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Antonia Pesenti & Hilary Bell, Summer Time

Antonia Pesenti & Hilary Bell, Summer Time NewSouth, October 2019, 44pp, h/bk, ISBN: 9781742236070, RRP: AUD$24.99 Summertime is a tale of reminiscence, of the best summer activities that prompt happy thoughts. and hint at possibilities for any family looking for a summer…

Joy McCann, Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean

Joy McCann, Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean. NewSouth Books (2018),  256pp., ISBN 9781742235738, p/bk, RRP: $32.99   The Southern Ocean, the world’s least known and least visited ocean, is the only ocean which flows completely around the earth, unimpeded…

Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan (eds), Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre

Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre, edited by Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan NewSouth Books, 215 pp., ISBN: 9781742235752, p/bk, RRP AUS$34.99 On 10 June 1838 twelve men, “in an unprovoked act of violent terror” (p. xi), committed an atrocity known today as the…