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Living Art: Papua New Guinea- Susan Cochrane
Living Art: Papua New Guinea By Susan Cochrane Please use this link: Living Art: Papua New Guinea | Melbourne Books To get the discount,...


The Battle of the Bismarck Sea - Michael Veitch
During the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate attempt at controlling the South West Pacific. In the Battle of the...


Return to Volcano Town - R Wally Johnson & Neville A Threlfall, Reassessing the 1937–1943 Eruptions at Rabaul
This is an expanded, more detailed version of the book published by the same authors in 1985— Volcano Town: The 1937–43 Eruptions . That...


The Kiap’s Wife - Philip Fitzpatrick
When patrol officer Jack Forrest is transferred from the highlands to the backwaters of a sub-district somewhere on the coast of New...


Operation Postern: The Battle to Recapture Lae from the Japanese, 1943- Ian Howie-Willis
Some would say, what, another book on the taking of Lae? However, the author has produced one of the best modern campaign histories to...


A Dangerous Life- Marisa Jones
A Dangerous Land is an historical romance set in New Guinea during World War II. It attempts to showcase Australia’s colonial past in...


Lights on the Horizon- Philip Fitzpatrick
Editing Papua New Guinean writers can be complex because it deals with writers whose first language is usually not English. Editing often...


Decline and Regeneration - Philip Fitzpatrick
In Part I of this story the author described the early stages of the creation of a national literature In Papua New Guinea. Further...


Paradiso - Steve Capelin
PARADISO BY STEVE CAPELIN: A STORY OF ITALIAN EMIGRANTS AND A 19TH CENTURY SCAMDate and Tme: Friday 09 July 2021 6:30 PM – 7:30 PMWhere:...


The Volcano’s Wife: The Great Untold Story - Amalia Cowley and Pamela Virtue
This absorbing and heart-felt story will appeal to anyone with a soul and a love for Papua New Guinea and its people. It has some...
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