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Nadia Wheatley
This new edition includes a new timeline, which traces the history of the characters in the book, as well as the history of Australia, and is right up-to-date with reference…
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The biography of Charmian Clift, one of Australia’s most charismatic and misunderstood writers. This book follows her life from the beginning of her career, as a journalist with the Melbourne…
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“Why didn’t you and Daddy want people to give you any wedding presents?” I used to ask. But my mother could never be drawn into talking about the wedding. Later…
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When Noel and Evie come together in adjoining terrace houses in Sydney’s inner city, something more powerful than a dream sets the past back in motion. Winner of NSW State…
Charmian Clift, Nadia Wheatley (ed.)
The End of the Morning is the final and unfinished autobiographical novel by Charmian Clift. Published here for the first time, it is the book that Clift herself regarded as…
Nadia Wheatley’s award-winning and critically acclaimed collection, The Night Tolkien Died, was first published in 1995. Listening to Mondrian brings six of these stories and an additional two new stories…
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This new edition of Charmian Clift’s essays, selected and introduced by her biographer Nadia Wheatley, is drawn from the weekly newspaper column Clift wrote through the turbulent and transformative years…
Charmian Clift and Nadia Wheatley
The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift. 'In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of…
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With stunning photographs and illustrations, this book is a fascinating insight, from earliest times to today, into the experiences of Indigenous children, whose land was, and is, their playground.
A fascinating and significant contribution to Australian history, this book tells the story of how Anangu from five different language groups came to live together at Papunya (250km west of…
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Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley
In Radicals: Remembering the Sixties some of the people doing the changing reflect on how the decade changed them and Australian society forever. It will make you feel like you…
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Winner of the Young People’s History Prize in the 2014 NSW Premier’s History Awards, this is a lavish and comprehensive history of Australia told through the eyes of young people.
Nadia Wheatley (Author)
Luke’s art teacher can’t understand Luke’s paintings. While the class’s paintings are of realistic portraits and red apples, Luke’s are of people with noses and eyes in the wrong spot…
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The award-winning journey of friendship and harmony involving sixteen children from eight schools in south-west Sydney as they explore their local environment and work collaboratively on art and writing.
