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John Hughes writes in The Idea of Home that 'What we feel homesick for . . . is not a place itself, but the unrecoverable moment of leaving that place, and the fact that it is never the same place to which we return.'These stories by Mark MacLean are about the idea of home, our sense of place and about landscape and memory. Whether we're in the deserts of Australia or the north of England, we long for the places we are not. We envy the world traveller and the ninety-year-old living in the home she was born in with equal measure. We cherish the places known as much as the places imagined and the places remembered. The new landscapes are the old landscapes revisited.This collection includes 'Unte nthenharenye?' which was a runner up in the The University of Sydney's David Harold Tribe Fiction Award Mark MacLean is an award-winning writer who lives in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales.

The first book length history of air pollution in Newcastle, NSW, from 1804 to the present. It uses two approaches: scientific and cultural. The science looks at particle matter: the fine particles created by burning fuel or windblown dust which make up air pollution. Drawing on historical sources, the cultural approach analyses how Novocastrians and visitors perceive air pollution. Taken together, the scientific and cultural lenses provide a new perspective on what has been a defining issue for Newcastle over 200 years. The book also looks to the future, focusing on attempts to manage the air pollution problem.Newcastle, NSW, was long known as the ''smoky city''. Many Novocastrians remember when the BHP dominated the skyline and acrid hazes would regularly descend on the inner suburbs. Smoky City tells the story of how Newcastle became the polluted place it was for many years. The book follows the city''s history describing how industry, transport, manufacturing, housing and other developments slowly polluted the air, and how that, in turn, impacted people''s day-to-day lives - everything from having to bring washing in several times a day to serious health issues, such as eye irritations and respiratory problems.We meet the Novocastrians who led Australia in their campaigns to clean up the city, and how their activism eventually led to dramatically cleaner air for Newcastle. Despite improvements from the city''s worst levels of air pollution during the mid 20th century, the battle for clean air continues. Today, residents close to the coal industry''s infrastructure live with the constant presence of fine black dust. This book will interest long-term and new residents of Newcastle and the Hunter, and anyone concerned with Australia''s history and environment.

Kristina, a young SS guard, is swept along by life-changing orders from her superiors, and the endless, worsening horrors of the war as Germany is torn apart by its enemies.

Jean Sharp grew up in working class Mayfield, Newcastle, NSW, in the shadow of the BHP steelworks. Her life spanned the steelworks’ very beginnings to nearly its closure in 1999.Jean recalls in remarkable detail the big and small events of 20th century life: school during World War I, the growth of Mayfield and Newcastle, domestic and social life, work as a midwife in the slums of Sydney, life in the country towns of Warialda and Moree, World War II, and a rocky marriage bringing up four children.But Jean’s earliest years in far north-western NSW were for many years a mystery to her. When the silence surrounding that time was finally broken, Jean was devastated. Mayfield Girl is Jean’s brave and honest account of coming to terms with her troubled childhood.