Allen & Unwin
We That Are Left
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Set in Melbourne during World War II, this novel tells the parallel stories of two women: Grace Fowler, who works as a secretary ...Read Review
Freedom Swimmer
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1968. Guangdong Province, China. Somehow, the 17-year-old Ming has survived a three-year famine, though he lost his family. He now lives in the village’...Read Review
Dreaming the Enemy
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Dreaming the Enemy starts when 19-year-old Johnny Shoebridge, an Australian country boy from a hard-working, traditional community, returns from Vietnam. A damaged soul, ...Read Review
Maggie’s Kitchen
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In London during World War Two, Maggie Johnson opens one of the many British Restaurants, an initiative of the Ministry of Food to ...Read Review
The Pearl-Shell Diver: A Story of Adventure from the Torres Strait
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It is 1898, and 13-year-old Sario lives on an island in the Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia. His family dive for bê...Read Review
Harry Mac
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South Africa is an exciting, dangerous place to live in the 1960s. Tom’s Dad is Harry Mac, a journalist using his pen ...Read Review
Racing the Moon
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It’s 1931 and Joe Riley, ‘on the wrong side of thirteen’, lives in Sydney, Australia. It’s the Depression, and Joe has a ...Read Review
The Railwayman’s Wife
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Anikka (Ani) Lachlan is the title character in this novel, which is set after World War II in Thirroul, a coastal town outside ...Read Review
Half the World in Winter
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Set in 1880, the novel begins with a train accident in which three people are killed. The life of bereaved father Thomas Brinklow becomes ...Read Review
Endurance
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Photographer Frank Hurley needs little introduction to anyone fascinated with early 20th century Antarctic exploration, or who has ever been moved by his ...Read Review
