WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AUSTRALIAN? When expatriate novelist Nikki Gemmell had her three children in London, she chose to give them Aussie citizenship over British. This Is Why Why You Are Australian is a treatise about what it means to be Australian. Honest, moving, provocative, uplifting - an exile's story, a mother's ...
Coco Banjo to the rescue! Coco Banjo loves her life. She sleeps in a tiger onesie, wears her mum's diamonds just because she can, and has dolphins and penguins for friends. Today Coco's planning a Yay Day of fun on her secret island home in the middle of Sydney Harbour. But ...
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Nikki Gemmell is the best-selling author of thirteen novels and four works of non-fiction. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She was born in Wollongong, New South Wales and lived in London for many years, but has now returned to Australia. Her distinctive writing has gained her critical acclaim in France, where she's been described as a "female Jack Kerouac". The French literary magazine Lire has included her in a list of what it called the fifty most important writers in the world – those it believes will have a significant influence on the literature of the 21st century.
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