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The Hum of Concrete

Nassrin is consumed with despair. Susanna takes a stand. Bodil sees the city by starlight. Estella meets her half brother. Lonely Ryhme seeks shelter in a tree full of fairy lights. And all round them, the hum of concrete.


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On Dangerous Ground: A Gallipoli Story

Eagerly awaited, one of Australia’s leading historians uses fact and fiction to recreate the most dramatic moments of the Gallipoli campaign. On Dangerous Ground is fast-paced, accurate and thrilling – a retelling of one of the weightiest moments of the twentieth century.


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Climate Change & Australia

Expert authors demystify the confusion surrounding climate change which comes from inconsistent media reports, complex scientific data & terminology, alarming & often paralysing predictions. A clear balanced account of the science of climate change & how it is affecting Australia & the world, & the policy options available.


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The Hanging Garden

Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bond as they negotiate the dangers of life as strangers abandoned on the far side of the world.


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UNSWriting & Sydney Writers Festival Present...

Jesmyn Ward author of Salvage the Bones, in conversation with UNSW Creative Writing lecturer and novelist Stephanie Bishop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salvage the Bones is a big-hearted novel about familial love and community set in the twelve days before a massive hurricane hits the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. A wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty in the American South muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real.

Wednesday 16 May @ 7pm at the Io Myers Studio, UNSW.

Please RSVP here for this free event.