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Shadowline
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Publication Date: Nov 2022
RRP: $34.99
ISBN: 9781922633620
Format: Paperback
Size: 180mm x 234mm
Category: Coming Soon, Australian History, Biography
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Shadowline

The Dunera Diaries of Uwe Radok

Edited by Jacquie Houlden and Seumas Spark

This item will be released November 1, 2022

In September 1939, Britain declared war on Germany, and the life of Uwe Radok, a young German-born engineer working in Scotland, changed forever. Classified as an ‘enemy alien’, Uwe was deported to Canada on the Arandora Star. When the ship was torpedoed, drowning more than 800, Uwe and his brothers survived – only to be marched onto the infamous Dunera, bound for Australia.

From 1940 to 1943 Uwe kept a series of diaries. Their pages offer a remarkable account of the effects of displacement. The harrowing voyage and the tedium of indefinite detainment are rendered with clarity. Over time, this gives way to an exploration of the contours of love, as Uwe formed a sustaining connection with another male internee.

Edited by Uwe’s daughter Jacquie Houlden and historian Seumas Spark, the diaries offer a fascinating insight into life in wartime internment. In depicting the barriers to homosexual and bisexual love in the 1940s, they reveal a new element to the Dunera story that has gone unexplored. Vivid and poignant, Shadowline is a powerful portrait of a man torn between his feelings and society’s expectations.

Editor royalties from this book will be donated to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, to help protect and support those seeking asylum in Australia today.


Jacquie Houlden

Jacquie Houlden is Uwe Radok’s daughter. An educator and co-founder of an education technology company, she has also written a children’s book, Felix and the Flea Circus, about a flea running away from the circus to find his own dog. During Covid...
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Seumas Spark

Dr Seumas Spark is an Adjunct Fellow in History at Monash University
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