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Rachael Johns in Conversation at Lane Cove Library

Lane Cove Library Library Walk, Lane Cove, NSW, Australia

Join us for morning tea while Rachael Johns discusses her latest novel The Work Wives. For work wives, Debra and Quinn it's a case of opposites attract. They are each other's lifelines as they navigate office politics and jobs that pay the bills but don't inspire them. However, life becomes complicated by the arrival of […]

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Military History Talk – The defence of Sydney during World War II

Lane Cove Library Library Walk, Lane Cove, NSW, Australia

Military History Talk – The defence of Sydney during World War IIOn the night of the 31 May 1942 World War II arrived on Sydney doorsteps with a bang! Suddenly World War II became real and not something that was happening elsewhere. Home defences went through a major overhaul with gun emplacements along the harbour […]

Military History Talk – Cowra Breakout – Origins and Aftermath

Lane Cove Library Library Walk, Lane Cove, NSW, Australia

Military History Talk – Cowra Breakout – Origins and AftermathBy August 1944 there were over 2,000 Japanese prisoners of war being held in Australia, a little over 1,100 of these were held in a prisoner of war camp near Cowra. On 5 August 1944 at about 2:00am several hundred Japanese prisoners set fire to their […]

Meet Toby Roberts – Two Mums and a Dad

Lane Cove Library Library Walk, Lane Cove, NSW, Australia

Meet Toby Roberts – Two Mums and a DadJoin local author Toby Roberts as he discusses his memoir Two Mums and a Dad. This is an Australian story about growing up in Sydney's leafy northern suburbs, a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was totally bohemian, embracing all the faces […]

Military History talk – Battle of Crete

Lane Cove Library Library Walk, Lane Cove, NSW, Australia

Military History Talk – Battle of CreteFollowing the occupation of Greece by the Germans in April 1941, 26,000 weary Allied soldiers, including large numbers of ANZAC troops, were evacuated to Crete. In May Nazi Germany began an airborne invasion of the island, killing 1,750 allied troops, wounding 1,730 and 12,250 allied troops were marched into […]

Military talk – Seaman Teddy Sheean VC

Lane Cove Library Library Walk, Lane Cove, NSW, Australia

Military talk – Seaman Teddy Sheean VCIn August 2020 Seaman Teddy Sheean was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions in 1942 during the sinking of HMAS Armidale. While under fire, he returned to his anti-aircraft gun, foregoing a place in a life raft. He continued firing to protect his fellow seamen in the […]