Illustration from The Little Refugee by Anh Do with Suzanne Do; illustrated by Bruce Whatley, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn5350411

Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (detail), 1901, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1666224

Leather and silk sandals worn to celebrate liturgical functions within the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat, Ballarat Diocesan Historical Commission collection.

Tin of Boer War chocolates from the Papers of Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, 1807-1950, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2338318065

Manuscript map of Guangdong: [Chaozhou fu: Chenghai - Chaoyang - Huilai - Nanao Dao fang yu tu], (1850), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230559800

Members of the Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club in training with a surf reel, 1939. Image courtesy of the BSBLSC.

Japanese fairy tale series (detail), nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4932419

Don't look up: the National Library's main reading room; and The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

Tranby Aboriginal Co-Operative

Special presentation copy of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, London: Chatto & Windus, 2014. Image: National Library of Australia