Immigrants

19 December 2020 Update: I will continue to add to this list as I read more books and remember more previously read.

The topic for ANZAncestryTime this week is Migration across the seas.

This theme prompted me to reflect on some of the books I had read about immigrants or refugees who travelled to make a new life in Australia, some came by sea and some by air.  I went scurrying back to my reading log on Librarything to jog my memory for those titles.

Following is a list of some of the books I enjoyed.

Almost like home : living in Bradfield Park, Michael Hogan

The Arrival, Shaun Tan (Picture book - suggested by Carmel Galvin).

Benedictine pioneers in Australia, Henry Norbert Birt

The Boat by Nam Le  (Suggested by Carmel Galvin)

Chinese whispers : in search of ivy : a gold rush story told by generations of an Australian-Chinese family, Alison Choy Flannigan

Convict women, Kay Daniels

Cop This Lot, Nino Culotta

Daddy Cool: Finding My Father, the Singer Who Swapped Hollywood Fame for Home in Australia, Darleen Bungey

Esther : the extraordinary true story of the First Fleet girl who became first lady of the colony by Jessica North

Fair Game, Elizabeth Rushen

Farewell my children : Irish emigration to Australia 1848-1870,  Richard Reid

The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts, Sian Rees

Free Passage, Perry McIntyre

Freedom's land, Anna Jacobs

From Distress to Deliverance : the life and times of william gow, convict, schoolmaster and farmer, Stephen Gow

The Happiest Refugee, Anh Do

The glory garage : growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia, Nadia Jamal

The happiest man on Earth, Eddie Jaku

Hell ship, Michael Veitch  (Suggested by Jennifer Jones)

I Kept on Dancing: A Life's Journey from Nazi Germany to the Lucky Country, Olga Geddes

Inheritance of secrets, Sonya Bates

Into the Suburbs : A Migrant's Story, Christopher Raja

The Italian girl, Rebecca Huntley

Joyful strains : making Australia home, Kent MacCarter

A long way home, Saroo Brierley 

A long way to Tipperary, Susan Gough (Children's Fiction)

Mao's last dancer, Li Cunxin

Michi's memories : the story of a Japanese war bride , Keiko Tamura 

One Bright Moon, Andrew Kwong 

Otherland: A Journey with My Daughter by Maria Tumarkin

Pierce Landers and Honorah Flood : Tipperary, Ire. [to] Dungog, NSW, Gwenyth Starr

Pirate boy of Sydney town by Jackie French

Reckoning : a memoir, Magda Szubanski

Reminiscences of a Roving Rabbi by Rudy Brasch

Rising heart Aminata Conteh-Biger

Romulus my father, Raimond Gaita  (Suggested by Carmel Galvin)

Sempre con te : always with you 

Suitcase of dreams, Tanya Blanchard

These Few Lines - A Convict Story : The Lost Lives of Myra and William Sykes by Graham Seal

They're a weird mob, Nino Culotta

Threads: The Untold Story of Fashion House George Gross & Harry Who, Rose Fydler

An unconventional woman, Jean Tahija

Where, oh where, is Wooger Vitnell?, Barbara Eileen Brown

Where the Sea Takes Us: A True Story of Family, Fate and Vietnam, Kim Khanh Huynh

With just one suitcase, Cheryl Koenig (Suggested by Carmel Galvin)

Ziba came on a boat, Liz Lofthouse (Picture Book)