I've got a copy of Isabel Maud Peacocke's *Robin of the Round House* (1918) if anyone wants it ( Read more... )

I finally understand a passage from Mary Grant Bruce's *Back to Billabong* about 'war flour'. Apparently gluten was taken out of war flour and put into munitions. Of course, this just poses another question - why ( Read more... )

Clare Bradford, in *Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature* (2001) points out some of the difference between the 1910 and 1992 versions of A Little Bush Maid. (The later was altered to try to remove some of the racism ( Read more... )

Anyone interested in a copy?

I ordered an Ethel Turner that I don't have with my birthday money. Then it got lost. So I ordered a copy again from someone else ( Read more... )

2.31 Melissa Lucashenko, Too Flash (2002 ( Read more... )

I have just read a fascinating article - Robyn Emerson's *Requiem for A Little Bush Maid*, published in *Southerly* in 2008 ( Read more... )

*Earthyself* has kindly converted my copy of the 1990s film of *Golden Fiddles* to an electronic format I can see.

The film is... interesting. It has some characters with the same names as in Mary Grant Bruce's novel, but apart from that... an entirely new text.

I bought a copy of the South Australian film version of *Golden Fiddles* from the early 90s. It's only available on video second hand ( Read more... )

I have been rereading the *Tomorrow, When the War Began* series. As I've mentioned before, I think Marsden draws on the Billabong books by Mary Grant Bruce. The Norah Linton/Ellie Linton parallel is pretty clear ( Read more... )