The Fatal Shore

Robert Hughes

"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was...

Zen Mamas - Finding Your Path Through Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond

Sarah Wright Olsen; Teresa Palmer

Being Zen(ish) is what we call it - and it's the ish that we endorse!Teresa Palmer and Sarah Wright Olsen are two mums from opposite sides of the world who are doing their best to raise happy, empathetic children while working, travelling and maintaining their sanity. With six kids between them, the fou...

A Nation of Women - An Early Feminist Speaks Out

Luisa Capetillo; Félix V. Matos Rodríguez (Editor, Introduction by); Alan West-Durán (Translator)

The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo A Penguin Classic In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion e...