Marija lives in a small village on the idyllic island of Korčula off the coast near Split in the country now known as Croatia. At 18 years of age she agrees to a proxy marriage to a 27-year-old sugarcane farmer in Far North Queensland who had left the village as a small child with his family in the 1920s. The couple do not know each other, having only exchanged photographs and a handful of letters, but this marriage is Marija's escape from a traumatised post-war Europe. Her childhood is scarred by constant fear, with death and brutality stalking the island after it is occupied, first by the Italian army and later by the Nazis. Marija's older sister joins the Partisan rebels as a codebreaker for General Tito, while Marija and her younger sister and father secretly help the Partisans hiding in the hills, with intelligence on the enemy.A life in Australia with a husband she does not know is a risk worth taking. She travels by ship to Australia along with hundreds of other young men and women seeking escape from poverty and despair in the old world to the promise of adventure, love and a better life. Finding herself sharing a farmhouse with a hostile father-in-law far removed from neighbours, in the midst of cane fields in tropical Queensland, was only bearable as she fell in love with her devoted husband, created her own family and with it, a future for the next generations in the new country.This is the migrant story of Australia, of courageous individuals taking the biggest risk of their lives often with little or no English. Their determination and hard work enable them to live with their sacrifices and overcome the profound loneliness of homesickness. The result is the rich diversity of our modern multicultural nation.

The girl who left: From Croatia to the canefields

Biographies & Memoirs

Debra Gavranich

Memoirs

Wild Dingo Press

Once a Copper: The life and times of Brian `The Skull` Murphy

Petraitis, Vikki

Professionals & Academics

Olfat Mahmoud's confronting autobiography asks when the world will deliver on its promise and allow her people to return home to Palestine. 
Olfat Mahmoud is a stateless Palestinian refugee. Born in a refugeecamp in Lebanon, she is a descendant of the Christian and Muslim people who were forced from their homeland at gunpoint by the Israeli military in the 1948's Nakba, 'Catastrophe', and who fled Palestine in the period leading up to - and after - the subsequent founding of the state of Israel in 1948. 
Tears for Tarshiha follows Olfat's career - as a registered nurse, the director of an international NGO, an internationally recognised peace activist, and most recently, the recipient of a doctorate - amid the death and destruction of Lebanon's many conflicts; she chronicles the Palestinian people's remarkable capacity for love and bravery in the most extreme conditions. Olfat's extraordinary story is emblematic of the Palestinian plight, illustrating their continued survival and determination that has become an inconvenience to the international community.

Tears for Tarshiha

Cooper, Dani

Mahmoud, Olfat

McCue, Helen

Historical

Nagaland: A Love Story for Modern India

Literature & Fiction

Doherty, Ben

Literary

A Long Way from No Go

Goreng Goreng, Tjanara

Szego, Julie

Community & Culture

Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart 
of a family caught in the chaos that sweeps across an ancient land and its people in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Exquisitely written, Azar is the consummate storyteller, using the panoply of Persian mythical and mystical entities to bring life, humour, hope, resignation, and profound insights to the characters and their world. 
It is simultaneously confronting and transcendent.

اشراق درخت گوجه سبز The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree: Farsi Edition (Iranian Languages Edition)

Azar, Shokoofeh

I'm fine (and other lies)

Blandford, Megan

Religion & Spirituality

In 1999, scenes of Milosevic's 'ethnic cleansing' play out on television screens all over the world; haunted figures huddled behind barbed wire fences, bodies heaped in ditches. Leaving his wife and son in Adelaide, Craig Jurisevic flies to the Balkans under the auspices of the International Medical Corps. His determination to put his skills to the best possible use leads him closer and closer to the frontline, and deeper into danger. 
Blood on My Hands, co-written with award-winning author Robert Hillman, tells a story of terrible suffering, of extraordinary heroism, and of the savagery that lies coiled in the human heart.

Blood on my hands: A surgeon at war

Hillman,Robert

Jurisevic, Craig

The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

THE RUGMAKER OF MAZAR-E-SHARIF

Science & Math

NAJAF MAZARI & ROBERT HILLMAN

Biological Sciences

A collection of stories from an Afghan refugee. Folk tales and legends that were told by his family.

The honey thief

Mazari, Najaf

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