On a wintry evening in 1941, Dr. Lachlan McCready is on his rounds in the remote Scottish village of Rassaig when he comes across a silent, frightened evacuee boy who is trying to survive in one of Rassaig's poorest homes. Lachlan, also scarred by loss, sees that desperate times call for desperate measures and decides to take him under his wing. Meanwhile, down the road, some very different newcomers have turned up - three English land girls have come to help' much to the delight of the young men and to the consternation of the local religious firebrands. Soon it becomes clear that these four strangers will change the village forever as the war that had seemed so far away begins to cast its long shadow over windswept Rassaig. Breathtakingly moving, gripping and funny in equal measure, Michael Cannon's novel is storytelling at its best. Brilliantly evocative of time and place, "Lachlan's War" is a heartbreaking story of war and loss but also a powerful celebration of the human spirit.

Lachlan's War

Cannon, Michael

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Uk

A classic of Australian history, this book provides the detailed story of the men who created or were caught up in the land boom fever, and of their personal triumph or destruction. It tells the story of colonial Victoria, made rich by gold and populous by the immigrants who followed. The flourishing economy saw speculation rewarded, and no apparent limits to expansion. The depression which followed was a catastrophe, the supreme crisis for the colony.

The Land Boomers

History

Americas

Melbourne Univ Pr

Boom or bust? What was the truth of the great land booms that swept Australia in the 1880s and 1890s? 
Seventy years after the events, historian Michael Cannon began sifting through thousands of records and documents, long since filed and forgotten. He pieced together an incredible trail of corruption and roguery, rarely if ever equalled in any parliamentary democracy. 
Never before had any Australian historian been able to document such unbridled greed and over-riding ambition. Extended and revised, The Land Boomers is generously illustrated with cartoons, photographs and etchings of the time.

The Land Boomers: The Complete Illustrated History

Business & Money

Economics

Melbourne University Publishing

Michael Cannon is best known as the author of landmark and popular works of Australian history, including The Land Boomers (1966), and as the founding editor of Historical Records of Victoria. But Cannon, the child and grandchild of important figures in Australian independent journalism, developed a fascination with print media early in his life and had a long and colourful career in printing, publishing and editing books, newspapers and magazines. In Cannon Fire he brings to life many notable personalities with whom he worked, including Keith and Rupert Murdoch, and recreates the ink-stained, cigarette-smoke-filled and always well-lubricated worlds of publishing across Melbourne and Sydney in the second half of the twentieth century. More than this, Cannon's intimate account of a life that began in the 1920s fascinates as both a personal story of unusual courage in the face of challenge and heartache, and as a tale of times now passing from memory.

Cannon Fire: A Life in Print

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Melbourne University Press

This is one of only 950 first editions printed.

The human face of the Great Depression

Todayʼs Australia Pub. Co

Australia: The Spirit of a Nation : A Bicentenary Album

Australia in Print

Australia, a History in Photographs

Viking O'Neil

Lachlans War

VIKING

An Australian camera, 1851-1914

David&Charles

Who killed the Koories?

Australia & Oceania

William Heinemann Australia

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