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Stories of Australian life.

Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia.

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Stories of Australian life.

Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia.

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Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia.

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About the Author

Sally Morgan was born in Perth, in 1951. She has published books for both adults and children, including her acclaimed autobiography, My Place. She has also established a national reputation as an artist and has works in many private and public collections. A.B. Facey (1894–1982) was born and grew up on the Kalgoorlie Goldfields and the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. He went out to work when he was eight years old, and was droving in the North-West at fourteen. He had no formal education and originally wrote his acclaimed autobiography, A Fortunate Life, for his family. Elizabeth Jolley (1923–2007) was born in the industrial Midlands of England and came to Western Australia in 1959 with her husband. She published twenty-three books, including novels, short fiction, poetry, non-fiction and plays. Celebrated as one of Australia's major writers, she also established a formidable international reputation, with her books being widely published throughout the world. She received an Order of Australia for services to Australian literature and was awarded honorary doctorates from four universities. Elizabeth Backhouse was born in Western Australia in 1917. She served with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force before beginning work as a scriptwriter. Her works include films, novels, plays and children's stories. Michal Bosworth was born in New Zealand in 1944 and had her first experience as a migrant in 1952 when she moved with her parents and brother to live in Brisbane. In later years she lived in England and Italy where she discovered not everyone spoke Australian. Most recently she moved to Western Australia, where she lives with her family in Perth. Since 1965 she has worked as an historical researcher and writer for a variety of employers and publishers. She has also written books for school children, articles about women, and has gathered together recipes of traditional Italian dishes with the help of a friend. Working with Emma Ciccotosto has been an extension of her abiding interest in women's history and the history of food. Emma Ciccotosto was born in Italy in 1926 and migrated to Western Australia with her parents in 1939. Ron Davidson was born into a Perth newspaper family and served his time as a journalist. He failed first-year English at The University of Western Australia three times before giving up and taking a psychology degree. Ron lectured in Psychology for twenty years and published academic papers before rediscovering the family knack of storytelling. Faye Davis was born in Western Australia and grew up in the Swan Valley with a very strong sense of place for the region where her great-grandparents first settled in the last century. She still finds herself drawn to write about the area, though she has lived now for many years in Gooseberry Hill. Connie Ellement (1912–1992) was born near Boulder, Western Australia and spent most of her early childhood in orphanages. She became interested in writing while translating books into Braille and her first book, The Divided Kingdom (with Ron Davidson), was published thirty-five years after she began writing it. Kenneth Gasmier was born in Western Australia in 1949, where he spent his early years in the Wheatbelt and other country areas. He works as librarian at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He has published short fiction in Australian literary journals, newspapers and anthologies. Thomas Arthur Guy Hungerford was born in 1915 and grew up in South Perth. He was a soldier who served in World War II before travelling to Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force after the war. In 1948 he moved to Canberra where he worked for the Australian War Memorial and began to write. He is the author of four major novels and numerous poems but is perhaps best known for his short stories. He received an Order of Australia for services to Australian Literature in 1987 and the Patrick White Award in 2002. Gail Jones lives in Sydney. She has written short stories and novels and has been short listed for major national and international awards such as the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Vasso Kalamaras was born in Athens and arrived in Western Australia in 1950 where she still lives, with frequent visits back to Greece. She holds degrees from various tertiary institutions in Perth and she taught Greek language for 20 years. Her publications include poetry, prose and plays. Her prose has been highly anthologised in Australia and abroad and her plays have been performed in mainstream theatres. John Lane was born in Sydney in 1948. The first of a Yorkshire emigrant family to be born in Australia. He is a life-long surfer and has travelled extensively throughout the United States, Central America, England and Europe. He is now retired, and lives with his wife, Mary, in the beach community of Nelson Bay on the New