A Guide To Australian Folklore: From Ned Kelly To Aeroplane JellyBy Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham SealSimon & Schuster, $29.95 pb, 310pp, 0 7318 1075 9
Two of Australia’s authorities on folklore have drawn on many years of research to produce this new reference book. An alphabetical listing of events, beliefs, characters, places, activities and allusions, it is more than a dictionary, often ... (read more)
Lolla Stewart
Lolla Stewart is an educator, freelance reviewer and fiction writer.
What is resilience? And why is it an important subject for research? Anne Deveson – former royal commissioner, noted documentary maker and social justice activist – explores these questions in her latest book. Human resilience is linked to courage, love, defiance and stoicism, and enables us to come through suffering with integrity. It requires hope and produces strength and action, while its ... (read more)