His display of extraordinary courage that day saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the first Australian to receive our highest award for bravery in wartime since Keith Payne in 1969. On 2 September 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second decision that would change his life. What started as an experiment soon became a way of life, then a campaign to alert others to the health damages of sugar. Sarah Wilson was a self-confessed sugar addict, eating the equivalent of 25 teaspoons of sugar every day, before making the link between her sugar consumption and a lifetime of mood disorders, fluctuating weight issues, sleep problems and thyroid disease. It is about a politician who was never given a fair go not in the media, not by Rudd, not by some in caucus. It focuses on Team Rudd and the media's treatment of its slow-death campaign of destabilisation, with its disastrous effect on Gillard and the government's functioning. This is the story about one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent Australian political history. The stalking of Julia Gillard by Kerry Anne Walsh In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, where every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others? And as the days to her execution draw closer, the question burns: did she or didn't she?īased on a true story, Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about personal freedom: who we are seen to be versus who we believe ourselves to be, and the ways in which we will risk everything for love. As the summer months fall away to winter and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes's ill-fated tale of longing and betrayal begins to emerge.
Only Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes's spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her, as he attempts to salvage her soul. Horrified to have a convicted murderess in their midst, the family avoids speaking with Agnes. In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men.Īgnes is sent to wait out the time leading to her execution on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters. And why, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love: love finds you. Why quick-dry clothes aren’t appropriate attire in New York. Why earlobe length is an inadequate predictor of sexual attraction. The Wife Project teaches Don some unexpected things. And on a quest of her own to find her biological father-a search that Don, a professor of genetics, might just be able to help her with. She is also fiery and intelligent and beautiful. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.
He just doesn’t know who to yet.īut he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. The winners of the 14th Australian Book Industry Awards were announced in Sydney last Friday night, 23 May.ĭon Tillman is getting married.
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