I Like It Like That by Claire CalmanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 589kbOverview: Georgia Abrams, the heroine of Claire Calman’s third novel I Like it Like That, leads a black-and-white kind of life, her clothes come in shades of monochrome, her flat is tiny, tidy and neat and her boyfriend is ‘Stephen with a p-h’. Her family […]
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen by George McCalman Requirements: .ePUB reader, 249 MBOverview: A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers—famous and little-known—in politics, science, literature, music, and more—with biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer. Illustrated Black History is a breathtaking collection of […]
Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900–1965 by Janet McCalmanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 0.7 MBOverview: ‘The old Struggletowners, if they could see it now, would not believe their eyes.’ In Struggletown, Janet McCalman takes us into the inner-city industrial working-class suburb of Richmond, in Melbourne, before the gentrification of the 1970s. This is a narrative […]
Sunny Side Up: a story of kindness and joy by Susan CalmanRequirements: .MOBI reader, 822kbOverview: The Calmanifesto of Happiness. Comedian and broadcaster Susan Calman danced her way across our screens and into our hearts for 10 weeks on Strictly Come Dancing 2017, but how did this ability to find joy change her life? Susan Calman’s […]
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by Janet McCalmanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 5.0 MBOverview: From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria It was meant to be ‘Victoria the Free’, uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as […]