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Author : Vicki Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922578594
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)
Download or read book The Brisbane Line & Other Stories written by Vicki Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JP Powell
Publisher : Brio Books Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1922267104
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Brisbane Line written by JP Powell and published by Brio Books Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As WWII ravages the world and the Japanese Empire has set its sights on Australia, the Americans have come to save us. But not all soldiers are heroes and not all heroes are soldiers. Sergeant Joe Washington, a US Military Police, loves music and photography but spends his days delving into the sordid and petty crimes committed by the thousands of American troops passing through town. While trying to find stolen gasoline stores, he is sent to investigate the body of an American soldier found dumped in a cemetery. Suddenly Joe is up against notorious detective Frank Bischof. Although ordered to leave the investigation alone, Joe fears that Bischof is protecting the most likely suspect while trying to pin the crime on an innocent – and intriguing – young woman, Rose. A woman who seems to walk between the parallel worlds of black market deals and Brisbane’s high society. ‘‘a rattling good murder mystery with a well worked plot that is fast paced and complex enough to engage the reader.’ Westender ‘Beautifully textured, thoughtful and satisfying.’ Emily Maguire
Author : Drew Cottle
Publisher : Upfront Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781844261215
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (612 download)
Download or read book The Brisbane Line written by Drew Cottle and published by Upfront Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1941 and early 1942 a Japanese invasion of Australia seemed imminent. One potential solution to this threat was the establishment of a military line across Australia from Brisbane to Adelaide. Territory south of this line would be defended; the rest of the country would be abandoned. Although never implemented, not surprisingly the Brisbane Line remains to this day a controversial and sensitive topic in Australia, with any suggestion of treachery vehemently refuted. Taking the line as his starting point, Cottle examines the possibility of a collaboration between Japanese intelligence and prominent sections of the Australian ruling class. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, trading links between Japan and Australia had flourished and, as a result, many within Sydney's business establishment began to look favourably upon increasing Japanese influence at the expense of British interests.Through a fresh examination of contemporary sources and drawing on the testimony of Ken Cook, an anti-fascist counter-intelligence agent during this period, Cottle uncovers a fascinating story of collaboration, conspiracy and betrayal - a story which is still being denied today.
Author : Graham Smith
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1921555831
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Shadows of War on the Brisbane Line written by Graham Smith and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of a young boy growing up in a Queensland bush community during the most turbulent time in Australia's history. The stories are from a world that is almost unrecognisable to the one we live in today, about a community that no longer exists. My immediate family want to remember 'Grandad's stories', and I hope the wider audience will enjoy either renewing their acquaintance with the world of their childhood, or learning about the world of parents and grandparents.
Author : Julie Kimber
Publisher : Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
ISBN 13 : 0980388309
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Time of Their Lives written by Julie Kimber and published by Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 21 April 1856 Melbourne building workers won an industry-wide agreement to establish the Eight Hour Day. In the 150 years since then the slogan ‘Eight Hours Labour, Eight Hours Recreation, Eight Hours Rest’ has symbolised workers’ efforts to take control over the time of their lives and, in doing so, strike a civilised balance between work, rest and play. It was an assertion that they were not simply ‘operatives’ in a labour market, but also family members and citizens in what they hoped could become a civilised community. This book offers historical perspectives on that continuing campaign to give readers a long-term context for our current debates over the work/life balance and power in the workplace.
Author : Zoran Zivkovic
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809550865
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Devil in Brisbane written by Zoran Zivkovic and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil in Brisbane is an anthology alive with all of the spontaneity, cunning, wild imagination, and artifice of it's namesake. Zoran Zivković has conjured thirty tales of sardonic splendor from Australian writers both new and more established. In this case, the Devil is most definitely in the details.- Jeffrey Ford, author of The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
Author : Paul Burns
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781864485394
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Brisbane Line Controversy written by Paul Burns and published by Allen & Unwin Academic. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind the Brisbane Line controversy - the idea that parts of Australia above a line just north of Brisbane would be surrendered to the Japanese without firing a shot. It is a tale of political deceit, manipulation, cowardice and betrayal by politicians on all sides for electoral gain, culminating in the scapegoating of innocent army officers.
