What do we owe people in #history? Candida Baker & Susan Francis explore fiction's moral responsibility to the past, the role of imagination in #historicalfiction, & why unresolved histories keep shaping the present. Sun 22 March, 2.30pm. 🎟️ manlywritersfestival.org.au #ManlyWF26 #AustralianLit
A black-and-white portrait of reformer, freethinker, and author Henrietta Dugdale as a young woman.
The retrofuturist logo (with image of vintage rocket" of "Looking Back on Genre History with Amy H. Sturgis" on the podcast StarShipSofa.
On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 772), I discuss early #Feminist #ScienceFiction utopias and focus on A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883) by #HenriettaDugdale. #Utopia #AustralianLit #Books […]
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Merlinda Bobis’ In the Name of the Trees is a lyrical, uncompromising novel about colonial violence, language, land and four generations of Bikol women – rooted, entangled and alive, writes Michelle Hamadache. #AustralianLit #BookReview #PostcolonialWriting
The book is Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Picked this up on a whim & then I inhaled it over the weekend! I came for the mouse plague and stayed for the existential dread. Loved it! @sceptrebooks.bsky.social #bookSky #AustralianLit
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💙📚 #Books #WomenWriting 🖋️📚 #WomensHistoryMonth The Commandant by Jessica Anderson 320 pages • first pub 1975 "The Commandant evolves from the history of the early Moreton Bay penal settlement, now Brisbane."
Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson 202 pages • first pub 1978 Miles Franklin Literary Award (1978)
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Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson 202 pages • first pub 1978 Miles Franklin Literary Award (1978)
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson - 1980 - with four camels and a dog.
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#BookSky #Camels
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Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson - 1980 - with four camels and a dog.
Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett 1959 4 young Australian textile factory workers, Shirl, Dawnie, Patty, and Nell, a Communist Party member, band together to face their problems
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Taking a tour of these covers throughout 2025: Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett 1959 4 young Australian factory workers, Shirl, Dawnie, Patty, and Nell, a Communist Party member, band together to face their problems
Attention #NevilShute #collectors! This is the #scarce first #Canadian edition (2nd printing) of #NoHighway. $75. #Booksky #fiction #aviation #AustralianLit
