Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr

Killing for Country: A Family Story by David MarrA gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result a soul searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world of land seized, fortunes made and lost, and the violence let loose as squatters and their allies fought for

Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage

and they must hold a party to celebrate

Meleika Gasa-Fatafehi

she did get on a train to Norway without telling anyone where she was going - but she had to help Binky

the spectres of memory and the debris of settler-coloniality

Food gardening is the most intelligent adult endeavour on earth - Lolo Houbein shows you how to do it

each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart

legends and the secrets that hide beyond the trees

Tim Probert has created a world readers will want to visit

If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history

Sidney Kidman ran away from home and worked as an odd-job boy in a grog shanty in outback Australia

as well as a recasting of a literary classic that gives a maligned character her own voice