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The Plains: Text Classics by Gerald Murnane
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This is the story of the families of the plains--obsessed with their land and history, their culture and mythology--and of the man who ventured into their world.First published in 1982, The Plainsis a mesmerising work of startling originality. This handsome new hardback edition is introduced by Ben Ler ...Show more
The Sky in Silver Lace by Robin Klein
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
The Melling family has moved from Wilgawa to the city suburb of Lacey's Bay. There's a new school, a new place to live and new friends to make-this is exciting, but also terrifying, especially when the first potential friend Vivienne meets is large, bold and threatening. The Sky in Silver Lace is the th ...Show more
The Suburbs of Hell: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
'His eyes are on the one eye of the rifle. His mouth splits open his brown beard. He throws up a hand, palm outward, in an unwilled, futile gesture to ward off death.' A killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed i ...Show more
The Tournament: Text Classics by John Clarke
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 of the world's most creative players - everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco ...Show more
The Visit: Text Classics by Amy Witting
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
In The Visit-Amy Witting's debut novel, first published when she was almost sixty-a group of Bangoree residents gather to read plays by Beckett and Brecht. But their literary pursuits, and their lives, take an unexpected turn after it is revealed that the late Roderick Fitzallan set some of his celebrat ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They're a Weird Mobis an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear fo ...Show more
Time without Clocks: Text Classics by Joan Lindsay
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Category: Biography | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Time Without Clocks is a 1962 autobiographical novel by Joan Lindsay that recounts Lindsay's early years married to prolific Australian artist Daryl Lindsay.
Visitants Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
'I want to die. I do not want to be mad...It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come, and attacked the person who lived there.' After an Australian patrol officer commits suicide on a remote New Guinea island in 1959, five witnesses are called to a government inquiry. Each has a disturbing ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Whispering in the Wind - Text Classics by Alan Marshall; Shane Maloney
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Category: Childrens | Series: Text Classics Ser.
First published in 1969, a charming children's classic. Peter lives in a bush hut with Crooked Mick, the greatest horse rider in all the world. One day Peter decides to go out and find a princess and rescue her from a dragon. With his horse Moonlight he sets out on his quest. Along the way he meets an a ...Show more