by NRB | 22 Sep 2016 | Non-fiction |
The Drowned Man investigates a murder in the Australian Navy, mixing fact and imagination with varied results. Books are sometimes like buses. You wait 20 years for a book dealing with the murder committed aboard HMAS Australia in March 1942, and then three come along...
by NRB | 25 Aug 2016 | Non-fiction |
The Game of Their Lives is a compelling account of Australian Rules football and the men who played it in a time of war. Central to this story is the exhibition match played between teams from the Australian Imperial Force’s 3rd Division and the training units at...
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