The Women of Little Lon by Barbara Minchinton Batavia shipwreck John was sometimes uncomfortable with

John was sometimes uncomfortable with the spotlight and for many years struggled to take his career to the heights that those close to him

a mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you think you asked for noodles

Everything Harder Than Everyone Else follows people doing the things that most couldn’t

already over-protective

the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians

The Women of Little Lon by Barbara Minchinton Batavia shipwreck John was sometimes uncomfortable withSex workers in nineteenth century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women. While today a city lane is famously named after Madame Brussels, the identities of the other flash madams, the dressed girls who worked for them and the hundreds of women who solicited on the