Month: June 2020

Australia has no history of slavery? Read a searing account of the falsity of that claim in “Soaring With Cockatoos”. Not just slavery, massacres as well. It really is time to face that past in all colonised countries.

 

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Love, humour, politics, religion, depravity, courage — all part of life in this family saga over three generations. THere is also empathy as the young characters grow old an feeble. Read “The Photo Album”.

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An estimated 20,000 people lived on Tasmania for perhaps 20,000 years. A couple of generations after the European invasion there was not one alive on the island. “Paradise Stolen” concentrates on the man who catalysed the tragedy without wanting to.

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n 1990-91, with the economy in tatters and frustration on all sides, SOME change had to occur. Meanwhile ordinary people were falling in and out of love, learning and forgetting. Read about it in “Love Amid the Ruins”.

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When an unscrupulous corporation, backed up by a corrupt government and the IMF, wants to take over a beautiful island devastated by a tsunami and destroy the way of life there to built a tourist resort for the rich, what can be done?

 

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The “golden age” of European colonisation of the planet had many features that make us ashamed today, but it was a period of fascinating interest. Read about it in “Fatal Empires”.

 

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n times of crisis like today we need honest, talented journalists, just as they desperately needed in pre-Hitler Germany, Read of such men in the novel “As Though Everything Depended On Me”.

 

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2020 is a pretty tumultuous year. For people of a certain generation 1968 was a momentous year in their personal and public lives. “Winter 1968” takes us to those events in Germany, and their effect on a conservative young Englishman.

 

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