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The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Classics
First published over 100 years ago in 1918, these delightful tales of iconic Australian folklore have never been out of print. Combined together in one hardback bind-up for the first time, this edition includes The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie, Little Ragged Blossom, Little Obelia, ...Show more
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Classics
This title features an introduction by Eric Lomax. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that l ...Show more
And the Ass Saw the Angel (Popular Penguin) by Nick Cave
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Cave's debut novel takes on the Southern Gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute i ...Show more
Being Alone With Oneself: Essays 1968-1969 (Edited and introduced by Nadia Wheatley) by Charmian Clift
$21.99 AUD
Category: Australian Classics
The last of the author's unanthologised writing from her weekly column in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' and the 'Melbourne Herald' of the 1960s. Covers various aspects of the changing face of Australia. By the author of 'Mermaid Singing', 'Peel Me a Lotus', 'Honour's Mimic', 'Images in Aspic' and 'The Wor ...Show more
Bring Larks And Heroes - Text Classics by Keneally Thomas & Geordie Williamson
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Classics | Series: Text Classics
"At the world's end, it is Sunday afternoon in February. Through the edge of the forest a soldier moves without any idea he's caught in a mesh of sunlight and shade. Corporal Halloran's this fellow's name. He's a lean boy taking long strides through the Sabbath heat." A South Pacific penal colony in the ...Show more
Bush Studies - Text Classics by Barbara Baynton
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Classics | Series: Text Classics
Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism - for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and ...Show more
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 ...Show more
For The Term Of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke; Rohan Wilson (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian 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.
Gumnut Babies Treasury (May Gibbs) (HB) by May Gibbs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Classics
Read the original May Gibbs stories that give us a peek behind the gum leaf at what makes our favourite Bush Babies their cheeky self. This brand new bind-up edition is beautifully embellished with May Gibbs' original illustrations and words from over 100 years ago. Containing stories from Gumnut Babies ...Show more
Headhunters of the Coral Sea by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Preface by, Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Classics
The story of the capture of the two Lamars (reincarnated natives), as the white boys were called, is one that has been handed down in legend among the Torres Strait islanders. After Idriess, years later, learned in civilised society the other part of the story - that the two boys, Jack Ireland and Will ...Show more
Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole
$19.99 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 ...Show more
Here's Lower by Lennie Lower; Patrick Cook (Illustrator); Tom Thompson ((various roles))
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Classics
Lennie Lower, Australia's answer to James Thurber and S.J. Perelman, wrote humorous columns for Smith's Weekly and The Women's Weekly and by 1930 was seen as our greatest humorist with his novel Here's Luck. Here's Lower is a selection of the whimsical Lower from his newspaper columns of the 1930s. Thes ...Show more
