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  • Chinese in Echuca-Moama: A chronicle 1850's to 1930 by Carol Holdsworth ( Second hand book)

    Chinese in Echuca-Moama: A chronicle 1850’s to 1930 by Carol Holdsworth ( Second hand book)

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  • Flames across the mountains: Personal accounts of the Bogong, Razorback and Pinnabar fires, East Gippsland, January 2003 compiled by Leanne Appleby (Second hand book)

    Flames across the mountains: Personal accounts of the Bogong, Razorback and Pinnabar fires, East Gippsland, January 2003 compiled by Leanne Appleby (Second hand book)

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  • Jubilee of secondary education at Numurkah 1924 - 1974 (Second hand book)

    Jubilee of secondary education at Numurkah 1924 – 1974 (Second hand book)

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  • Golden dreams and Geordie nous by Winty Calder (Second hand book)

    Golden dreams and Geordie nous by Winty Calder (Second hand book)

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Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman by Barbara Minchinton with Philip Bentley

SHORTLISTED – NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2025

A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early Melbourne.  Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego.

Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Caroline arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Left alone when her police-officer husband was sent to work in remote Victoria,

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