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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…