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The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews
Author: Martin Thomas

The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews is about the life and work of the renowned 19th century surveyor turned ethnologist, R.H. Mathews, whose studies of Aboriginal Australia were path-breaking and quite controversial. His childhood in Goulburn meant ...
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2011  WINNER
Grand Obsessions Grand Obsessions
Author: Alasdair McGregor
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Arts & Entertainment Artists, Architects, Photographers

On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on a sheep paddock they called Canberra. Almost a century later, Griffin's ...
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2010  WINNER
Manning Clark Manning Clark
Author: Brian Matthews
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Ethnic
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Social Scientists & Psychologists
Category:History - Reference & Cultural Historiography

Manning Clark was one of the most influential Australian intellectuals of the last half century. His political pronouncements were often highly provocative and his sweeping judgements, dire denunciations and oracular prophecies infuriated ...
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2009  WINNER
I am Melba I am Melba
Author: Ann Blainey
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Music Chamber, Choral & Opera
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Music Genres & Styles - Opera
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Arts & Entertainment Entertainment & Performing Arts

The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era. Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. When a chance arose to go to Paris, she trusted in ...
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Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769 - 1799 v. 1 Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769 - 1799 v. 1
Author: Philip Dwyer
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military General
Category:History - Europe France

Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power was neither inevitable nor smooth; it was full of mistakes, wrong turns and pitfalls. During his formative years his identity was constantly shifting, his character ambiguous and his intentions often ill-defined.
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These Few Lines These Few Lines
Author: Graham Seal
Category:Biography & Autobiography -
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General

With deftness and superb storytelling Graham Seal uses his own scholarly research the fragments of letters diary and journal entries left by Myra and William Sykes to give his readers an insight into an early Australian convict life.THESE FEW ...
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2007  WINNER
East of Time East of Time
Author: Jacob Rosenberg
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military General
Category:History - Reference & Cultural Jewish & The Holocaust
Category:History - Europe General
Category:History - Europe Period -From 1900
Category:True Stories - Endurance & Survival

This book is a rendezvous of history and imagination and dreams and of hopes and disenchantments. It unfolds in a succession of reminiscences that weave together a shimmering tapestry depicting a lost world. The setting is Lodz, Poland, in the ...
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2006  WINNER
The Idea of Home The Idea of Home
Author: John Hughes
Category:Social Science - Emigration & Immigration

In this collection of autobiographical essays, John Huges reflects on growing up in Cessnock, in a household ruled by memories of the Ukraine, which his mother and grandparents had to flee during the Second World War. Winner of 2006 National ...
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2005  WINNER
The Boy in the Green Suit The Boy in the Green Suit
Author: Robert Hillman
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Memoirs
Category:Travel - Travel Writing General

It is 1965. Robert Hillman, a mere 16 years old, is planning an extraordinary adventure. Deserted by his mother, disliked by his stepmother, and puzzled by his father, Bobby needs comforting. His life in rural Victoria has offered no solace; his ...
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2004  WINNER
Broken Song Broken Song
Author: Barry Hill
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General
Category:Social Science - Ethnic Studies

'A group of mena chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age and weakness and becoming young again in spiritathe rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life u what an unforgettable scene!' Thus wrote T.
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Recollections of a Bleeding Heart Recollections of a Bleeding Heart
Author: Don Watson

If he had never become Prime Minister, Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament.
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Rose Boys: a Memoir of Life with Robert Rose Boys: a Memoir of Life with Robert
Author: Peter Rose
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General
Category:Sports & Recreation - General

'Rose Boys is the wrenching, stunning account of a family living for about a quarter of a century in the sometimes tightening, sometimes loosening, but never absent, grip of a catastrophe.' Brian Matthews, The Age '...a book of immense emotional ...
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2000  WINNER
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Author: Peter Robb
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Art Artists
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Art Forms Painting
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Art History General
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Art Treatments & Subjects General

Peter Robb's extraordinary book about the great Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi from Caravaggio is being reprinted for the exhibition of the artist's work that opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in November and later moves to Melbourne.
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1998  WINNER
Snake Circle Snake Circle
Author: Roberta Sykes

What the critics said about Snake Cradle and Snake Dancing. 'Snake Cradle and Snake Dancing are enough to suggest that Sykes' three-volume memoir may well become an Australian classic.' Sun-Herald 'Once begun, readers should be made aware that ...
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