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John Franks' remarkable debut novel, Echoes, is primarily a modern story of love, challenge and relationships. Interwoven through this contemporary tale is an intriguing historical narrative, the significance of which left me guessing right up to the book's ending.The reader follows Marek, born in Australia of Polish parents, as he navigates the establishment of his new construction business in Newcastle, Australia, and at the same time begins to fall in love with Gwynne, a practical single mother hesitant of risking all that she has worked so hard to achieve. Family events in Poland take Marek to the land of his parents' birth where he learns some surprising truths and experiences a deluge of unfamiliar emotions. Ultimately Marek must return to Australia and attempt some resolution in both his business life and his, at times, confounding personal relationship.Echoes is beautifully and sensitively written without ever being sentimental or saccharine. A lovely debut novel - touching, poignant and effortlessly readable!

This poetry collection explores the dark, scary, solitary journey from Maiden to Mother. This transformation is one you traverse blind, one whose process is known by every other mother, but one of which nothing is spoken. It is one that is filled with love, loneliness, and learning; one that can rip you raw and cuddle you close. Women, all women, are divine creatures. They are portals to new lives and, thus, new worlds. They are all artists. Their default mode is "creator". Leticia realised that she could only know this now because of a specific rite of passage: Motherhood. This extraordinary work shines a light on one of the most powerful moments in women's lives: Hidden, private, and blessed.

Andrew R. Cunningham had a passion for cricket and he has taken historical events and characters and re imagined them. He has produced a fascinating novel concentrating on certain aspects of the lives of individual players prior to and after the First IX Cricket Tour of England in 1868.He has used his power of language to create and define characters in such a way that the reader will be entertained, whilst being introduced to perhaps unknown aspects of events in early days of colonial Australia, that were indeed real, and impacted on this story of the first Australian International team.His evocative and clever writing describes aspects often forgotten or not previously represented by this story. He uses compassion and humour as he gently provokes the reader to think seriously about the past injustices practised by society at the time. His writing also celebrates the prowess, skills and sporting successes of the Aboriginal cricketers. His empathy is encapsulated in the title, 'Cry sorrowful for Bullocky.'

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SECOND EDITION Revised 2022A history of colonial Australia, not of the famous and heroic, but of the small people, the anonymous people who were the heartbeat of a growing nationIn this first book of the series, A HISTORY OF A CATHOLIC FAMILY, the author sets out on a journey through Australia's colonial history with his ancestors, who gradually take on flesh and blood from the bone-dry official documents. All his ancestors are from British Isles, all arriving by the 1830s, two on the First Fleet in 1788. Most are from southern England: Wiltshire, Lancashire, Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Huntingdonshire. Astonishingly, four are from two little villages close by each other in Wiltshire: Semley and Donhead St Mary.A small Irish contingent of two convicts and one free settler come from Dublin, Monaghan, and Donegal. A farming family of four from Aberdeen Scotland, the Burgesses, literate people with a keen sense of decorum, make up the full count. It is surprising how much he finds out about them all-joys, successes, and tragedies. Their lives are anything but dull.James Joseph Wilson, who narrowly escaped the gallows and was surprisingly literate for a man thrice convicted of burglary, arrived in Port Jackson on board the Prince Regent in 1827. The colonial authorities assigned him to Robert Lowe, one of the Colony's early landholders. Lowe sent him to Mudgee in north-western New South Wales to shepherd his flocks. Young 18-year-old hutkeeper James Joseph was one of the first inhabitants in the Mudgee area.He teamed up with fellow convict Michael Jones to look for land. They married sisters Jane and Elizabeth Harris, daughters of free settlers, and travelled further north-west to the Coonamble area, 330 miles from Sydney, to set up their farms. The two freed convicts and the Harris sisters became his great-great-grandparents.There are nine convicts in the direct line of his ancestors. He traces their lives against the social and historical background of colonial Australia, presenting a very different picture from the view usually found in school history books. They all thrive, taking advantage of their second chance. This book is the story of their redemption.Besides offering the reader an interesting, sometimes gripping family story, he reveals the cultural continuities in which his ancestors acted and how they responded to those continuities in a totally different physical environment. He seeks to discover to what extent the outlook, culture and character of his ancestors worked to make his extended family and him what they are. And, finally, perhaps most importantly, he sketches a picture of the way Australia developed as a new people and a new nation. In 1950, most Australians had an ancestry like his.This first book is a history of colonial Australia, not of the famous and heroic, but of the small people, the anonymous people who were the heartbeat of a growing nation-people like his ancestors.Since the publication of Prison Hulk to Redemption in 2016, the author has made many adjustments and additions, besides rewriting passages that could have been clearer. In preparing this second edition, besides thoroughly revising the text, the author stresses the social and cultural continuities to bring out his ideas on what it means to be a people and a nation.

