The Women of Little Lon by Barbara Minchinton Batavia shipwreck A collection of stories and

A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu

already over-protective

‘I’m a scientist

the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians

a mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you think you asked for noodles

The Women of Little Lon by Barbara Minchinton Batavia shipwreck A collection of stories andSex workers in nineteenth century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women. While today a city lane is famously named after Madame Brussels, the identities of the other flash madams, the dressed girls who worked for them and the hundreds of women who solicited on the