Enter the draw to win a 3 book pack featured in the June/July/August edition of 50 something magazine, including:
White Butterflies, Colin McPhedran
The new edition of this bestselling Australian classic (NewSouth Books) recalls McPhedran’s pre-war childhood as part of a large Anglo-Burmese family, the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941 and his extraordinary trek to freedom. Eleven-year-old Colin fled his homeland on foot across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges to safety in India. This edition seeks to answer questions from readers who wrote in their hundreds to Colin, who died in 2010, asking what happened afterwards? It also reveals new information about the man who rescued him.
Enter the draw to win a 3 book pack featured in the June/July/August edition of 50 something magazine, including:
White Butterflies, Colin McPhedran
The new edition of this bestselling Australian classic (NewSouth Books) recalls McPhedran’s pre-war childhood as part of a large Anglo-Burmese family, the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941 and his extraordinary trek to freedom. Eleven-year-old Colin fled his homeland on foot across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges to safety in India. This edition seeks to answer questions from readers who wrote in their hundreds to Colin, who died in 2010, asking what happened afterwards? It also reveals new information about the man who rescued him.
Miss Muriel Matters, Robert Wainwright
In 1909, an Australian actress made headlines when she took to the sky over London in a plane emblazoned with the slogan Votes for Women. Just months earlier, Muriel became the first woman to make a speech in the British House of Commons. She went on to become one of the most famous suffragists of her day. In Miss Muriel Matters (ABC Books), bestselling writer Robert Wainwright discovers an extraordinary woman full of intelligence, passion and bravery who fought for women’s rights in a world far from equal.
Against All Odds, Danielle Steel
In Against All Odds (Pan Macmillan Australia), Kate Madison’s stylish second-hand clothing shop has been a big success in New York, supporting her and her four kids since her husband’s death. Now her children have grown up, they are ready to forge lives of their own but they all choose to play against the odds, much to their mother’s dismay. Can the odds be beaten? Not often - as her children have to learn for themselves.
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