Jim Connelly revels in the histories and mysteries of his native Gippsland (Round and About in Gippsland, Stories of old Gippsland, Growing up in Garfield). Here he writes of twelve famous Australians who have called Gippsland home. They range from scientists (Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet) to writers (Mary Grant Bruce) to boxers (Lionel Rose). All have walked the green green grass of Gippsland.

Mientras se dispone a capturar su imagen para un collage, un fotógrafo conversa con Antonio Azzopardi, el primer emigrante maltés en Australia. Basado en hechos históricos, este libro rememora una época de cambios que llevó a un hombre dispuesto a la aventura por el camino del éxito en una tierra lejana.Nº 142Ñ de la serie Leyendas bilingües. Este libro está escrito tanto en española como en malté-australiana, un curioso dialecto del maltés que se desarrolló en Australia.Créditos AdicionalesTraductor malté-australiana: Mark CaruanaNacido en Sliema (Malta), Mark Caruana emigró a Australia en enero de 1973 y es miembro activo de la comunidad maltesa de Sydney desde 1975. Ha escrito artículos sobre la historia oral de los emigrantes en Australia. Mark ha grabado en casete y vídeo, tanto en inglés como en maltés, más de 120 entrevistas de historia oral, principalmente con los primeros colonos (1912-40) de las Islas Maltesas que se establecieron en Australia. Este enfoque de trabajo en equipo se vio reforzado cuando se estableció contacto con el Dr. Barry York, de la Biblioteca Nacional Australiana de Canberra, cuya formación formal en historia y sus mayores oportunidades de grabar a los primeros colonos malteses, como parte de sus estudios académicos para obtener un doctorado en Historia de la Migración Maltesa, abrieron nuevos horizontes para ampliar el entonces limitado conocimiento de la presencia maltesa en Australia. Actualmente está co-investigando con Marianne Potts nee Vidal en un próximo libro sobre una biografía de los ANZACS malteses que se unieron al ejército australiano y neozelandés. Durante muchos años, Mark estuvo involucrado a nivel de comité con la Maltese Welfare NSW, la Maltese Cultural Association of NSW y la Salesian Past Pupils & Friends of Don Bosco NSW como cofundador y miembro. Actualmente es el Presidente de la Asociación Don Bosco, que se reúne regularmente para confraternizar y recaudar fondos para las misiones salesianas. Mark también fue vicepresidente del Consejo de la Comunidad Maltesa de NSW (2016-2019) y fue responsable de la construcción de una biblioteca de recursos y un centro de archivos donde se guarda material histórico sobre asociaciones y migrantes malteses para futuros investigadores.En el Día de Australia 2020, Mark fue galardonado con la Orden del Mérito de Australia (OAM) por sus servicios a la comunidad maltesa. Mark está casado con Antoinette Caruana y tienen tres hijos y seis nietos.

Australian literature refers to the written body of work produced by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia. Some of the prominent themes explored in this body of literature are national identity, migration, Australia's unique location and aboriginality. Romanticism refers to a movement of musical, artistic, intellectual and literary works which began in Europe. It was characterized by a disbelief of industrialization and science, emphasis on individualism and emotion, idealization of nature and exaltation of the past with a strong inclination for the mediaeval over the classical. It was most strongly represented in the literature, visual arts and music and influenced social sciences, historiography, natural sciences and education. Romanticism in Australian literature focuses on intense emotions as way of aesthetic experience, and places emphasis on emotions like awe, horror, fear and terror. The topics included in this book on romanticism in contemporary Australian literature are of utmost significance and bound to provide incredible insights to readers. For all readers who are interested in this branch of literature, this book will serve as an excellent guide to develop a comprehensive understanding.