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The Watcher in the Garden by Joan Phipson
$12.95 AUD
Category: Children's Books | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: very good
Trespassing in Mr Lovett's secluded garden was a welcome escape for sixteen-year-old Catherine. A haven away from the parents who didn't understand her moodiness and from her pretty, even-tempered sister, Diana, who she resented. It was a place to be alone. But this all changes when Catherine is confron ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
The Young Desire It: Text Classics by Kenneth Mackenzie
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private pa ...Show more
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They're a Weird Mobis an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear fo ...Show more
To the Islands: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Behind the uneasy trees rose the hills, and beyond them again the country of the lost, huge wilderness between this last haunt of civilization and the unpeopled sea. Exhausted and losing faith, an Anglican minister flees his mission in Australia's northwest for the vast emptiness of the outback. In the ...Show more
Tobruk 1941: Text Classics by Chester Wilmot
$12.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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Tourmaline: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian 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: Australian 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: Australian 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
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian 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
Wish: Text Classics by Peter Goldsworthy
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian 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: Australian 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