Author : William Morris
Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 1921511443
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Benedict, Me and the Cardinals Three written by William Morris and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: Bishop WM Morris was born in Brisbane in 1943, and was ordained a priest in 1969. From 1979 to 1985 he was Secretary to Archbishop Francis Rush. He was Bishop of Toowoomba from 1992 to... German description:
Author : Carmel Bird
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811210737
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Woodpecker Point & Other Stories written by Carmel Bird and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this collection of twenty-four stories, New Directions introduces to American readers a wonderful new writing voice from Australia. Carmel Bird deftly walks the thin line between the ordinary world and the world of the imagination and the fantastic. As she has remarked: "When I read fiction I want the words to take my spirits into the places beneath the surface of the everyday world. I want the freshness of dreams to again be revealed to me." By turns Carmel Bird's tales are funny-sad, frightening-gentle, mysterious-matter of fact. Her prose is deceptive; lucid and seemingly artless, yet surprising--a left hook from a white kid glove. "Woodpecker Point," the center-piece of this collection, perhaps best evinces Carmel Bird's many special qualities in concert, above all her unique feeling for the materiality and color of things and for the mystery of the everyday. The assembled stories have been chosen from her first book, Birth, Death and Marriages (privately printed in Australia in 1983) on through her most recent work which shows in the concluding pieces, "Goczka" and "Every Home Should Have a Cedar Chest," a poetic dimension intimated in her earlier writing and now brought to full bloom.
Author : J. David Stevens
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814251536
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Mexico is Missing and Other Stories written by J. David Stevens and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's America to do when, one day, Mexico suddenly disappears? That question, asked by the title story in Mexico Is Missing, sets the tone for a collection whose individual stories have been described as "provocative," "intensely relevant," and "wickedly macabre." Thematically and formally diverse, these pieces are unified by their devotion to the offbeat, even insane, moments of contemporary life. A widow hears a voice from her computer that claims to be God. An unnamed narrator develops an unhealthy fascination with his mailman. Several characters from a joke come to life and wonder what to do with themselves. A poet married to a porn star considers the real meaning of love. The subjects of this volume range widely. From Snoopy to Southern Baptists, from witch trials to infomercials, from the President's golf game to...well, the President's penis-anything is fair game in a collection that blends satire with a sincere desire to find meaning in the jumbled world that we daily inhabit. A literary critic and author, Stevens also demonstrates his formal range by juxtaposing traditional linear stories against micro-fictions and longer "fractured" narratives. The result is a book that traverses the literary map with impressive dexterity. Individually, the stories in Mexico Is Missing will provide various pleasures for every reader. But taken together, they represent a more profound effort to blend those diametric impulses-formal, cultural, and sociopolitical-which so often define contemporary experience. This collection of 23 short stories by J. David Stevens is clever, sardonic, and humorous. While you're laughing Stevens also gives you plenty of things to think about-spirituality, the negligence of the mass media, American politics, and relationships. Book jacket.
Author : John A. Scott
Publisher : Brandl & Schlesinger
ISBN 13 : 1921556498
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book N written by John A. Scott and published by Brandl & Schlesinger. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accidental death of MP Norman Cole precipitates a hung parliament allowing a core of extreme right-wing politicians to seize power. Telford, a high-ranking but unworldly public servant, is approached by Cole’s wife who believes her husband was murdered and asks him to investigate on her behalf. The reward for this, he hopes, will be her love. Despite the bizarre and threatening nature of his investigations, he remains convinced that the ‘scribbled note’ about the meeting with ‘N’ holds the key to what he seeks. Meanwhile in an increasingly nightmarish city, in a countryside owing more to the Middle Ages than to the 1940s, or in two distant prison camps, a range of Australians struggle to find their own truths, a way back to love, and a means of survival — be it Roy and Vic, each struggling to validate and empower their painting; be it the artist’s model Missy, torn between passion and fidelity; or the writer Henningsen and Head of the Emergency Government Warren Mahony, each battling with their tenuous sanities. Told in a wide range of styles, N is a remarkable work of imagination woven about two unforgettable love stories.
Author : Hugh Mac Master
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876674045
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Brisbane Line written by Hugh Mac Master and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marline Manly
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385398827
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Prison Pen. Or, Dead Line at Andersonville. A Thrilling Story of Adventure Down in Dixie written by Marline Manly and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : A.J. McClure
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Brisbane Line and Beyond written by A.J. McClure and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Macklin
Publisher : BWM Books
ISBN 13 : 1465799508
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (657 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Brisbane written by Robert Macklin and published by BWM Books. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glenn Morrison
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522871011
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Writing Home written by Glenn Morrison and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Home explores the literary representation of Australian places by those who have walked them. In particular, it examines how Aboriginal and settler narratives of walking have shaped portrayals of Australia’s Red Centre and consequently ideas of nation and belonging. Central Australia has long been characterised as a frontier, the supposed divide between black and white, ancient and modern. But persistently representing it in this way is preventing Australians from re-imagining this internationally significant region as home. Writing Home argues that the frontier no longer adequately describes Central Australia, and that the Aboriginal songlines make a significant but under-acknowledged contribution to Australian discourses of hybridity, belonging and home. Drawing on anthropology, cultural theory, journalism, politics and philosophy, the book traces shifting perceptions of Australian place and space since precolonial times, through six recounted walking journeys of the Red Centre.
Author : Libby Connors
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Australia's Frontline written by Libby Connors and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1992 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
