Frances S Murphy

Desert, Bamboo, and Barbed Wire: The 1939-45 Story of a Special Detachment of Australian Army Nursing Sisters, Fondly Known as the Angels in Grey, and Their Fate in War and Captivity

The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism

For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts—above all, "objectivity"—seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement away from this ...

A Brief History of Australia

Taking a largely chronological approach, A Brief History of Australia looks at social, cultural, economic, and political trends in the country's long history, shedding light on its unique and complex identity. Beginning with the peopling of the continent about 60,000 years ago, the volume examines t...

Runaway Alice

Fiction