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HISTORY
TAKING FLIGHT
Kristen Alexander
RRP $39.99
OUR MAN ELSEWHERE
From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert
Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in 1928, Lores
Bonney was hooked. She took to the Australian and
international skies and braved the challenge of longdistance flying.
Thorton McCamish
RRP $39.99
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to
Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war
correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories
of exploration and conservation...and yet forgotten?
In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves
into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure, Alan
Moorehead.
THE CONVICT’S DAUGHTER
Kiera Lindsey
RRP $32.99
PAPER: A WORLD HISTORY
Mark Kurlansky
RRP $39.95
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DUE 1ST MAY
From the author of Cod and Salt, Paper is a
definitive history of paper and the astonishing
ways it has shaped today’s world. Mark Kurlansky
challenges common assumptions about
technology’s influence, affirming that paper is here
to stay. Paper will be the commodity history that
guides us forward in the twenty-first century and
illuminates our times.
BRUCE POSTLE: WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA
This is a dramatic and fast-paced biography of a
currency lass born to parents who were emancipated
convicts. When 15-year-old Mary Ann Gill attempted to
elope with gentleman settler John Kinchela in 1848,
they became the focus of a national scandal which
was nearly their undoing.
THICKER THAN WATER
Cal Flyn
RRP $29.99
DUE 1ST MAY
Bruce Postle
RRP $29.99
Cal Flyn discovered that her ancestor Angus McMillan,
mythologized as a great explorer and pioneer of early
Australia, was also the leader of a number of massacres
of Indigenous people. Thicker Than Water is part memoir,
part travelogue, part histor