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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary "My Brilliant Career" when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to "Jane Eyre." But the ...Show more
Gumnut Babies Treasury (May Gibbs) 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
The Power of One (Popular Penguin) by Bryce Courtenay
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Classics | Series: African Collection
First with your head and then with your heart' is advice Peekay, a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world, will carry throughout his life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa. And in a f ...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 ...Show more
A Tiny Story of Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Classics
Introduce your children to the loveable Australian icon, Blinky Bill/p> p>Re-worked for a young audience, follow Blinky and his friends, Splodge the Kangaroo and Wally the Wombat, on their nighttime fishing adventure in Farmer Brown's boat./p>
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
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
