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THE COURAGE TO LOVE: Amanda Hickey reviews Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone

Review by Amanda Hickey Edited by Robyn Cadwallader What is it about war that can rapidly bring men to the point of love? In their everyday lives they may have …

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Amanda HickeyBodies of MenNigel Featherstone

AHEAD OF HER TIME: Verity Fitzhardinge Remembered

Review by Amanda Hickey Edited By Robyn Cadwallader Verity Fitzhardinge (née Hewitt) was a woman of all seasons: as a writer she crafted poems, articles, letters, book reviews, books and …

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A Nice Quiet Tourist: Letters from a journey to AfghanistanAmanda HickeyRobert LehaneVerity FitzhardingeVerity HewittVerity: A remarkable woman’s journey

Tobruk to Labuan: the life and letters of Brigadier ‘Hugh’ Norman (Amanda Hickey)

As to the war souvenirs From Hugh to Ethel 7 November, 1943 Darling…If you must destroy the letters I suppose you must, but one day I thought we might write …

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Amanda HickeyANZACSColin ‘Hugh’ Boyd NormanTobruk to Labuan

SPEAKING THE UNNAMEABLE AND UNKNOWABLE: Meera Atkinson’s The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma

Reviewed by Amanda Hickey Edited by Robyn Cadwallader In her timely book, Meera Atkinson opens with a few unpalatable facts about our society and the world we live in. Fact …

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Amanda HickeyMeera AtkinsonThe Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma

OUTSIDERS, INSIDE OUT (Amanda Hickey)

(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) Your own eyes are king. —Estonian Proverb                Sydney, 1991 I looked for her first in the garden where she would often be working—planting, weeding or …

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WHAT SPARK IGNITES AN ACTIVIST? khulud khamis’s Haifa Fragments

Review by Amanda Hickey What is the spark that ignites an activist? Is it an event, a family grievance, a brush stroke of history? Or an undeniable truth that breaks …

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What Lies at the Core of a Successful Family: Nigel Featherstone’s The Beach Volcano

Review by Amanda Hickey The Albury family of Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay are about money and social standing, and although they appear prickly and self-absorbed, it is the father’s eightieth birthday …

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Amanda HickeyNigel FeatherstoneThe Beach Volcano

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