Country Town

By Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway & Louise Hogan

$19.95 – $29.95

Happy times, sad times, boom times and gloom times!

From the First Peoples’ camp at the river crossing in the 1820s through to Carols by Candlelight at the showground in today’s world, this is a decade by decade wonderfully illustrated story of a small country community.

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About the author

Historian and novelist Isolde Martyn researched nearly every town in Australia for the bicentenary volume Events and Places and enjoyed being the editor of The Reader’s Digest Motoring Guide to Australia. She is also the author of eight historical novels..

About the author

Robyn Ridgeway's ancestry is from the NSW North coast. Her mother was a Thungutti woman, her father a Worimi man. She worked at Tranby Aboriginal College, teaching Aboriginal Studies before moving to TAFE where she teaches Aboriginal Studies at both..

About the illustrator

Louise Hogan is best known for When a Goose Meets a Moose and Apples for Hurricane Street, which was shortlisted for the Australian Children’s Book of the Year Award. Although she graduated from the National Art School with a Diploma..