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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…
Jacqueline Kent, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life
Jacqueline Kent, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life (Second Edition) NewSouth Books, 347 pp., ISBN: 9781742236025, p/bk, AUS$34.99 Award-winning writer Jacqueline Kent’s highly-acclaimed work A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life (2018) is now available in an updated second…
Stephen Gapps, The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony 1788–1817
Stephen Gapps, The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony 1788–1817 NewSouth (2018), 432pp, ISBN 9781742232140, p/bk, RRP: $34.99 Recent years have seen the publication of a good deal of compellingly sensitive histories of the early years of British invasion and settlement in…
Meredith Lake, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History
Meredith Lake, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History NewSouth Publishers, 2018, 439 pp. ISBN: 9781742235714, p/bk, AUS$39.99 Meredith Lake’s latest book, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (2018), is extraordinary. Lake’s authority as an historian, her skills as a writer and…
The Other Moderns: Sydney’s Forgotten European Design Legacy
Edited by Rebecca Hawcroft, The Other Moderns: Sydney’s Forgotten European Design Legacy, NewSouth Publishing, 2017, 352 pp., ISBN: 9781742235561, p/bk, AUS$49.99 Rebecca Hawcroft, a cultural heritage consultant, has brought together some of Australia’s most important commentators on culture and design for The Other…
John Newton, The Oldest Foods on Earth: A History of Australian Native Foods
John Newton, The Oldest Foods on Earth: A History of Australian Native Foods NewSouth, 304 pp., ISBN: 9781742234373, p/bk, AUS$29.99 The Oldest Foods on Earth: A History of Australian Native Foods (2016), from NewSouth Books, is John Newton’s vehicle for a 50,000-year…
Paul Irish, Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney
Paul Irish, Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney NewSouth Publishing, (May) 2017, ISBN 9781742235110, pp 1-149 pages, plus scholarly apparatus and Index, (pp. 150-207) Formats: Paperback, ebook, ePDF Walking along the foreshores of Rozelle Bay and Black Wattle Bay in Sydney’s…
Sydney's Lost Cemeteries
We're very excited here at Dictionary HQ this week as Dr Lisa Murray (our former chair, Dictionary contributor, City of Sydney Historian, renowned taphophile and absolute all-round legend) has just launched her book Sydney Cemeteries: A Field Guide (published by NewSouth…