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By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the following two years, more than...

Ken Clezy, AM OBE, is a surgeon whose vocation has taken him many places, not all of them safe. When three colleagues were shot dead at a Yemen mission hospital he escaped only because he had gone...

On Homo Rodans and Other WritingsAuthor: Remedios VaroPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: Jun 11, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1939663911ISBN-13:...

Open DayAuthor: Leslie KilmartinPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: Oct 17, 2023Number of Pages: 330 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1923042033ISBN-13: 9781923042032

Hali Greengard thinks she's a freak. She's a twin from Hexa, a planet where twins are always Daka together. Except for her. She is Luma.When the navigation system on her family's interplanetary...

They wanted a love they could take into eternity.In a small town on the Australian coast Penny grows up to marry the boy who has waited for her. Few know the truth about her birth. Her uncle Jack is...

Potsdamer Platz, Or, The Nights Of The New MessiahAuthor: Curt CorrinthPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: July 06, 2021Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

With Psychology of the Rich Aunt, German author Erich Mühsam made his ironic bid for authorial immortality by announcing his discovery that immortality in fact exists--specifically in the person of...

Author: Nathaniel HailesPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: Jan 10, 2021Number of Pages: 182 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1862544670ISBN-13: 9781862544673

Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov...

Shattered Memories (Charleston Earthquake Series)Author: Debbie Lynne CostelloPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: Feb 19, 2016Number of Pages: 318 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Wilf Healy lives in the wheatbelt town of Selwyn, works in Monk's Irish pub, delivers letters, drives the school bus, holds the place together. But he's had enough, wants to retire - to forget his...

Siblings tells what it is like to grow up with a brother or sister with a disability or illness. The siblings of children with a disability are often the overlooked ones in families struggling to...

Josiah Symon arrived in South Australia from Scotland in 1866 just before his 20th birthday. His baggage included two boxes of books, references praising his primary school teaching and a few English...

Author: Lydia LaubePublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: Nov 16, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1862544182ISBN-13: 9781862544185

Author: Gina InverarityPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2020Number of Pages: 210 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1743057008ISBN-13: 9781743057001

Sword Of Trust (Winds Of Change)Author: Debbie Lynne CostelloPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: March 14, 2021Number of Pages: 393 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Author: Lydia LaubePublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: September 01, 2004Number of Pages: 184 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1862546312ISBN-13: 9781862546318

Paul Heywood-Smith's interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict commenced in London in 1973 at the time of the Yom Kippur War. He was then a young lawyer imbued with the values derived from the fight...

A collection of ethereal stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last of the...

Miss Marple meets H.P. Lovecraft in Ray's genre-defying tale of ghostly intrigue and murder Published in occupied Belgium in 1943 a few months after his celebrated novel Malpertuis, The City of...

A man of substance in war and in peace, Dr Donald Beard, AM, is a leader, and known for his compassion, humility and charm. The Diggers' Doctor tells of his extraordinary life as a surgeon, as well...

He didn't look like he could jump a bull, but she knew he could. It was all in the hands, he'd often explain. The will. The bloody mindedness. On a cattle station that stretches beyond the horizon,...

THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD is a tale of discovery and adventure, of pioneering deeds, great courage, heart-stopping rescues and heroic endurance. This is Mawson's own account of his years spent in...

Author: Ali WhitelockPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: Feb 24, 2020Number of Pages: 114 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1743057040ISBN-13: 9781743057049

The Mill : A CosmosAuthor: Bess Brenck KalischerPublisher: Wakefield PressPublication Date: Oct 19, 2021Number of Pages: 67 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1939663717ISBN-13:...

Bertha Schippan, beautiful but headstrong daughter of a Wendish-German family, is murdered on New Year's Day, 1902. A posse of Adelaide police arrive at the family's lonely Murray Flats farm...

Like rocks, we are shaped by forces over time. Despite being eroded, fractured, immersed, put under pressure - The Rocks Remain. Always was, always will be.Through poetry and prose, twenty-five...

This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Z?rn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s...