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It's Not You, It's Me by Allison Rushby
2 February, 2007 It’s Not You, It’s Me by Allison Rushby is the perfect ‘read-on-the-train-to-work’ book.
The Incomparable Captain Cadell by John Nicholson
2 February, 2007 Victorian Britain produced many a person who left their native shore, established outposts in the then British Empire and then demonstrated the hard work, tenacity and moral standards that made that age famous.
The Third Force: ANGAU's New Guinea War 1942-46 by Alan Powell
2 February, 2007 The 8th Military District Commander was Major General Basil Morris, a regular gunner not very highly regarded by his peers. Morris did, however, try to make a silk purse from a very tatty sow’s ear.
Imprint of the Raj by Chandak
2 February, 2007 Chandak Sengoopta is a very articulate writer with a delightfully wicked and somewhat sarcastic sense of humour. 
2 February, 2007 Hazel Green is an independent girl with fiercely held principles. Unpredictable and uncompromising, not always nice and often in trouble, she will go to extraordinary lengths to stand up for what she believes in.
Ichabod Hart and the Lighthouse Mystery by James Roy
2 February, 2007 Steampunk is apparently a big deal among fantasy readers. 
2 February, 2007 Internationally, there has been a generally favourable response to the author’s previous picture books, such as Big Bear, Little Bear and Big Bears Can! Bedford’s titles often explore the nature of relationships small children form with their caregivers, family members and first friends. 
2 February, 2007 A genuinely frightening mystery set in London at the close of the 1960s, The Walker tells the story of two young women facing a killer bent on imitating the work of Jack the Ripper.
Howard's War by Alison Broinowski
2 February, 2007 The Army’s Command and Staff College (C&SC) was based at Fort Queenscliff in Victoria from 1946 until it merged with the new Joint Command and Staff College in Canberra in 2000. 
2 February, 2007 Colleen McCullough's latest novel opens in Scotland in 1872, when 16-year-old Elizabeth Drummond departs for Australia to be married off to the notorious, talented Alexander Kinross who left Scotland some years earlier to make his fortune. 
2 February, 2007 The story, too, is unusual - combining history, folk-lore, adventure, religion and magic, all in a Chinese landscape and culture with which Smith clearly feels comfortably at home.
Horseman Pass by by Lindsay G. Baly
2 February, 2007 Lindsay Baly’s book of the Middle East campaigns fought by the Australian Light Horse in World War I is a delightful read. 
2 February, 2007 Something bad has happened at Evie’s high school. It has made her widely feared and disliked by the other students, some teachers and even her own mother. 
2 February, 2007 A Vietnam war veteran, Martin is living an isolated and detached life in Melbourne when a request from another veteran to keep quiet about a shocking wartime incident stirs up Martin's memories and has him questioning his life and how he lives. 
2 February, 2007 The Last Ride tells the story of a few crucial, life-changing days in the life of 10-year-old Chook and his father Kev. 
2 February, 2007 This brilliant first novel should make David Marr a happy man. 
2 February, 2007 Open the cover of Sandy McCutcheon's The Haha Man and be prepared for a mind-spinning adventure. 
2 February, 2007 In this sequel to Boy Overboard, Jamal and Bibi are now imprisoned in an Australian refugee camp. 
2 February, 2007 The yearning tone of this Miles Franklin short listed book lifted it from being an ordinary quest story to a novel that was a pleasure to read. 
2 February, 2007 It is the summer of 1960-61 and the West Indian cricket team is playing in Australia.
That Oceanic Feeling by Fiona Capp
2 February, 2007 This is a rarity - a book about surfing which combines writing that is both personal and personable, and that will be of interest to the non-surfer as well as the waxhead. 
2 February, 2007 In Giants of the Frost, the second instalment in her ‘Europa Suite’ trilogy, Wilkins again turns her hand to a unique blend of fantasy and the everyday. 
2 February, 2007 Catherine is a traveller who has never been able to settle anywhere for long. 
2 February, 2007 One of the first books produced by the new partnership between Curtin University Books and Fremantle Arts Centre Press, The Gates of Memory represents a significant new addition to the body of Australian writing on experiences of the First World War. |
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