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Rose Boys - Text Classics by Peter Rose
$12.95 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history | 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: classics | 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 Katherine Mansfield
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics
Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily influenced by Anton Chekhov, a master of the form. This new selection, with an introduction by the novelist ...Show more
Selected Stories: Text Classics by Amy Witting
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Category: fiction a-z | 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: crime & thriller | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Pat Carson?s old eyes were on me, looking for something.'Man is born unto trouble,? he said.I said, 'As the sparks fly upwards.?Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. 'Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven?t been a bloody priest too, have you??Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted.The r ...Show more
Stiff: Text Classics by Shane Maloney
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics
The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding a body in number 3 chiller. An accident, of course, but just the excuse a devious political operator might grab to stir up trouble with the unions. Enter Murray Whelan, m ...Show more
Swords and Crowns and Rings: Text Classics by Ruth Park
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Jackie Hanna, born with dwarfism, and Cushie Moy, the girl next door, share an innocent love--a love that will be censured, but will persevere. This is the story of the triumph of a special kind of courage.Ruth Park's Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the Great Depression.
Terra Australis: Text Classics by Matthew Flinders
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and com ...Show more
The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and ...Show more
The Commandant: Text Classics by Jessica Anderson
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics
"He jumped down to the wharf and walked alone out of the torchlight to stand behind Letty. Frances looked from his face to her sister's, and once again felt the weakening flush of fear. She was too much at the mercy of her company, and was about to discover which of her unpredictable selves would advanc ...Show more
The Dig Tree (Text Classics) by Sarah Murgatroyd
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics
Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. †̃Without some change,â€TM he wrote, †̃I see little chance for any of us.â€TM In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert Oâ€TMHara Burke led a ...Show more
The Essence of the Thing: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize In The Essence of the Thing, Madeleine St John takes us deep into the territory of the human heart. Nicola should never have stepped out to buy that pack of cigarettes, because the man she discovers in her living room on her return is not the Jonathan she has been shar ...Show more