The Pea-pickers
Author : Eve Langley
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN :
Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers
Author : Helen Vines
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2021-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922464408
Book Description
Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her death in 1974. Was her writing the truth, or false, or somewhere in between? What did it mean when she described her father as 'evil' and 'perverted' in her first published novel The Pea Pickers (1942) and a kindly figure in later, unpublished work? Did she really believe herself to be Oscar Wilde? Was she gender fluid? Eve and her sister (and co-conspirator) June held onto family secrets as if their very lives depended on it. Eve Langley has been in the news since the 1920s and reviewed on both sides of the globe. She was an author, a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter and a long-term psychiatric inmate. But June, who traversed the Australian countryside dressed as a boy, a willing lifelong companion to her beloved sister, is a lonely anonymous figure. Drawing on contemporary evidence, Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers gives the key players in the author's life a voice, and the result is a fascinating but ultimately poignant tale of love and loss.
Last Days of Ava Langdon
Author : Mark O'Flynn
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0702257796
Book Description
Based on the infamous novelist Eve Langley, Ava Langdon is an eccentric outcast solely preoccupied with her passion for words. Little does Ava know, she does not have long to live. Each day she wakes obsessed with finding the perfect sentence, the perfect description. She dons men's clothing and inspires confusion with her penchant for slipping snippets of French into conversation. From submitting a manuscript, to getting hit by a ute, to meeting with her estranged son, Ava's last days encapsulate the freedom of eccentricity and the sadness of isolation.
The Weight of a Thousand Feathers
Author : Brian Conaghan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 168119483X
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of When Mr. Dog Bites and The Bombs That Brought Us Together comes a compelling, thought-provoking, heartbreaking, and timely story that asks: how far would you go for family? As the person who cares for his terminally-ill mother, Bobby Seed has a lot on his plate. Add to that a responsibility to watch over his little brother (with his endless question about why their mother is in so much pain), keeping up at school, and navigating a relationship with a girl friend who wants to be a girlfriend, and he's barely keeping his head above the water. Something's got to give. But then Bobby's mother makes a request, one that seems impossible. If he agrees, he won't just be soothing her pain. He'll be helping her end it -- and end everything. Angry, stirring, and tender, this bold novel tells a story of choice and compassion, exploring the lengths to which we'll go for the people we love.
Gender Violence in Australia
Author : Alana Piper
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781925835304
Book Description
In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action around gender violence, its prevalence remains alarming. A third of all women in Australia have been assaulted physically; a fifth of all women have been assaulted sexually. Intimate partner violence is significantly more prevalent in Australia than western Europe or North America. One woman each week is murdered by an intimate partner, and recent research suggests that nearly forty per cent of all women who suicide have a history of domestic or family violence. Domestic violence is a precipitating factor in a third of all homelessness. The resulting strain on government services and lost productivity means that family violence has been estimated as costing the Australian economy around 13.6 billion dollars a year. The histories presented in this collection indicate exactly where these violent behaviours come from and how they have been rationalised over time, offering an important resource for addressing what amounts to a widespread, persistent, and urgent social problem.
The Making of a Party System
Author : Zareh Ghazarian
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Political parties
ISBN : 9781922235923
Book Description
In Australian politics, minor parties have come a long way. From an era where there were no minor parties in the national parliament, they have become crucial players in shaping government policy and the political debate. This book charts the rise of minor parties in the Australian Senate since the end of World War II, and it constructs an analytical framework to explain how these parties became the powerful actors they are today. The book shows that there has been a change in the type of minor party elected. Rather than being created as a result of a split in a major party, newer minor parties have been mobilized by broad social movements with the aim of advancing specific policy agendas. By shedding light on these parties, the book shows how minor parties have impacted the Australian political system and how they look set to remain an important component of governance in the future. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO (Series: Politics) [Subject: Politics, History, Australian Studies]
The Vagabond Papers
Author : Vagabond
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Melbourne (Vic.)
ISBN :
Book Description
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
Author : Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1536207969
Book Description
Harry Black is lost between the world of war and the land of myth in this illustrated novel that transports the tale of Orpheus to World War II–era London. Brothers Marcus and Julian Sedgwick team up to pen this haunting tale of another pair of brothers, caught between life and death in World War II. Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry’s mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city’s Underworld. With otherworldly paintings by Alexis Deacon depicting Harry’s surreal descent further into the depths of hell, this eerily beautiful blend of prose, verse, and illustration delves into love, loyalty, and the unbreakable bonds of brotherhood as it builds to a fierce indictment of mechanized warfare.
Labor People
Author : Chris Bowen
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2021-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781922464729
Book Description
How much do you know about the history of Australia's oldest political party, the Australian Labor Party? You know the big names: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke and Keating. But what about the names behind the big names? The unsung and overlooked True Believers who have been the backbone of the Labor Party for one hundred and thirty years? In Labor People, Chris Bowen brings to life six great Australians and servants of their party and tells their story. Spanning the 1890s to the 1970s, in paying tribute to these Labor warriors, he also tells an important part of the history of Labor and Australia. Who was the first loyal deputy and lynchpin of the earliest Labor governments? Which leading advocate of votes for women went on to play an important but unrecognised role in Australia's literary history? Who did Labor turn to in its darkest World War One hours when its very existence was under threat? Who did Curtin and Chifley turn to for their hardest jobs? Which Labor loyalist called her own party out on police brutality when it wasn't fashionable? Which minister was Whitlam's steadiest performer? The answer to all these questions and more lies in the pages of Labor People. 'Many have shaped the Labor Party and through it Australia. Chris Bowen has shone a long-overdue light on six of Labor's finest from the past. They deserve his generous and insightful reflections.' -- Senator John Faulkner
The Battlers
Author : Kylie Tennant
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 9780207183676
Book Description
Reissue to tie in with a TV series adaption. Novel first published in 1941, set in the Depression years and telling the story of two young people travelling around Australia seeking work. It was awarded the S H Prior Memorial Prize and the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. The author was made an AO in 1980 and is well-known for such novels as 'The Honey Flour' and 'Ride on Stranger'.
