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January 1: The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins
Peter FitzSimons … in conversation with Bill Kable
Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived. The son of pioneer pastoralists in South Australia, Hubert studied engineering before moving on to photography, then sailing for England and a job producing films. Brave and bold, he became a polar expeditioner, a brilliant war photographer, a spy in the Soviet Union, a pioneering aviator-navigator, a death-defying submariner. He was the only Australian photographer in any war to be decorated and was knighted in 1928 for his aviation exploits.
January 8: Nancy Business
R W R McDonald … in conversation with Bill Kable
Nancy Business is a book about family, love and the courage to stand up for the truth, no matter the cost. It is adult crime fiction in the tradition of a whodunit/whydunit murder mystery with amateur detectives on the case. It is a sequel to The Nancys which Ngaio Marsh Awards judges described as an “exuberant small-town murder mystery” and “hilarious and inventive”.
January 15: A Bloody Good Rant
Thomas Keneally … in conversation with Bill Kable
Thomas Keneally has been observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for well over fifty years. In this deeply personal and passionately drawn collection he draws on a lifetime of engagement with the great issues of our recent history and his own moments of discovery and understanding.
He writes with unbounded joy of being a grandparent, and with intimacy and insight about the prospect of death and the meaning of faith. He is outraged about the treatment of Indigenous Australians and refugees, and argues fiercely against market economics and the cowardice of climate change deniers.
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