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The Adelaide Festival of Arts Writers' Week
A programme guide to each biennial festival. Later programs (1980- ) provide an alphabetical set of biographies for authors and poets, both Australian and overseas, attending the Adelaide Writers' Week; as well as the program for the Week.
Adelaide Writers' Week 2008
Programme of talks given as part of Adelaide Festival: Writers' Week 2008, Pioneer Womens' Memorial Gardens.
Adelaide Writers' Week, 1-6 March 1998
Provides an alphabetical set of biographies for 75 authors and poets, both Australian and overseas, attending the 1998 Adelaide Writers' Week as well as the program for the 1998 Adelaide Writers' Week.
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Writers' Week 2004 Programme
Programme of talks given as part of Adelaide Festival: Writers' Week 2004, Sunday Pioneer Womens' Memorial Gardens.
The Golden Age
Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017 A moving story about transition between illness and recovery, childhood and maturity, life and death. Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold's family escaped from Hungary and the perils of WW2 to the safety of Australia, but not long after their arrival Frank is diagnosed with polio. Sent to a sprawling children's hospital called The Golden Age, he nds Elsa, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, and a vocation for poetry. Frank and Elsa fall in love, fuelling one another's rehabilitation and facing the perils of polio and adolescence hand in hand. Meanwhile Frank and Elsa's parents must cope with their changing realities. Margaret, who has sacri ced everything to be a perfect mother, must reconcile her hopes and dreams with her daughter's illness. Frank's parents are isolated newcomers in a country they don't love. Ida, a renowned pianist in Hungary, refuses to allow the western deserts of Australia to become her home, while her husband Meyer slowly begins to free himself from the past and nd his place in the Perth of the early 1950s.
Where Song Began
An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia’s distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the birds of Australia flew beyond the continent’s boundaries and around the globe many millions of years ago. This eye-opening book tells the dynamic but little-known story of how Australia provided the world with songbirds and parrots, among other bird groups, why Australian birds wield surprising ecological power, how Australia became a major evolutionary center, and why scientific biases have hindered recognition of these discoveries. From violent, swooping magpies to tool-making cockatoos, Australia’s birds are strikingly different from birds of other lands—often more intelligent and aggressive, often larger and longer-lived. Tim Low, a renowned biologist with a rare storytelling gift, here presents the amazing evolutionary history of Australia’s birds. The story of the birds, it turns out, is inseparable from the story of the continent itself and also the people who inhabit it.
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