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Mrs. M by Luke Slattery
Category: Fiction
From one of Australia's foremost journalists, Luke Slattery, comes a rich, intense novel of desire and dashed dreams, and one passionate, unforgettable woman - Elizabeth Macquarie. 'A richly evocative piece of historical fiction...beautifully written.' Good Weekend Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disg ...Show more
Mrs. M by Jennifer Vuletic (Read by); Luke Slattery
Category: Audio
Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the reformist Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning - not only for her husband but also the loss of their shared dream to transform the penal colony into a bright new world. Over the course of one long sleepless night on the windswept Scottish islan ...Show more
Mrs. M by Luke Slattery
Category: Fiction
From one of Australia's foremost journalists, Luke Slattery, comes a bravura literary achievement, a rich and intense novel of an imagined history of desire, ambition and dashed dreams, and a portrait of one passionate, unforgettable woman - Elizabeth Macquarie. Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgrac ...Show more
Reclaiming Epicurus: How an Ancient Philosophy of Happiness Could Save the World (Penguin Specials) by Luke Slattery
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Specials
Epicureanism has been diluted into a byword for gourmet dining, but does the original ancient Greek 'philosophy of the Garden' contain insight that could save the world? Luke Slattery argues that reading Epicurus could help us rethink our materialist ways and challenge the inevitability of man-made clim ...Show more
The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery
Category: Australian History | Series: Penguin Specials
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go'. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay in ...Show more
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