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Banjo Paterson Complete Poems by Banjo Paterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics
When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'The Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. Today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favou ...Show more
Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian 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: Australian 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Henry Lawson Poems by Henry Lawson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
First published in 1979, this edition includes 30 new selections, including highly significant poems addressed to his lost love, Hannah Thorburn, and some for young children.
Henry Lawson Selected Stories by Henry Lawson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | 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 ...Show more
Here's Luck by Lennie Lower
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
Still considered one of Australia's funniest books ever, Here's Luck is Lennie Lower's most inspired lunacy. Here's Luck, Lennie Lower's wild and uproarious masterpiece, is set in Sydney during the early depression years and follows the hilarious exploits of its hero and narrator, Jack Gudgeon. Deserted ...Show more
My Love Must Wait by Ernestine Hill
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Talks about the life and love of Matthew Flinders and the woman he had to leave behind. Flinders is in search of high adventure, abandoning his wife for uncharted seas, exotic tropic islands, and the loneliness and living hell of six years captivity on a French island. This is a story about romance and ...Show more
No Barrier by Eleanor Dark
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Book three of The Timeless Land trilogy, Eleanor Dark's best known work, continues the story of colonial Sydney up to the crossing of the Blue Mountains. The story of the Mannion family continues after the Bligh rebellion. As the young Mannions grow to maturity, so too the settlement at Sydney Cove deve ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian 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
Storm Of Time by Eleanor Dark
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Book two of The Timeless Land trilogy, The Storm of Time continues Eleanor Dark's sweeping saga of colonial Sydney under governors Hunter, King and Bligh. Sydney Cove, 1799, and three years since Governor Phillip departed. Against a background of continuing convict settlement, hunger, rebellion and the ...Show more
The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
'An exquisitely crafted journey of Australian suburban life ...fresh and irresistible' - Miles Franklin Literary Award judges As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, Vic, Rita and their son, Michael, are off to a party. George Bedser has invited the whole neighbourhood ...Show more