South Wales mid coast. Simone Lazaroo won the WA Premier's Award for fiction for all three of her published novels, and has been short listed for national and international awards. Joan Elizabeth London is an award-winning Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels. She was born in Perth, Western Australia. She graduated from the University of Western Australia having studied English and French, has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller. She is the author of two collections of stories and has published two novels, Gilgamesh and The Good Parents.She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia. Pat Malcolm grew up around the wheatbelt town of Bruce Rock and left school when she was 14. Since then she has worked in the north-west of Western Australia in hotels and on fishing boats, as a prospector, as a nurse and as a cook on stations and mining camps. She lives in Broome and is the mother of seven children. Bill Marks is the author of The Fall of the Dice. John A. McKenzie is the author of Challenging Faith. Jack McPhee was born around 1905 in the Pilbara of north Western Australia. His mother's name was Mary and her traditional name was Marduwanyjawurru. Jack McPhee belonged to the Garimarra skin group and his family name was Yirrabinyah. Throughout his life he gained a great deal of respect and friendship from many while working as a stockman before the introduction of motor vehicles, gold and tin prospecting, mechanical work, as a blacksmith and truck driver.During his life, Jack McPhee witnessed the introduction of the Exemption Certificate and Citizenship, the end of the First and Second World War, improvements in the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and a number of other milestone events in Australian history. Jack McPhee worked hard to raise his family and had six children who attended school in Marble Bar. Connie Miller left school in Perth at the age of 15 to become an apprentice tailoress. She studied at night school and later (during the early years of the Second World War) completed a Master of Arts at the University of Western Australia under Sir Walter Murdoch. She had taught in the country and the metropolitan area during and after the Depression years of the 1930s.In the 1940s she learnt to fly and service small aircraft. In 1943, Miller moved to Melbourne where she worked for Australian Naval Intelligence. She returned to Western Australia after the war and lived in Kalgoorlie for a time before moving again to Perth. During this time she raised her family and taught creative writing and ballroom dancing. She has travelled extensively through Australia, South East Asia and Europe. Associated with the Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA), her friends included its foundation president, John K Ewers (q.v.) and his wife Jean. Kim Scott is a multi-award winning Noongar author from Western Australia. He began writing for publication when he became an English teacher and has had poetry and short stories published in a number of anthologies. Kim’s Benang was the first novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award, and in 2011, he won both the Miles Franklin and the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal with That Deadman Dance. In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and also named Western Australian of the Year.Scott's novel Taboo won both the Indigenous Writers' Prize and the Book of the Year in the 2018 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Joyce Shiner is the author of The Way It Was, an autobiography recounting the experiences of a young woman and her family as they struggle to establish themselves on the land in south-west Western Australia during WWII. Imelda P. Smith is the author of A Small Fish: Memoirs of a Survivor. Justina Williams is the pen name of author June Williams. June was born in Western Australia in 1914. She has worked as a journalist, broadcaster and writer. In 1996 she was awarded the Order of Australia medal for her services to the community as a writer. Beverley Dunn is one of Australia's most distinguished actresses. Her acclaimed work in theatre, television, radio and film has taken her all over Australia and overseas. Among her many television credits are two years in The Flying Doctors, and she also toured Australia for hit stage productions of Hotel Sorrento and A Happy and Holy Occasion, which won her a Green Room Award in 1993. She was also the narrator of White Eye by Blanche d'Alpuget, the 1994 TDK Australian Audio Book of the Year, and White Coolies by Betty Jeffrey, which was shortlisted at the Audie awards and won the Golden Ears award. James Wright has been a professional actor for over 30 years. He was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia in 1972. He has had a successful career on stage, in film, television and as a voice artist for many commercials, corporate videos and documentaries. James has been narrating audiobooks for nearly 20 years. He has been short-listed in the TDK Audio Book of the Year awards twice and in 1997 he was awarded the Trish Trinick Prize for the Best-Narrated Audio Book of the Year.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bolinda Publishing | Bolinda Audio Books
Published
20th January 2013
ISBN
9781489479549

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