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Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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
My Brilliant Career: Text Classics by Miles Franklin
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn - a real yarn. Oh!" Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tal ...Show more
Myself When Young: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
It has never been my way to say much about my private life. Rightly or wrongly, I believed this only concerned myself. And I trusted to my husband to supply, on my death, any further information that might be asked for. Now that he is gone, however, there is no one to take his place, and so I propose to ...Show more
Mystery Spinner: Text Classics by Russell Jackson, Gideon Haigh
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties, 'tall, shy, shambling' Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban Melbourne, 'bowled like no man before' and became a national sensation, then faded from view almost as swiftly. He died in obscurity, in tragic circumstances. In the enthralling Mystery Spinner, ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
Reaching Tin River: Text Classics by Jennifer Down, Thea Astley
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Beautifully written." --Publishers Weekly "Intelligent, fresh, and new." --Kirkus First published in 1990. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. Young Australian Belle, the daughter of an American musician, looks back on the people and forces that shaped her life. Researching in the archiv ...Show more
Rose Boys - Text Classics by Peter Rose
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years after just another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands of others who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want to examine my brother's life and reanimate him... ...Show more
Selected Poems – Lesbia Harford by Gerald Murnane, Lesbia Harford
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Category: Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A collection of poems by the Australian poet Lesbia Harford, selected and introduced by Gerald Murnane.I love you moreThan God loves the world.Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poems-about social justice, revolution, free love, feminism and ...Show more
Selected Stories: Text Classics by Amy Witting
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
Amy Witting was a master of the short story, the genre in which she felt 'most at home'. Her subjects-childhood and school, marriage and loneliness, the cruelty of men and women-are rendered in a crisp, understated style, at once compassionate and unsentimental. This new selection of twenty pieces from ...Show more
Shooting Star: Text Classics by Peter Temple; Adrian McKinty (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family and hard lessons have been learned. But are the two events connected? And is greed the motivation? Rev ...Show more
Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - Text Classics by Dennis C. J.
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Category: Literature | Series: Text Classics
Introduced by Jack Thompson The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year. By the mid-1970s nearly three hundred thousand copies had been sold internationally. One of the most famous ...Show more
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
A classic of the Australian outback, Such Is Life is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue. As Tom drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and northern Victoria, he gets entangled in the fate of others like Rory O'Halloran, the two Alfs (Nosey and Warrigal) a ...Show more