Becoming Australia series: books by David Gormley-O'Brien

Spanning the Bubonic Plague in Sydney, Federation, the Depression, the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Cowra Breakout, Italian prisoners of war on rural farms, nurses in Japanese internment, the British Commonwealth occupation of Japan, and the long road to peace, the Becoming Australia series captures the humour, hardship, and humanity of ordinary Australians living through extraordinary times.

For readers who value meticulously researched historical fiction, An Attractive Naivety and Ashes and Sakura together form a vivid, unflinching, and ultimately hopeful account of Australia’s coming of age in the twentieth century.