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  • Fault Lines

    Australia's Unequal Past

    Edición de Christina Twomey, Seumas Spark ...
    A timely essay collection on injustice in Australia Australians love to talk about a 'fair go'. Yet inequality has been part of this sunburnt country since colonisation. From Australia's treatment of its First Nations peoples to its refugees, from the prejudice suffered by the LGBTIQA+ community to the lack of support for returned soldiers, our country has not always treated its citizens with ... Leer más

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  • Shadowline

    The Dunera Diaries of Uwe Radok

    Edición de Jacquie Houlden, Seumas Spark ...
    In September 1939 Britain declared war on Germany, and the life of Uwe Radok, a young German-born engineer working in Scotland, changed forever. Classified as an 'enemy alien', Uwe was deported to Canada on the Arandora Star. When the ship was torpedoed, drowning more than 800, Uwe and his brothers survived – only to be marched onto the infamous Dunera, bound for Australia.From 1940 to 1943 Uwe ... Leer más

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  • Voices of the Dunera

    Ernst Kitzinger, Exile and Essays on Internment

    Ernst Kitzinger was one of the great art historians of the twentieth century, and a refugee incarcerated in Hay, New South Wales during WWII. As a German Jew he had sought refuge in Britain in 1935, but in 1940 was one of 2,500 men arrested as ‘enemy aliens’ and deported to Australia aboard the HMT Dunera. Kitzinger rallied his fellow internees to communicate their peculiar circumstances. In ... Leer más

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  • Embracing the Ordinary

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    'In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain, Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely book' GuardianIt has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet, with characteristic wit and ... Leer más

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  • The Last Days of Roger Federer

    And Other Endings

    de Geoff Dyer ...
    One of Esquire's best books of spring 2022An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York).When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own ... Leer más

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  • Shrinking Violets

    The Secret Life of Shyness

    de Joe Moran ...
    The author of Armchair Nation and On Roads examines shyness in a"sparkling cultural history rang[ing]from Jane Austen to Silicon Valley" ( The Guardian).Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with embarrassment at being the unwelcome center of attention. And yet the cultural history of shyness ... Leer más

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  • I Will Come Back for You

    A powerful true story of wartime love and resilience

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  • The Pursuit of Laughter

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  • Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor

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  • English Humour for Beginners

    de George Mikes ...
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