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Max Allen, Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia
Max Allen, Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia Thames & Hudson, July 2020, 242 pp. (plus a further reading list), ISBN: 9781760761004, p/bk, AUS$32.99 Well-regarded wine writer Max Allen takes readers on a grand tour of some of the most important drinks…
Mark Dunn, The Convict Valley: the bloody struggle on Australia’s early frontier
Mark Dunn, The Convict Valley: the bloody struggle on Australia’s early frontier Allen & Unwin, 294 pp., ISBN: 9781760528645, p/bk, AUS$32.99 Mark Dunn opens his history of the Hunter Valley, The Convict Valley, with an observation from Lieutenant John Shortland. The naval…
Siobhán McHugh, The Snowy: A History
Siobhán McHugh, The Snowy: A History (Anniversary edition) Paperback, May 2019, NewSouth, ISBN: 9781742236223, 368pp., AUD$34.99 This month marks the 70th anniversary of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, the largest engineering project in Australia. This anniversary edition is updated from the 1989…
John Newton, The Getting of Garlic: Australian Food from Bland to Brilliant
John Newton, The Getting of Garlic: Australian Food from Bland to Brilliant NewSouth Books, 352 pp., ISBN: 9781742235790, p/bk, AUS$32.99 John Newtown's new book The Getting of Garlic: Australian Food from Bland to Brilliant is an impressive follow up to his 2016…
Adam Courtenay, The Ship That Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History
Adam Courtenay, The Ship That Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story of Australian Colonial History HarperCollins Publishers (ABC Books), 323 pp., ISBN: 978073333857, p/bk, AUS$29.99 In a genuine example of fact is stranger than fiction, journalist Adam Courtenay's book The Ship That…
Terry Smyth, Denny Day: The Life and Times of Australia’s Greatest Lawman
Terry Smyth, Denny Day: The Life and Times of Australia’s Greatest Lawman Ebury Press, 2016, 352 pp., ISBN: 9780857986825, p/bk, AUS$34.99 Award-winning writer Terry Smyth has taken on the extraordinary, and regularly overlooked, story of Edward Denny Day in Denny Day: The…
Anniversary Day, Australia Day, Survival Day, Invasion Day
Aboriginal Day of Mourning, 26 January 1938 Man magazine, March 1938 Courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (a429002 / Q 059/9) The debate about the name and date of Australia Day has been contested for a very long time, and…
David Hunt, True Girt!
David Hunt, True Girt The Unauthorised History of Australia. Volume 2 Black Inc Books, 2016, ISBN 9781863958844, RRP $32.99, Paperback ‘Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country…