A Simpler Time
A Memoir of Laughter, Loss and Billycarts
$32.73
- Paperback
422 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
An affectionate and hilarious tribute to the childhood of another era, from one of Australia’s favourite authors.
A memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts.
Peter FitzSimons’s account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and values clear; when people stood by each other in adversity. Above …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780732293086 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0732293081 |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 422 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 479g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. He is the author of over twenty-seven books - including biographies of Charles Kingsford Smith, Nancy Wake, Kim Beazley, Nene King, Nick Farr-Jones, Steve Waugh and John Eales - and is one of Australia’s biggest selling non-fiction authors of the last fifteen years.
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