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Cosmo Cosmolino - Text Classics by Helen Garner; Ramona Koval (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
'Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia.'Bulletin Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing of ukel ...Show more
Dancing on Coral: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1987 by Adams Glenda
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics
'She's going now,' said Henry Watter if he said anything at all. Or, 'It's a tricky place, the world. You've got to be sharp to manage it."Leave her be. She'll be back,' said Mrs Watter. 'This is her home. She knows that.' Lark Watter had always planned to run away from her stifling suburban life in 196 ...Show more
Death in Brunswick (Text Classics) by Boyd Oxlade
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Introduced by Shane Maloney Down on his luck and hard up for cash, Carl works in the kitchen of a seedy rock 'n' roll joint in ethnically diverse Brunswick. The bouncers and bosses terrify him, he's desperately in love with a much younger Greek waitress, and to make matters worse his mother has come to ...Show more
Dog Boy: Text Classics by Eva Hornung; Yann Martel (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2010Introduced by Yann MartelAbandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There in the rich smelly darkness, in the rub of hair, claws and teeth, he joins four puppies suckling at their mother's ...Show more
Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads--'full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back'. Drylands is the story of the townsfolk's ...Show more
Fairyland by Locke Elliot Sumner
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
The final book by Sumner Locke Elliott, the award-winning author of Careful, He Might Hear You.
Fear Drive My Feet: Text Classics by Peter Ryan
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Fear Drive My Feet is Peter Ryan's enduring account of his time patrolling isolated regions of New Guinea during World War II. Far from his fellow Australians and with Japanese forces closing in around him, the eighteen-year-old Ryan endures the hardships of the jungle, overcoming loneliness, fatigue an ...Show more
Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics by Ruth Park
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This first volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression.She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journalism and began a rel ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics by Ruth Park
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to continue her work as a journalist, newly married to D'Arcy Niland. Determined to earn their living as writers, they submitted story outlines to radio stations, idea for articles to newspapers and accepted whatever freelance jobs came their way. The Har ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life: Text Classics by Marcus Clarke
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wrongfully convicted, a young aristocrat is sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. There he is forced to endure tremendous suffering, from the cruelty of those in power to the harsh untamed country. Dawes remains determined to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.
Hill's End by Ivan Southall
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Category: Teenage | Series: Text Classics
On a fateful day in Hills End, a timber-milling town in the mountains of Victoria, seven children and their teacher set off to explore caves in the nearby mountains said to contain ancient Aboriginal rock art. While they are deep inside the mountain caves a storm of tremendous violence all but sweeps th ...Show more
Homesickness - Text Classics by Bail Murray
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Category: Literature | Series: Text Classics
"It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but n ...Show more