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

Tranby Aboriginal Co-Operative

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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