The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead; Jonathan Franzen (Introduction by)

$32.99 AUD

Category: Australian Classics | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.

Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of the relations bet ween parents and children, husbands and wives, The Man Who Loved Children is acknowledged as a contemporary classic. ...Show more

A Dutiful Daughter by Thomas Keneally; Geordie Williamson (Introduction by)

$12.95 AUD

Category: Australian Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.

It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals.Barbara Glover?s parents metamorphosed when she hit puberty, becoming bovine from the waist down. Fearful of her transformative powers, she tends diligently to them, keeping them like animals on the family?s remote farm and-along with her brother, Damian, who harbours incestuous longings for her-protecting their terrible secret from the world. First published in 1971, Thomas Keneally?s A Dutiful Daughteris strange and disturbing, and utterly unlike any other Australian novel. ...Show more

A Lifetime on Clouds: Text Classics by Gerald Murnane

$12.95 AUD

Category: Australian Classics | Series: Text Classics

Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s - the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever. Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart a nd fathering 11 children by her. He even dreams a history of the world as a chronicle of sexual frustration. A Lifetime on Clouds is funny, honest and sweetly told: a less ribald, Catholic Australian Portnoy's Complaint (Random House, 1969). ...Show more

Being Alone with Oneself by Charmian Clift

$21.99 AUD

Category: Australian Classics

Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

$24.99 AUD

Category: Australian Classics | Reading Level: very good

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united and - until God seems to turn his back on their boy Fish - religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. Chance, hardship and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try as they can to make their lives.'This is that rare book, a novel of both heart and intellect. It pulses with a sense of wonder and shines with the clear light of truth.? Robert Drewe'One of the great masterpieces of world fiction.? Philip Hensher'If you have not read Cloudstreet, your life is diminished . . . if you have not met these characters, this generous community, these tragedies, the humour. It is so wonderful.? Mem Fox'Cloudstreetis a comic, poignant and intelligent tour de force.? Jim Crace'A groundbreaking Australian narrative with an irresistible combination of the domestic and the mythic.? Thomas Keneally'Reading Cloudstreetfor the first time was like a summer dream from which I wished never to wake.? Gillian Mears'Cloudstreetis the sole epic of contemporary Australian literature- in it, Winton paints on the same canvas as Xavier Herbert and Patrick White.? Geordie Williamson'A writer of tremendous zest, warmth and humour.? Graham Swift'Reading Cloudstreetis like catching a wave.? Kate Jennings'Eccentric heights and unrepeatable genius.? Malcolm Knox ...Show more

Cosmo Cosmolino - Text Classics by Helen Garner; Ramona Koval (Introduction by)

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Category: Australian 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 eles, an unexpected ascension of an angel, and a sudden shower of jonquils. Introduction by Ramona Koval. Helen Garnerwas born in 1942 in Geelong, and was educated there and at Melbourne University. Her first novel, Monkey Grip, came out in 1977, won the 1978 National Book Council Award, and was adapted for film in 1981. Since then she has published novels, short stories, essays, and feature journalism. In 2006 Helen Garner received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature. Ramona Kovalis a writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is the editor of Best Australian Essaysand for many years was the presenter of ABC Radio National's The Book Show. Her most recent book was Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers, a collection of her international literary interviews. textclassics.com.au 'No one writes these reports from the suburban front-line with quite the passion, the abrupt insights and kitchen table candour of Helen Garner.' Robert Dessaix ...Show more

Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole

$14.99 AUD

Category: Australian Classics | 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 he toughest country in Australia and later on as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern territory before the war. First published in 1988 and having sold over 100 000 copies, Hell West and Crooked is perfect for anyone who enjoys a classic outback yarn. 'A real-life story of the pioneering days of the top End that out-adventures anything fiction writers could hope to produce.' - tHE WESt AUStRALIAN 'tom Cole is a living legend, a real-life Crocodile Dundee. His stories paint a vivid picture of wild and exciting times in the Australian outback.' - MELBOURNE SUNDAY EXPRESS 'A story of the outback and cattlemen and women, stripped of glamour, that will become an Australian classic to rub covers with authors like Ion Idriess.' - GOLD COASt BULLEtIN ...Show more

Henry Lawson Selected Stories by Henry Lawson

$14.99 AUD

Category: Australian Classics | Series: A&R Classics Ser.

An essential collection of Henry Lawson's best-loved stories. Rogues, larrikins and the lost people - these timeless stories range from inspired, laconic comedies to pathos and tragedy. this selection showcases Lawson's range as a fiction writer and highlights his profound influence on how Australians see themselves. Here are delightful tales, thrilling tales, tales of love, of strife and of adventure, tales full of humour - stories of every mood, all alive with the magic of Lawson's genius, a genius which ranks with that of the world's greatest short-story writers. Includes 'the Drover's Wife', 'the Union Buries Its Dead' and 'the Loaded Dog'. 'Lawson's genius remains as vivid and human as when he first boiled his literary billy' - the Bulletin 'A book of honest, direct, sympathetic, humorous writing about Australia from within is worth a library of travellers' tales ... the result is a real book - a book in a hundred. His language is terse, supple, and richly idiomatic. He can tell a yarn with the best.' - the Academy on While the Billy Boils   ...Show more

Honour and Other People's Children - Omnibus by Helen Garner; Michael Sala (Introduction by)

$12.95 AUD

Category: Australian 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 en is hurt. And Flo can't understand why they all can't live together. In Other People's Children, Ruth and Scotty live in a big share house that's breaking up. Scotty is trying to hold on, remembering the early days of stories, laughter and singing-and when the kids were everyone's kids. But now the bitterness has crept in and their friendship is broken. Ruth is ready to move on-and she'll take her kids with her. ...Show more

Honours Mimic by Charmian Clift

$19.99 AUD

Category: Australian Classics

Kathy, a young Australian woman, is convalescing on a Greek island after a car accident. She is staying with her sister-in-law Millie, and Millie's husband Demetrius, a rich sponge merchant. Life is pleasant, if somewhat uneventful, until she meets Fotis.

Images in Aspic by Charmian Clift

$17.99 AUD

Category: Australian Classics

Shooting Star: Text Classics by Peter Temple; Adrian McKinty (Introduction by)

$12.95 AUD

Category: Australian Classics | 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 ich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family and hard lessons have been learned.But are the two events connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief.And his every step into the darkness may end a girl?s life.First published two decades ago, this standalone crime novel is Peter Temple at his brilliant best. ...Show more