Flash Jim:

Flash Jim:The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict. These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and convicts had marine officer Watkin Tench complaining

and for anyone interested in learning more about Warlpiri language and culture

And an unforgettable portrait of New York

the secrets of the river

These ancient narratives of landscape have often been described as a means of navigating across vast distances without a map

This heartwarming picture book for all ages explores questions about the intangible yet unbreakable connections between us

even Senior Victorian Australian of the Year

for The Mortal Bone and Tiger Eye

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Acid and Heat

Kate Forsyth is an award-winning and bestselling author

tragedy and sorrow

a nineteen-year-old with an undiagnosed