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Ash Road: Text Classics by Ivan Southall
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste of independence, camping, just the three of them. When they accidentally light a bushfire no one would have guessed how far it would go. All along Ash Road fathers go off to fight the fires and mothers he ...Show more
Aunts Up the Cross: Text Classics by Robin Dalton
$12.95 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Text Classics
50 years after its original publication, Aunts Up The Cross remains a perennial classic of Australian childhood. Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney's bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revol ...Show more
Australia in Arms: The Eyewitness Story of Gallipoli: Text Classics by Phillip Schuler
$12.95 AUD
Category: War/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
The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd & Christos Tsiolkas
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Text Classics
Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In it Boyd railed against Australia's promotion of ornament, decorative approach to design and slavish imitatio ...Show more
Between Sky Sea: Text Classics by Herz Bergner
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"A group of Jewish refugees are thrown together on board a dilapidated freighter charting a course for Australia. Fleeing terrible scenes of destruction in Europe, they are bound by a deep sense of loss and the uncertainty of their fate. As the ship lists, inner conflicts burst to the surface and romanc ...Show more
Blue Skies: Text Classics by Helen Hodgman
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In Helen Hodgman's dazzlingly written debut a young woman is trapped in a small city on an island at the end of the world - by motherhood and an absent husband, by busybody in-laws and neighbours, by a drab society yet to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. A darkly funny tale of a crack-up in ...Show more
Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics by Tom Keneally
$12.95 AUD
Category: 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: 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
Cafe Scheherazade: Text Classics by Arnold Zable
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade. Thus begins Arnold Zable's haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that ...Show more
Came Back to Show You I Could Fly: Text Classics by Robin Klein
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Seymour is bored and lonely, and running from a gang of kids when he opens a back-lane gate. And there is Angie. She is older than Seymour, confident, cool and alluring, and she treats him with the affection of an older sister. Seymour is captivated-through Angie he is awakened to the fun and adventure ...Show more
Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics by Sumner Locke Elliot
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Based on the childhood of Sumner Locke Elliot, this novel is set in the Great Depression. PB, an orphan, lives a secure working-class life in Sydney. That's all about to change, however, when his Aunt Vanessa arrives from London and scoops him up to raise him as her own child."
Carry Me Down Text Classic by M. J. Hyland
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland. The Guinness Book of Records is his favourite book and he wants to visit Niagara Falls with his mother. But, more than anything, he is determined to become a world-famous lie detector, almost at any cost. Carry Me Down is written ...Show more