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Egyptian/Australian journalist, Daniel Nour, says this is the book for you if you've ever had someone try to arrange a marriage for you, have so many cousins you can't remember all their names, if your parents only show love through food and unsolicited advice, or if your family still thinks your 'roommate' is 'just a great friend'.
Growing up, SBS Insight host Kumi Taguchi thought her father was merely distant: reserved, obsessively frugal and – after her parents’ divorce – almost entirely missing. When he died, Kumi’s feelings about him and the Japanese heritage he had given her remained tangled.
In The Good Daughter, Kumi sets out to understand the dad she never really knew, and – along the way – herself.
Jacqueline Kent looks at the women between the early suffragettes and the feminists of the 1970s – their lives, their causes, their words, art and achievements.
Inconvenient Women traces these women's stories, shaped by the seismic social and political events of their time, and illuminates their immense courage and principled determination to change the world.
'Frog', a term of endearment for intensive care paramedics, derives from the notion that everything they touch croaks.
Sally Gould delivers a gripping and heartfelt memoir that dives into the unpredictable, often absurd, and sometimes heartbreaking reality of life as a paramedic.
'What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?'
Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret River in 2005, a bestseller based on the story of her convict ancestor, an early settler on the Hawkesbury River.
More than two decades on, and following the defeat of the Voice referendum, Grenville is still grappling with what it means to descend from people who were, as she puts it, "on the sharp edge of the moving blade that was colonisation".
Drawing extensively from unpublished and previously unseen written accounts, oral histories, letters, and archival materials, Peter Mitchell's Under the same Moon offers a deeply personal exploration of the lesser-known Australian World War II campaign in the Middle East. It captures the dramatic separation of a group of men from their Australia-bound convoy and their arrival in Java, teetering on the brink of collapse. The narrative also illuminates the fears and anxieties of families left in the dark.
Grantlee Kieza (Sister Viv, Banjo, Mr & Mrs Gould) writes about iconic Australian lives. His latest book focuses on the extraordinary story of Annette Kellerman – swimmer, daredevil, trailblazer and Hollywood star ...
Josie McSkimming, watched her older sister, Dorothy Porter, become an award-winning poet, but it was a family of complex dynamics.
Born to renowned barrister, Chester Porter, Dot, Josie and their sister, Mary, grew up in an unpredictable family home on Sydney's northern beaches. Each forged her own impressive career, but Josie and Dot sought very different escapes from their formidable father. Josie fell into (and out of) evangelical Christianity and psychotherapy while Dot found 'the Arts' and sex.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Miles Franklin was a very young woman when her first and most famous book, My Brilliant Career, was published (without the intended question mark after the second word!). It created a sensation amongst the literary folk of the land, but unfortunately her British publisher didn't make it easy for Australians to read it and the general readers were unlikely to get their hands on a copy. What earnings Miles gained from it were not enough to save her family's farm or to set her up independently, nor were her next attempts at novels successful.
Scorning to live on the bounty of some of the wealthy women who feted her, she decided to seek work as a housemaid and then use her experiences to write an expose on servanthood. This too was never published, but Kerrie Davies has mined the rich seams of the original manuscript to construct this period of Miles' life. She also deals with the years following, when Miles went to America and found work with organisations and trades union dedicated to female suffrage and bettering the lives of working women there.
I'm not always a fan of creative non-fiction, and I still have reservations, but Miles Franklin is a woman I have always greatly admired, and this deeply researched and carefully written book does bring to light a little-known period of her brilliant life. Lindy
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