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Tourmaline: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
There is no stretch of land on earth more ancient than this. And so it is blunt and red and barren, littered with the fragments of broken mountains, flat, waterless. Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic diviner Michael ...Show more
Visitants Text Classics by Randolph Stow
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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.
When Blackbirds Sing: Text Classics by Martin Boyd
14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences in the trenches changes him forever; his return home sees him cast off his past and find his own integrity. He has seen the true nature of war-the ...Show more
Whispering in the Wind - Text Classics by Alan Marshall; Shane Maloney
12.95 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | 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
Wish: Text Classics by Peter Goldsworthy
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
'I'm not deaf, but I've always felt more at home in Sign. Both my parents are deaf. Deaf as posts. Deaf as adders, deaf as beetles. And proud as peacocks, Deaf Pride long before there was a word, or a sign, for it. I learnt to speak with my hands from birth; there was no other way of reaching my parents ...Show more
Woman of the Future - Text Classics by David Ireland; Kate Jennings (Introduction by)
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Immense originality, wit, and gritty wisdom. . . . David Ireland has reached the top."--Patrick WhiteAn imaginative tour de force, A Woman of the Future is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt--from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Aus ...Show more