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Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
In the sequel to his semi-autobiographical novel My Brother Jack, George Johnston concludes his Meredith trilogy in this brilliantly evocative, single volume of books two and three: Clean Straw for Nothing (winner of the Miles Franklin Award) and A Cartload of Clay. Set against the backdrop of a Greek ...Show more
Coonardoo by Katherine Prichard
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
A tough, uncompromising novel about the difficult love between a white man and a black woman. Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo a ...Show more
Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in t ...Show more
Kenneth Slessor Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor
14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
One of Australia's finest poets, Kenneth Slessor would be outstanding in any company. His brilliance of technique gives an impression of unconscious mastery in poems that are always arresting in conception and illuminating in image. Slessor was born in 1901 in Orange, New South Wales. He was educated in ...Show more
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAESTRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
Sentimental Bloke by C. J. Dennis
17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
"For the first time in one volume here are the complete verse stories of the Sentimental Bloke, Doreen, Ginger Mick, Digger Smith and Rose. Dennis's larrikins, lasses, soldiers and settlers won the hearts of Australians when they first appeared early last century. Such is the humanity to be found in the ...Show more
The Cattle King by Ion L Idriess
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. This book is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King.
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The extraordinary Booker Prize shortlisted story of a black man's revenge against an unjust and intolerant society. Thomas Keneally was born in Sydney Australia in 1935. He studied to be a Catholic priest but abandoned his vocation to take up teaching and writing. He is the author of numerous works of f ...Show more
"The Treatment" and "the Cure" by Peter Kocan
25.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
A compelling, perceptive and disturbing account of one man's fight to survive incarceration. After a brief spell in gaol, Len tarbutt, nineteen years old and serving a life sentence, is transferred to the maximum security ward of a mental hospital. In the treatment and its award-winning sequel,the Cure, ...Show more
Wild Cat Falling by Mudrooroo
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Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
This was the first novel by a writer of Aboriginal blood to be published in Australia and in 1965 marked a unique literary event. "Wild Cat Falling" is the story of an Australia Aboriginal youth who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town. He falls into petty crime, goes to gaol and comes out ...Show more
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