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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…

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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…

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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…