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In these 22 interviews with notable verse novelists, Linda Weste explores the uniqueness of storytelling through poetry and the verse novel genre. Her subjects include Bernardine Evaristo, joint winner of the Booker Prize in 2019; and what they have to say enriches our understanding of the many ways poetry and narratives can meld.

David Campbell was one of Australia's finest lyric poets. A writer, war hero and grazier, he published 11 books of poems and short stories, and was a regular contributor to The Bulletin under Douglas Stewart's literary editorship.

More than any other 20th century writer, George Orwell responded to a period of historical change by imagining his dystopian '1984'. What if he had been writing today, in an age of Islamist terror, fake news and post-truth politics?

Eighteenth century British convicts were sent to Botany Bay on the recommendation of 'Tommy' Townshend, a John Bull figure, and politician largely in Opposition. He also played a key role in settling the peace between Americans and Britons and determining the boundary between Canada and the United States. And was made a peer, Lord Sydney, in 1883.

The word 'Anzac' has been the subject of a century of legal regulation in Australia and internationally. Catherine Bond interrogates the legal history of one of Australia and New Zealand's most revered words and the restrictions on the acronym that still exist today.

1918 was a triumphal year for the Australian Corps in France yet perceptions of this have been clouded by legends. This concise and knowledgeable account will not sit comfortably with everyone.

Artist Ugo Catani's 'A Summer Shower in Collins Street, 1889' sets the scene for walking the streets of Melbourne, imagining the everyday past and seeing the urban landscape with new eyes. This award-winning book is a rich commentary on the growth and transformation of a great Australian city.

Manolo Blahnik once claimed that Australia was 'the most creative place in the world'. He was referring to the fashion and art worlds created by the principal characters in this book in Melbourne and then in Sydney, in the 1970s-90s.

Central Australia has been the last frontier of Australia, and politically the forgotten country. This is the story of European settlement and its culture clash with the original people.

The book brings to life the passionate arguments about Northern Australia's national significance and analyses the political debates that have periodically drawn the public's attention northwards.

New to Broome in Western Australia, Colin Everett is drawn into a fierce legal dispute over land ownership. A key witness disappears. To win for the Aboriginal claimants, Colin must find the witness, overcome opposition and probe the origin of ancient rock art.

T. H. Rigby was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6.

Meticulously using contemporary newspaper reports, court records, published memoirs, private letters and diaries, Michael Wilding tells the story of three troubled geniuses of 19th century Australian writing and their world of poetry and poverty, alcohol and opiates, horse-racing and theatre, journalism and publishing.

In 1797, Britain rashly pressed French prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps and armed them as guards on a ship carrying 66 female and 2 male convicts to New South Wales. The true story of those on board is told in detail for the first time.

This book gives the young and middle-aged insights into the world of the elderly. It deals with frailty, loss, loneliness and death, but it is far from being gloomy.

Set against the fascinating exotics of Australia and France, 'A haunting mystical reading experience, suffused with history, art, and recovery from trauma. An inspired travelogue... the damaged genius of Van Gogh brooding over the narrative, with hints of both joy and anguish.'

In stories disturbing, moving and comic, the acclaimed Australian author, playwright & screenwriter displays his breathtaking range, taking us from Venice to Lord Howe Island, from the chaos of contemporary Moscow to Sydney high society, from Edwardian London to a mysterious place full of beauty and terror in Far North Queensland.

What happened to soldiers who suffered psychologically in the First World War? Here, this long-ignored aspect of Australian military history is closely and compassionately examined and linked with so-called shell shock and moral injury.

As an adventurous teenager, James Colnett had sailed with Cook in the Resolution. He later fought England's enemies in the American and French wars and devoted himself to 'enlarging the bounds of Navigation and Commerce'.

Elsa recounts the dramatic years beside her film-producer husband as pioneers of an Australian film industry.

Audrey Donnithorne was born in Sichuan, China of British missionary parents and is a noted economist and writer. In her long and extraordinary life she has been a sharp-eyed observer of China.

It provides a first-hand account of Australian immigration detention during a period of dramatic change and controversy.

An extreme POW story, the Sandakan death marches. The tragedy had four stages: active resistance, stubborn endurance, the collapse of civilized existence in 1945 and, finally, the postwar decades of torment for the six damaged survivors. The author's father was one of the six.

For those who want to understand Australia's Westminster style politics. Why does Australia change its prime ministers so often? Here is the story of how all twenty-nine former prime ministers lost their jobs.

Violence plagues our civilization in its many forms. Traumatology describes the consequences of violence, but a corresponding Violentology is needed. Valent unpicks the minds of perpetrators in each field of violence. He develops a means of understanding and presents his ideas clearly to both professionals and lay readers.

Steven Pinker's 'Enlightenment Now' establishes that great progress has been made on the aims of the European Enlightenment. However, the minds of many economists, moralists and political thinkers in the West are still set firmly in the eighteenth century. A new enlightenment is needed to overcome this poverty of social theory.