Books tagged: colonial australia

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Hung Out To Dry    by Rod Chadbourne
Price: $4.95 USD. 63360 words. Published on November 9, 2010. .

In the small Australian bush town of Manton during the 1880s, thirteen year old Sinead Malone receives a marriage proposal from local publican Karl Unworth, a man with a past and three times her age. Sinead has no interest in men like Unworth, let alone marriage. But Unworth has powerful friends and seven years later there is homicide, the criminal court, injustice and tragedy.
Letters of a Convict Girl, Age 11    by Kate Walker
Price: $0.99 USD. 8030 words. Published on December 6, 2011. .

Rosie O’Brien, a girl of 11, is sentenced to 14 years in prison and transported to the far off Colony of New South Wales. Alone in this wild, new world, she has only herself and her faith to reply on. Her letters home record the trials, hardships and miracles that befall her. Somewhere in this wild new land is her convict father, but can she find him? Is he even alive?
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism - including full original text by Lenin    by Rupert Matthews
Price: $0.99 USD. 37930 words. Published by Bretwalda Books  on January 20, 2012. .

Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" was published in the summer of 1917. Although one of Lenin's shorter works, it is widely recognised as being one of his most immediately influential. The introduction by historian Rupert Matthews sets the book in its historic setting and explains why it was such a profoundly influential work when it first came out.