Author: Paul Adams
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Frank Hardy was both a writer and a conspicuous public figure. So huge is his public legacy that it often overshadows the literary work and the books he wrote, many of which are no longer in print. Mr. Hardy may not have been the greatest writer Australia has ever produced, but he was perhaps one of the greatest literary risk takers and experimenters. This book looks at Hardy the writer and Hardy the public/private historical figure - from the halcyon days of Australian Communism in the forties - to the period following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. These years, 1944-1975, represent some of the key trurning points in Hardy's writing and in particular, the significant changes in his relationship to the Communist Party of Australia, which are central to understanding his writing.
The Stranger from Melbourne
Author: Paul Adams
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Frank Hardy was both a writer and a conspicuous public figure. So huge is his public legacy that it often overshadows the literary work and the books he wrote, many of which are no longer in print. Mr. Hardy may not have been the greatest writer Australia has ever produced, but he was perhaps one of the greatest literary risk takers and experimenters. This book looks at Hardy the writer and Hardy the public/private historical figure - from the halcyon days of Australian Communism in the forties - to the period following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. These years, 1944-1975, represent some of the key trurning points in Hardy's writing and in particular, the significant changes in his relationship to the Communist Party of Australia, which are central to understanding his writing.
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Frank Hardy was both a writer and a conspicuous public figure. So huge is his public legacy that it often overshadows the literary work and the books he wrote, many of which are no longer in print. Mr. Hardy may not have been the greatest writer Australia has ever produced, but he was perhaps one of the greatest literary risk takers and experimenters. This book looks at Hardy the writer and Hardy the public/private historical figure - from the halcyon days of Australian Communism in the forties - to the period following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. These years, 1944-1975, represent some of the key trurning points in Hardy's writing and in particular, the significant changes in his relationship to the Communist Party of Australia, which are central to understanding his writing.
Room for a Stranger
Author: Melanie Cheng
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 192577354X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. From the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, this tender, moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural Australia more broadly, is now available in a new compact paperback edition.
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 192577354X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. From the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, this tender, moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural Australia more broadly, is now available in a new compact paperback edition.
The Stranger Upstairs
Author: Lisa M. Matlin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0593599977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Most people wouldn’t buy an infamous murder house to renovate for fun . . . but Sarah Slade is not most people. “This debut novel deftly explores our shadows—the dark parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. I couldn’t stop reading.”—Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A therapist and self-help writer with all the answers, Sarah has just bought a gorgeous Victorian in the community of her dreams. Turns out you can get a killer deal on a house where someone was murdered. Plus, renovating Black Wood House makes for great blog content and a potent distraction from her failing marriage. Good thing nobody knows that her past is as tainted as the bloodstain on her bedroom floor. But the renovations are fast becoming a nightmare. Sarah imagined custom avocado wallpaper, massive profits, and an appreciative husband who would want to share her bed again. Instead, the neighbors hate her guts and her husband still sleeps on the couch. And though the builders attempt to cover up Black Wood’s horrifying past, a series of bizarre accidents, threatening notes, and unexplained footsteps in the attic only confirm for Sarah what the rest of the town already knows: Something is very wrong in that house. With every passing moment, Sarah’s life spirals further out of control—and with it her sense of reality. But as she peels back the curling wallpaper and discovers the house’s secrets, she realizes that the deadly legacy of Black Wood House has only just begun.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0593599977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Most people wouldn’t buy an infamous murder house to renovate for fun . . . but Sarah Slade is not most people. “This debut novel deftly explores our shadows—the dark parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. I couldn’t stop reading.”—Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A therapist and self-help writer with all the answers, Sarah has just bought a gorgeous Victorian in the community of her dreams. Turns out you can get a killer deal on a house where someone was murdered. Plus, renovating Black Wood House makes for great blog content and a potent distraction from her failing marriage. Good thing nobody knows that her past is as tainted as the bloodstain on her bedroom floor. But the renovations are fast becoming a nightmare. Sarah imagined custom avocado wallpaper, massive profits, and an appreciative husband who would want to share her bed again. Instead, the neighbors hate her guts and her husband still sleeps on the couch. And though the builders attempt to cover up Black Wood’s horrifying past, a series of bizarre accidents, threatening notes, and unexplained footsteps in the attic only confirm for Sarah what the rest of the town already knows: Something is very wrong in that house. With every passing moment, Sarah’s life spirals further out of control—and with it her sense of reality. But as she peels back the curling wallpaper and discovers the house’s secrets, she realizes that the deadly legacy of Black Wood House has only just begun.
The Stranger's Vade Mecum: Or, Liverpool Described
Author: David Purdie Thomson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The ambulator; or, The stranger's companion in a tour round London, collected by a gentleman [J. Bew?].
Strangers in a Foreign Land
Author: Neil Black
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 0522855121
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
When Niel Black, one of the most influential settlers of the Western District of Victoria, stepped onto the sand at Port Phillip Bay in 1839 and declared Melbourne to be 'almost altogether a Scotch settlement', he was paying the newly created outpost of the British Empire his highest compliment. His journal, reproduced here in its entirety, provides rare insight into the realities of early settlement in Victoria, detailing experiences of personal hardship and physical danger as well as the potential for accumulating great wealth and success. Drawing on the extensive collections of the State Library of Victoria, Strangers in a Foreign Land also includes glimpses into the lives of other settlers and the indigenous people of the area. It evokes the sense of place and dislocation that the early settlers encountered, and the hopes and anxieties they carried with them as they created new homes in Australia.
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 0522855121
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
When Niel Black, one of the most influential settlers of the Western District of Victoria, stepped onto the sand at Port Phillip Bay in 1839 and declared Melbourne to be 'almost altogether a Scotch settlement', he was paying the newly created outpost of the British Empire his highest compliment. His journal, reproduced here in its entirety, provides rare insight into the realities of early settlement in Victoria, detailing experiences of personal hardship and physical danger as well as the potential for accumulating great wealth and success. Drawing on the extensive collections of the State Library of Victoria, Strangers in a Foreign Land also includes glimpses into the lives of other settlers and the indigenous people of the area. It evokes the sense of place and dislocation that the early settlers encountered, and the hopes and anxieties they carried with them as they created new homes in Australia.
The Stranger's Guide to Sydney
Author: James William Waugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Melbourne Punch
The Way of the Strangers
Author: Graeme Wood (Journalist)
Publisher:
ISBN: 0812988752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group...Wood speaks with non-Islamic State Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam...Through character study and analysis, Wood provides a clear-eyed look at a movement that has inspired so many people to abandon or uproot their families.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0812988752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group...Wood speaks with non-Islamic State Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam...Through character study and analysis, Wood provides a clear-eyed look at a movement that has inspired so many people to abandon or uproot their families.