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At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway. His account, first published as ""Into the Smother"", received international acclaim for its realistic depiction of POWs living, working and dying in a Japanese camp deep in the Thai jungle.

The brilliant painter, Arthur Boyd (1920-99) was a member of Australia's most famous artistic dynasty. This excerpt reveals Arthur Boyd as a man who lived in a private world of painting, family, friends and familiar surroundings, yet developed into an iconic Australian artist.