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Deborah Beck, Rayner Hoff: The Life of a Sculptor
Deborah Beck, Rayner Hoff: The Life of a Sculptor. NewSouth Publishing, NSW: 2017 272 pages. Ills. (B/W and sepia) ISBN: 9781742235325 (paperback); 978174228080 (ePDF). RRP A$49.99 As ANZAC day approaches on 25 April 2017, commemorative services will be held around Australia. Many…
Lisa Murray, Sydney Cemeteries: A Field Guide
Lisa Murray, Sydney Cemeteries, A Field Guide NewSouth, Sydney, 2016, paperback $34.99 Written by Dr Lisa Murray (the City of Sydney Historian, the Dictionary's former chair, a Dictionary author and one of our regular radio presenters on 2SER), with gorgeous contemporary photographs by another Dictionary…
David Hunt, True Girt!
David Hunt, True Girt The Unauthorised History of Australia. Volume 2 Black Inc Books, 2016, ISBN 9781863958844, RRP $32.99, Paperback ‘Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country…
Jim Davidson, Moments in Time: a Book of Australian Postcards
Jim Davidson, Moments in Time: a book of Australian postcards National Library of Australia, 2016, paperback $44.99 ISBN 9780642278777 The humble postcard enjoyed a relatively brief but spectacular place in postage history roughly from the 1890s to the 1920s. They were cheap and attractive and…
James Colman, The House that Jack Built: Jack Mundey Green Bans Hero
James Colman, The House that Jack Built: Jack Mundey Green Bans Hero, The House That Jack Built: Jack Mundey, Green Bans hero by James Colman 2016, NewSouth ISBN: 9781742235011 RRP: $49.99 NewSouth, Sydney, 2016, paperback $49.99, ISBN 9781742235011 Readers of the…
Kiera Lindsey, The Convict’s Daughter: The scandal that shocked a colony
Kiera Lindsey, The Convict’s Daughter: The scandal that shocked a colony, Allen & Unwin, 2016, pp 1-322 The Convict's Daughter, Keira Lindsey Sydney in the 1840s was a complex and volatile city, a colourful social melting pot of convicts, ex-convicts, ex-convicts…
Catherine Bishop, Minding Her Own Business Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney
Catherine Bishop, Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney New South, Sydney 2015, pp1-302, RRP $39.99 Contemplating the life of women in Sydney in the nineteenth century one might think about them as daughters, wives, mothers, lovers, sisters, spinsters and widows.…
LIGHTFOOT DANCING: AN Australian-Indian Affair
LIGHTFOOT DANCING: AN Australian-Indian Affair by Mary Louise Lightfoot ISBN 9781310808586 RRP $10.99 Mary Louise Lightfoot, the author of the Dictionary of Sydney entry on dancer Louise Lightfoot http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/lightfoot_louise has published LIGHTFOOT DANCING: An Australian-Indian Affair, - part biography, part dance history,…
Leigh Straw, The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh
Leigh Straw, The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh (NewSouth Books, July 2016, pp1-266 RRP $29.99) Many Sydneysiders will have heard of Kate Leigh; sly grog seller, drug peddler, madam and a leading underworld criminal entrepreneur in…
Jeannine Baker, Australian Women War Reporters
Jeannine Baker, Australian Women War Reporters; Boer War to Vietnam, NewSouth Books, 2015, pp 1-259, ISBN 9781742234519, RRP $39.99 ‘I have never been asked to march in an Anzac Day march. Men war correspondents have marched – but I think they’ve…