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The Australian Ark: A History of Domesticated Animals in Australia by Ian Parsonson (Secondhand Book)
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Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues: 30 Years, 1990-2020 by Adrian Jackson and Andra Jackson
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Walter Murdoch: A Biographical Memoir by John LaNauze (Secondhand Book)
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The Melbourne Design Guide edited by Vivian Stappmans and Ewan McEoin (Secondhand Book)
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Murder and Misfortune on the Mount Alexander Road: Essendon, Moonee Ponds, Ascot Vale and Flemington, 1840-1866. By Lenore Frost
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Norwood: It Changed the Face of Melbourne by Roland Johnson
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When The Past Awakens: A Mother’s Pain by Helena Kidd (Paperback)
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Analysing Australian History: From Custodianship to the Anthropocene (60 000 BCE–2010) by Richard Broome, James Grout, David Harris and Geoff Peel
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Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman by Barbara Minchinton with Philip Bentley
SHORTLISTED – NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2025
A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early Melbourne. Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego.
Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Caroline arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Left alone when her police-officer husband was sent to work in remote Victoria,
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