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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.
Honour & Other People's Children: Text Classics by Helen Garner
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Two novellas, delving into our connections with those we love, and the pain of breaking those connections. Introduced by Michael Sala.In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, and share the parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathle ...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
Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop:Text Classics by Amy Witting
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Category: CLA | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Isobel Callaghan is struggling to make a career as a writer in Sydney. She is isolated, poor and hungry, and fears she's going mad. Leaving her room in a boarding house in search of food, she has a breakdown on the way to the corner shop. Waking in hospital, Isobel learns that she will be confined to a ...Show more
Kangaroo - Text Classics by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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
Lilian's Story: Text Classic by Kate Grenville
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I was still not permitted to decline those tennis parties. 'You must not close off your options,' Father said, and tweaked at one of the unflattering frills on my dress. In her much-loved debut novel, Kate Grenville took inspiration from the legendary Sydney eccentric Bea Miles to fashion the fictional ...Show more
Madame Midas: Text Classics by Fergus Hume
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Category: CLA | Series: Text Classics Ser.
'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
Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor
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Category: CLA | 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
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
Reaching Tin River: Text Classics by Jennifer Down, Thea Astley
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Category: Classics | 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