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HERES CHEERS A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF HOTELS TAVERNS AND INNS IN HOBART by DENNISON C J
a pictorial history of hotels, taverns & inns in Hobart
The old drawings photographs and sketches provide a fascinating glimpse into the many old pubs which were so much a part of Hobart's social life. At one stage in the mid nineteenth century, there was one pub for every sixteen houses.
Our Price $35.49
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CHING CHONG CHINA GIRL FROM FRUITSHOP TO FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT by CHUNG HELENE
Warning: Not to be read by convent girls not wearing their gloves.'Ching Chong Chinaman' girls taunted Helene Chung in her Catholic school playground. An Australian-born Chinese growing up in 1950s Hobart, Helene not only dealt with being different from her blonde-haired, blue-eyed classmates but suffered the shame of having divorced parents. And she kept a shocking secret - her mother, Miss Henry, was a nude model, who also lived in sin with a foreign devil and drove a red MG.Surviving the embarrassment of childhood, Helene discovered the thrill of the theatre, fell into journalism and travelled the world. She became the first non-white reporter on Australian TV and the first female posted abroad by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Ching Chong China Girlis filled with honesty, humour, love and loss, and gives insight into life that traverses cultures East and West.
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CHOSEN BY A HORSE by RICHARDS SUSAN
When Susan Richards agrees to take on one of the abused horses just rescued by the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a new chapter opens in her turbulent life. Caring for this astonishingly trusting creature, she begins a relationship that will change her view of the world.
Susan Richards lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; married unhappily and divorced, she had also become an alcoholic. At forty-three, she found herself living with just horses for company: the diva-like Georgia, boyish Tempo and hopeless romantic, Hotshot. While Susan is vainly attempting to capture the rescued horse assigned to her, a skeletal mare called Lay Me Down walks into the horse trailer of her own volition. Susan takes her home, and this broken and badly treated animal proves to her that trust is not just for dreamers.
Beautifully-written, poignant, and often sharply funny, this memoir is an inspiring must-read for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and anyone who has ever lost their way in life.
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