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I Saw a Strange Land by Arthur Groom
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While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by its limitless distances and unbelievable colour. Hermannsburg, the home of artist Albert Namatjira and of other well-known painters, became Groom's headquarters, and from there he made ...Show more
I for Isobel Text Classics by Amy Witting; Charlotte Wood (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collectio ...Show more
Iron Rose - Text Classics by Peter Temple; Les Carlyon (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Introduced by Les CarlyonI looked up. The rope was tied to a rolled steel joist about two metres above the truck cab. Ned had climbed up on to the cab roof, tied the rope to the joist, slid it along. Tied a slipknot around his neck. And stepped off the cab roof.Peter Temple is one of the world's great c ...Show more
Jonah by Stone Louis
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One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with the light from a row of shops; the others, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn like moths by the glare, crowded and jostled under the lights. It was Saturday night, and Waterloo, by immemorial habit, had flung itse ...Show more
Julia Paradise by Jones Rod
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He would relive for a long time everything she said to him in the room at the mission. He would recall the way her voice had grown thicker and thicker, and how her head had begun to hang to one side from the exhaustion of her telling, and how he made himself face the photograph of the dead child...Shang ...Show more
Kangaroo - Text Classics by D. H. Lawrence
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After the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. There Somers falls into the company of charismatic fascist 'Kangaroo'. The young writer struggles with his past and his personal ideology as he finds himself in a deadly tug-of-war betwe ...Show more
Life And Adventures 1776-1801 - Text Classics by Nicol John And Flannery Tim
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"At length, almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd of June 1790, just one year all but one day from our leaving the river. We landed all our convicts safe." First published in 1822, this is the extraordinary story of John Nicol, a sailor who circled the globe twice, fought Napoleon's navy, ...Show more
Lillipilly Hill: Text Classics by Eleanor Spence
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Lillipilly Hill is the story of Harriet Wilmot and her family, who have come to live in an inherited house in the New South Wales town of Barley Creek at the end of the nineteenth century. Harriet is in awe of Australia, despite the heat and unconventional schooling, and much prefers it to dreary old Lo ...Show more
Long Green Shore: Text Classics by John Hepworth
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"Everyone was very casual about it - carefully laconic. For the old soldiers it was another move - there had been plenty like this before - they knew what was coming. But the new men could sense the breath of the unknown and mysterious enemy - the shadows of the long green shore - and violence and death ...Show more
Madame Midas: Text Classics by Fergus Hume
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'She had turned everything she touched into gold, and though it brought her no happiness, yet it was the cause of happiness to others.'Charming, intelligent and forthright, the remarkable Madame Midasmakes her fortune on the goldfields of Ballarat - and becomes the target of the villainous ex-convict Ga ...Show more
Maurice Guest - Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
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Henry Handel Richardson's debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of turn-of-the-century Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world - among them Maurice Guest, a young Englishman, who falls helplessly in love with an Australian woman, Louise ...Show more
Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor
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Martha could have said no when Mr Booker tried to kiss her. But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a dull town, her father is mad, her home is stifling. Of course she would kiss the charming Englishman who brightened her world with whiskey and cigarettes, adventure and sex-whatever the consequences. Me and ...Show more