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Making Melbourne Modern

$17.95
From illegal village to modern metropolis, Melbourne is a city of many layers. Author Jenny Lee observes them with a sharp eye, sampling the city's marvellous and not-so-marvellous moments and reintroducing some of the unconventional characters who have shaped its history. The palm-sized book includes more than 50 historic and contemporary pictures.

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The Chinawoman

$34.95
This detective mystery, the overall winner of the Victorian Community History Awards 2009, follows the police hunt for the murderers of an English prostitute in colonial Melbourne. The horrific crime fanned anti-Chinese hysteria and was enveloped in mystery for months, until political pressure broke the silence and two Chinese suspects were delivered up to the English.

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