Charles Emery – A Potted History
Christened 11th Jan 1824 at Old Church, St Pancras (or, at St Pancras, Oldchurch?). Charles was born at Kentish Town London, and educated in Swancombe, Kent and for a brief…
Charles Emery, A Queenstown Pioneer
Adelaide “Observer, Aug 10, 1907″ An old pioneer of the state is Mr. Charles Emery, of Queenstown, who was born in Kentish Town, London, on December 12 1823. After a…
Arthur King Emery – A Potted History
From an Adelaide newspaper article April 1914 Mr. A.K. Emery is one of the surviving few who have vivid recollections of the time when the population of Hindmarsh and the…
Renmark Community Hotel March 9, 1950
Sir, your correspondent, Mr. W. H. Rose, in the “South Western News” of 2nd March, leads me to believe that his examination of the results attained by the Renmark Community…
The Reality of Sara Douglass
She’s been a nurse, an academic and a Mills & Boon Hack. Now a fantasy writer with more than 300,000 books sold in Australia alone, she’s on the verge of…
Bob Warneke – A Potted History
Robert James Warneke was born at home, Clare Street, Portland, Adelaide, on Friday, August 20th, 1915. He was the second son, and fourth child, of John Helmuth David Wameke and…
Elinor Lees – A Potted History
Elinor Mary Lees was born on Thursday September 16th, 1920, at the Vallis Nursing Home in North Kensington, Adelaide. She was the only child of Frances May Leak and Douglas…
There Be Dragons
Mythical quests, moral certainties, happy endings … they’re the ingredients that keep the fans of fantasy fiction queuing for more. The genre answers Life’s Big Questions, its authors say. And…
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