We Who Decide - Johnston, Henry
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We Who Decide is a story of deceit, lies, and ambiguity; a fictionalised tale of a woman who became a doyen of post-war Sydney's haute couture. It describes the life of Shoshanna Liebler, an 18-year-old European Jewess who, on the eve of the Anschluss of 1938, flees Austria, for Australia. A renowned high-fashion designer, known affectionately as ZaSu, collaborates with her parents and brother in the family business. For more than a century, the House of Liebler designed and manufactured military and police uniforms for the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. Determined to modernise the group's…mehr

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We Who Decide is a story of deceit, lies, and ambiguity; a fictionalised tale of a woman who became a doyen of post-war Sydney's haute couture. It describes the life of Shoshanna Liebler, an 18-year-old European Jewess who, on the eve of the Anschluss of 1938, flees Austria, for Australia. A renowned high-fashion designer, known affectionately as ZaSu, collaborates with her parents and brother in the family business. For more than a century, the House of Liebler designed and manufactured military and police uniforms for the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. Determined to modernise the group's business, ZaSu develops a portfolio of affordable creations for Europe's leading fashion houses. Entrepreneur Ashton Frost, of the fictional Sydney-based Frost Emporium, is determined to incorporate the Liebler style into his family's retail chain. Frost finances ZaSu's journey to Australia, but her new life begins in a detention wing of the Long Bay prison. Upon release ZaSu decides to obscure her identity, religion, and sexuality if she is to succeed in a conservative country about which she knows nothing. Cut off from her family and a trusted aide-de-camp, ZaSu is desperate to uncover the truth about the fate of her mother, father, and brother.
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Henry Johnston, Australian author, essayist, and poet, was born in the UK in 1951. He is a contributor to both The Australian Independent Media Network and Independent Australia. In his career, Johnston served as an ABC Radio producer, speechwriter, and senior policy adviser. In the Independent Australia 2023 writing competition, his essay "In The Company of Giants", won the Most Compelling Article award. Other pieces of work encompass the short story "An Upturned Sky" (Stringybark Publishing), and an anthology Port Out Starboard Home, which was released as an eBook on Smashwords. He has written two novellas: Best and Fairest and The Last Voyage of Aratus and Other Stories. Set in inner-city Sydney during the 1960s, Best and Fairest chronicles the lives of 13 young men united by their love of Rugby League. In The Last Voyage of Aratus and Other Stories, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is given a modern twist. His current project is a collection of poetry called The Gardens of Stone.