis Altman
