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The Hungry Empire by Lizzie Collingham (Bodley Head)
“Saturday 18 July 1545 was a fish day on the Mary Rose” I SUSPECT if you went back in time the most difficult thing you would encounter might be the food, an argument given more than a little weight by … Continue reading
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Tagged british empire, history, lizzie collingham
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Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar (Gallic)
“Mama often talked of this house when I was a child, and of its squirrels with particular fondness.” WE are in the grand manner of the novel as literary artifice, a swell of sentences, characters in the rough, an anchored … Continue reading
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Tagged adelaide, australia, history, immigrants, settlers
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