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Australia in Arms: The Eyewitness Story of Gallipoli: Text Classics by Phillip Schuler
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Category: Military | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Published soon after the evacuation from Gallipoli, Australia in Arms is a vital early account of the Dardanelles campaign. The young journalist Philip Schuler, later killed in battle, witnessed 'the whole of the August offensive fromatrenches at Lone Pine'. He saw the valour of the Anzacs, and recognis ...Show more
Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics by Ruth Park
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This first volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression.She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journalism and began a rel ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics by Ruth Park
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to continue her work as a journalist, newly married to D'Arcy Niland. Determined to earn their living as writers, they submitted story outlines to radio stations, idea for articles to newspapers and accepted whatever freelance jobs came their way. The Har ...Show more
Iron Rose - Text Classics by Peter Temple; Les Carlyon (Introduction by)
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Introduced by Les CarlyonI looked up. The rope was tied to a rolled steel joist about two metres above the truck cab. Ned had climbed up on to the cab roof, tied the rope to the joist, slid it along. Tied a slipknot around his neck. And stepped off the cab roof.Peter Temple is one of the world's great c ...Show more
Mystery Spinner: Text Classics by Russell Jackson, Gideon Haigh
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties, 'tall, shy, shambling' Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban Melbourne, 'bowled like no man before' and became a national sensation, then faded from view almost as swiftly. He died in obscurity, in tragic circumstances. In the enthralling Mystery Spinner, ...Show more
Shooting Star: Text Classics by Peter Temple; Adrian McKinty (Introduction by)
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich 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? Rev ...Show more
The Tournament: Text Classics by John Clarke
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 of the world's most creative players - everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: Text Classics | 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
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
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Category: Text Classics | 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
Time without Clocks: Text Classics by Joan Lindsay
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Time Without Clocks is a 1962 autobiographical novel by Joan Lindsay that recounts Lindsay's early years married to prolific Australian artist Daryl Lindsay.
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
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Category: Text Classics | 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.
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