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Migrants by Sam Letourneau

In 1975, my family emigrated from England to Australia. I escaped from a cold, dank, inner-city London to the bright sunshine of Perth.

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Out of the Picture by Charles Hara

May 3rd, 1971. We're having a party. I’m six years old, and my parents still speak to one another.

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Houseproud by Ruth Badley

Mum’s strategy for keeping her domestic world in order involved a strict but predictable regime of household tasks that could not be altered

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When I was Famous by Neil Ferguson

The overcast sky and the wishy-washy-not-really-raining July weather is still considering its next step.

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The Miner by Milton Altschuler

It was the summer of 1938 in Lansford, Pennsylvania. The town’s only industry was a deep coal mine whose workers were primarily Polish

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The Curious Case Of The Grandmother And The Frozen Mackerel by Lawrence Morgan

By the age of ten I was an accomplished teller of untruths, especially when it came to excuses for not attending school.

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Ninety-One in Dog Years by Wilson Koewing

When I was seven, Mom and I took a drive. There was a peace to life then. Rural South Carolina was a slow place.

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God-fearing by Dorothy Neagle

The heat hums. Grasshoppers click from stem to stem. In a few days, a tractor will cut and bale hay in the distance...

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Girl in the Doorway by Christopher Parent

“I have a dream that one day … little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls

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Father by Liane U’Prichard

Tonight I rewatch a video my son posted some time ago, of him teaching his five year old to weave on a pretty complicated loom. The patient

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Methylation by Rod Madocks

My Dad gave me a photo of himself to take with me as I set off at the age of seven to my tough Rhodesian boarding school.

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The Name Puzzle by Linda Petrucelli

Mother liked to pretend that my name was a family decision. I was the third child born to Donato and Carmella Petruccelli of Davenport, Iowa

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Beginnings by Heather Gatley

The writer and her early affinity to words, the duality of being Welsh and English, the seeds of her nomadic existence...

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For The Love Of Dogs by Samuel Dodson

Our house was forever alive with animal instinct. We grew up surrounded by a veritable menagerie, some more memorable than others...

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The Fox and the Scars by Amy Wall

As soon as I turned eighteen, I walked myself down to the nearest tattoo parlour and had a small drawing of a fox printed just below my...

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Marigolds by Heather Gatley

I went to school in the quaint time at the end of the 1960s, before political correctness and niceties about equality...

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Disaster Girl by Auriel Roe

Beleagured by a myriad of food allergies and epic cookery failures in Home Economics, the author finally finds redemption in a sponge.

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