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Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2010 Non-Fiction Shortlist

The Ghost at the Wedding: A True Story

The Ghost at the Wedding: A True Story

Shirley Walker

The Ghost at the Wedding is like no other account of war, chronicling events from both sides - the horror of the battlefields and the women who were left at home. Shirley Walker's depictions of those battles - Gallipoli, the...

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Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness

Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness

Will Elliott

In 2006, Will Elliott had his first novel, The Pilo Family Circus, published. It won literary awards and acclaim nationally and internationally. What nobody knew was that the young author of that work of terrifying fantasy had...

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The Colony: A history of early Sydney

The Colony: A history of early Sydney

Grace Karskens (Author)

A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from the impact of its geology to its economy.

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