‘It got better, in time, though if she were to be truthful it always felt more of a duty than a pleasure: a little like homework, satisfying when over, and done well, but never exactly enjoyable. But then nobody had ever suggested it could be otherwise.’ This was the view of Claudia Faraday, respectable wife and mother of three, on the subject of sex. That is until an unexpected visit from a colleague of her absent husband’s shakes her out of her torpor in a most surprising, not to say unlikely way, and spurs her to start keeping a diary that has remained hidden for nearly 100 years. The diary reveals a woman venturing into the outside world of the 1920s with a fresh mind and an updated attitude, prompted to re-evaluate the lives of her family and her friends and, ultimately, herself. As she does so she discovers, as Marie Stopes might have said: Approached in the right way, even homework can be fun.

The Unlikely Adventures of Claudia Faraday

Romance

Trench, Patsy

Historical

Prefab Publications

"Set against the backdrop of the Australian migrant experience, 'The Worst Country in the World' is not only a great read but a thought-provoking one too, especially for those with links to Australia, which reinvented itself from a convict colony to one of the 'luckiest' countries in the world." Karen Clare, Family Tree magazine. In 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow and mother of five, left her home in Fiddleford in Dorset to sail across the world to live in a penal colony in a country that was then considered by its recent arrivals to be the worst country in the world. Colonial New South Wales was then barely fourteen years old, an experiment that looked as if it was going to fail. What on earth made her go there? The Worst Country in the World is a story about the early days of colonial Australia as seen through the eyes of Mary and her family of free settlers. It tells how the country that was originally considered not fit to be lived in struggled to become the 'lucky' country it is now. It is a personal story told by Mary's descendant, an Englishwoman who once lived in Australia and has a deep affection for it, whose own Australian mother reversed the wheel and migrated back to England to reinvent herself as the archetypal Englishwoman. It is about struggle and snobbery, reinvention and revaluation.

The Worst Country in the World: The true story of an Australian pioneer family

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

In the 19th century Australia went from a penal colony struggling to survive to a thriving, prosperous community with a glowing future. George Matcham Pitt's life spanned the best part of that century. A larger than life character with a booming voice and a fondness for quoting from classic poets, GM, as he was known, began as a working farmer on the Hawkesbury and went on to become an auctioneer, landowner and founder of one of Australia's first and best-known stock and station agents, Pitt, Son & Badgery. Friend to everyone bar politicians, GM had close family contacts with Aboriginal people and even closer connections with convicts. Now his great great granddaughter, a Pom based in London, sets out to tell the story of this remarkable man and the extraordinary country he lived in: a land of indigenous Australians, squatters and swagmen, convicts and free settlers, battlers, chancers, explorers and entrepreneurs. These were the men and women who transformed Australia from what had been considered by westerners the worst country in the world to a country to be reckoned with.

A Country To Be Reckoned With: The true story of Australia's pioneer stock agent (Australia: a personal story)

Pref Publications

Mrs Morphett's Macaroons (Modern women: breaking the mould)

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Neilsen

Who's going to be "The Money Champ"? Scrooge, Flintheart Glomgold, and a witch doctor battle it out in Carl Barks' feature-length classic — and an all-new Don Rosa pin-up! Three wild Christmas tales fill out the issue. In "The Madness of King Scrooge," McDuck must feign generosity for a Billionaires' Club fundraiser. In "The Great Lot Plot," a winter swindler engages Donald to sell his rigged real estate. And in Janet Gilbert's "Scrooge's Workshop," Scrooge brings modern business methods to Santa's toy factory. Ho-ho... uh-ho!

Uncle Scrooge #382

Comics & Graphic Novels

Gilbert, Janet

Hansegård, Jens

Bartholomew, Bob

Barks,Carl

Comic Strips

Gemstone Publishing

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