by NRB | 1 Feb 2022 | Non-fiction |
As a single-volume history of the growth and development of Australian football, Australia’s Game has much to recommend it. When a book consists of 784 pages and 54 chapters, it’s a big book. But when it also contains 2517 endnotes and has a bibliography that includes...
by NRB | 15 Sep 2016 | Non-fiction |
This is an outstanding biography of Australian lithium pioneer John Cade, whose life merits major recognition. Let’s start with a statistic. The year 1948 marked a peak for deaths in Melbourne asylums, 183 at the Royal Park Mental Hospital alone, and John Cade kept a...
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