Based on extensive interviews with cane farmers in Far North Queensland the history of cane barracks between Mossman and Ingham, is narrated by the colourful characters who were the essence and energy of barrack culture and folklore. The cane barracks remain the most characteristic and enduring example of Tropical North Queensland architecture. These pioneers relate extraordinary stories of courage, corruption, disaster and determination, e.g. survival through Cyclone Larry

The Cane Barracks Story: The Cane Pioneers and Their Epic Jungle Sagas

Eugenie Navarre

Interactive Publications

this we can say: Australian Quaker Life, Faith and Thought

Prepared over a period of nearly 10 years, it is the distillation of the thoughts of around a thousand Quakers with an interest in spiritual subjects. It includes inspirational writings and personal stories about challenge and opportunity, which reflect on the geography and social history of Australia. Chapters are arranged under subject headings such as Experiences of the Spirit, Images of God, Silence and stillness, Faith in action, Prayer, Truthfulness and integrity, Simplicity and peace, Life stages and challenges and Indigenous people. This book can be used for personal study and meditation, for group work or just for inspiration. Also includes an extensive glossary, sources, index and history of the Quaker movement in Australia.

This We Can Say: Australian Quaker Life, Faith and Thought

The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Inc, Australia Yearly Meeting of

Religion & Spirituality

Explores Christian meditation and silence from theological, mystical, and practical viewpoints. Examines common experiences of the Quakers Meetings for Worship.

The Quaking Meeting

Christian Books & Bibles

Gould, Helen

Christian Living

Winner, Best Fiction IP Picks 2006. House of Given is a richly textured story illuminating the shifting boundaries of family trees and personal identity. Young Finbar, convinced that he is connected to this world by a mere thread, is determined to overcome obstacles of distrust and self-doubt, constructing his personal edifice not from earth or wood but out of story and imagination. As he assembles a multi-generational saga, he discovers that his bloodlines amount to a thousand and one interlocking narratives. In his Scheherazade-like attempt to stave off doom, he appoints himself a bard of parallel old cultures transplanted to an even older land. Inside each uncovered ancestry, he finds story at its core; forming part of family DNA and the atomic structure of every mythology and civilization. House of Given is an Australian novel for the new millennium, dovetailing a range of immigrant experiences with fresh insight into the Australian landscape. Essential for schools and libraries; perfect for students of cultural studies or history.

House of Given

Literature & Fiction

Collopy, Bill

Contemporary

She is a hunter of women brown eyes dilated, I watch her gracefully pouring tea. She smells of the chase, her blood-smeared nails assault you in the afternoon heat.

The Accidental Cage

Cahill, Michelle

Poetry

Back Burning

Petter, Sylvia

Literary

Chris Dowding lived a quiet, solitary life as an engineer in Brisbane that only began to change when he met his future wife Kerryn who, after their wedding, persuaded Chris to move to Ireland-to a new beginning. A Few Drops Short of a Pint is the hilarious account of Chris and Kerryn's Irish experience. Capturing Chris's fascinations, frustrations and fears (did you know 58 percent of all motor accidents in Dublin occur during the day, in high visibility conditions with dry weather, on a straight road?) in his new surroundings, the story covers Irish lifestyle issues ranging from water heating to violent political factionalism. While exploring Ireland, A Few Drops Short of a Pint is also a powerful story of self-exploration and discovery, showing that sometimes a change of circumstances is all the therapy we need. Jubilant and demoralised in equal measures, this is a story oozing with razor sharp (and often self-deprecating) wit that beautifully captures the experience of transplanting yourself into a foreign culture.

A Few Drops Short of a Pint

Travel

Dowding, Chris

Europe

Global Cooling

Teen & Young Adult

Reiter, David P.

"Articulate and endlessly curious, David Reiter sets no bounds to his taste for the world's many places, people, and happenings. These poems criss-cross Spain as well as the early Hemingway's life and texts, to create a colourful simulacrum of its invincible, fecund life and history." - Judith Rodriguez, Deakin University "Reiter's book bring[s] a panorama of lost worlds to the reader - from the Kremlin, to Flinder's Breaksea Island, from Norfolk Island markets... to Idaho. They stitch you into a tapestry blending a rather fine weave, with loose threads left hanging just to trip you up if you become complacent. 'Art does not insist. You must let the fragments/find voice and not worry so much about the gaps.'" - Bev Braune, Australian Book Review "What Reiter has done is more imaginative and more genuinely creative and ground-breaking because he has turned Spain not into a land of monuments that the poet reacts to and makes poems from but into a land of voices. Hemingway acts as a kind of guide but the voice is as likely to be that of a character from one of his novels as it is to be that of the writer. And Columbus, Charles the Fifth, Clint Eastwood, Miro, Picasso and a host of others get to speak as well. All of the themes of this 'voco-drama' interrelate because, as one poem says: 'the centuries / act in circles more often than straight lines'." - Martin Duwell, University of Queensland "Australia does have...a few who are masters of the poetic art... they include the great Les Murray, the splendid Phillip Salom and the challenging David P Reiter. Hemingway in Spain is the best example yet of Reiter's experiment with what he calls fusion poetry." - Michael Jacobson, Gold Coast Weekend Review

Hemingway in Spain

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

While written for children, Reiter s story, which was illustrated by Irish artist Patrick Murphy, confronts the topical issues of gun control and the effects of war on returning soldiers and their families. Reiter was motivated by his memory of growing up in the US, where guns were, and still are, part of everyday life. One day he discovered his father s hidden gun. It didn t go off as I cradled it, but it was only good luck that it didn t, Reiter explained. Many others aren t so lucky. I had to write about that. Reiter s story focuses on the relationship between Jon, a young boy fascinated by guns, and his father, a returned soldier. Jon discovers a loaded pistol in his father s bedroom, and is lucky to narrowly avoid the most tragic of consequences. The incident prompts his father to explain to Jon about guns and helps the two build a stronger relationship.

Real Guns

Children's Books

David P Reiter

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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