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“jill roe”

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  • Miles Franklin: A Short Biography

    by Jill Roe ...
    A classic, accessible award-winning biography of Australia's most iconic author, leading feminist and humanitarian.'To meet Miles Franklin was as invigorating as to ride on a spring morning across the Monaro plains she so dearly loved,' wrote Henrietta Drake-Brockman.Author, union organiser, WWI volunteer, women's rights agitator, nationalist, Miles Franklin worked, wrote and talked for many ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Searching for the Spirit

    Theosophy in Australia, 1879-1939

    by Jill Roe ...
    Abounding with larger-than-life characters, Searching for the Spirit traces the history of theosophy from its rise in the 1870s through its heyday in the 1920s to its relative decline in the 1930s. Although always tangential as a quasi-religious spiritual movement, it had an effect disproportionate to its numbers and paved the way for more recent spiritual movements that bloomed in the 1960s ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Our Fathers Cleared the Bush

    Remembering Eyre Peninsula

    by Jill Roe ...
    Renowned historian Jill Roe, whose grandparents were early settlers of South Australia's west coast, revisits her mid-century childhood in what was one of Australia's most remote regions. Rhythms of work and play were punctuated by moments - the annual show, a visit from young Queen Elizabeth - that connected farming lives, however briefly, to a changing world. With urbanisation comes ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography

    by Jill Roe ...
    The award-winning biography of one of Australia's best-loved writers ... The author of MY BRILLAINT CAREER had a fascinating career of her own ... Winner of the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for Non-Fiction 2010'a long-awaited and splendidly breezy blockbuster biography of the indefatigable, self-inventing and campaigning author of My Brilliant Career' Richard Holmes, AUStRALIAN BOOK ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • WAR

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  • My Story

    by Peter Cosgrove ...
    The best-selling autobiography of Australia's favourite military leader and Australia's newest Governor-General.the best-selling autobiography of Australia's favourite military leader and Australia's newest Governor-General. 'this book is my personal story, from boyhood to battlefield and beyond, written in my own words, reflecting on my life.' In 1999, General Peter Cosgrove was thrust into the ... Read more

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  • Banjo Paterson Complete Poems

    by Banjo Paterson ...
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    A beautiful new edition of the complete poems of A. B. 'Banjo' PatersonWhen a young man submitted a set of verses to the BULLEtIN in 1889 under the pseudonym 'the Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets.this complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favourites such as 'A Bush ... Read more

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  • A Lasting Record

    by Stephen Downes ...
    The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius.A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime, William Kapell was acknowledged to be 'the greatest pianistic talent since Horowitz'. Yet his return flight from Australia - where he toured in 1953 - ploughed into a mountain south of San Francisco and ... Read more

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  • March

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    by Geraldine Brooks ...
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  • The Queen

    Elizabeth II and the Monarchy (Text Only)

    by Ben Pimlott ...
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  • What Would Google Do?

    Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World

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