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A Change in the Light:Text Classics by Amy Witting
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
When her husband of three decades announces he has a younger lover and wants a divorce, Ella Ferguson realises how protected her life has been-she has 'seen no evil, heard no evil and spoken no evil'. Alone, enraged, she must come to terms with her failed marriage and her relationships with her adult ch ...Show more
A Dutiful Daughter by Thomas Keneally; Geordie Williamson (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals.Barbara Glover?s parents metamorphosed when she hit puberty, becoming bovine from the waist down. Fearful of her transformative powers, she tends diligently to them, keeping them like animals on the family?s remote ...Show more
A Kindness Cup: Text Classics by Thea Astley
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"A writer of astonishing gifts." --Publishers Weekly "Smart, compassionate." --New York Times Text Classics presents four key works from Thea Astley, including two never previously released in the United States. Two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, the former residents of a Queens ...Show more
A Pure Clear Light: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project...what could go wrong? A Pure Clear Lightexamines a marriage at the moment it goes hapless ...Show more
A Stairway to Paradise: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara...Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction.Are any of them truly interested in reaching the 'paradise' they cla ...Show more
All in the Blue Unclouded Weather: Text Classics by Robin Klein
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
All in the Blue Unclouded Weather begins the story of the Melling sisters, four girls growing up in an Australian country town in the post war years. Vivienne is the youngest, always the last to wear the hand-me-down clothes-after Grace and Heather and Cathy-and always longing for something new and spec ...Show more
Aunts Up the Cross: Text Classics by Robin Dalton
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
50 years after its original publication, Aunts Up The Cross remains a perennial classic of Australian childhood. Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney's bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revol ...Show more
Australia in Arms: The Eyewitness Story of Gallipoli: Text Classics by Phillip Schuler
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Published soon after the evacuation from Gallipoli, Australia in Arms is a vital early account of the Dardanelles campaign. The young journalist Philip Schuler, later killed in battle, witnessed 'the whole of the August offensive fromatrenches at Lone Pine'. He saw the valour of the Anzacs, and recognis ...Show more
Blue Skies: Text Classics by Helen Hodgman
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In Helen Hodgman's dazzlingly written debut a young woman is trapped in a small city on an island at the end of the world - by motherhood and an absent husband, by busybody in-laws and neighbours, by a drab society yet to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. A darkly funny tale of a crack-up in ...Show more
Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics by Tom Keneally
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"At the world's end, it is Sunday afternoon in February. Through the edge of the forest a soldier moves without any idea he's caught in a mesh of sunlight and shade. Corporal Halloran's this fellow's name. He's a lean boy taking long strides through the Sabbath heat." A South Pacific penal colony in the ...Show more
Cafe Scheherazade: Text Classics by Arnold Zable
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade. Thus begins Arnold Zable's haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that ...Show more
Came Back to Show You I Could Fly: Text Classics by Robin Klein
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
Seymour is bored and lonely, and running from a gang of kids when he opens a back-lane gate. And there is Angie. She is older than Seymour, confident, cool and alluring, and she treats him with the affection of an older sister. Seymour is captivated-through Angie he is awakened to the fun and adventure ...Show more