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The Glass Canoe: Text Classics by David Ireland
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Text Classics
"On hot days we jumped fully clothed into our bottomless beer glasses and pushed off from shore without a backward look. Heading for the deep, where it was calm and cool." Meat Man is a regular at the Southern Cross pub in Sydney. With his tribe he sits and drinks and watches as life spirals around him. ...Show more
The Home Girls - Text Classics by Olga Masters
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life. Set in the mid-twentieth century, these are tales of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters was, as the Advertiser remarked, 'a natural storyteller'. Between the publication of The Home Girls, in 1982, and her dea ...Show more
The House That Was Eureka: Text Classics by Nadia Wheatley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
It's 1981 and Evie is sixteen. She has left school but can't find work, and her family has just moved into the run-down inner Sydney suburb of Newtown. Noel lives in the adjoining terrace house. He's fifteen, not taking school seriously and fed up with looking after his ancient bed-ridden grandmother. A ...Show more
The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfectionis the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage--two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection ...Show more
The Jerilderie Letter: Text Classics by Ned Kelly
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has no alternative only to put up with the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped s ...Show more
The Last Days of Chez Nous and Two Friends: Text Classics by Helen Garner; Laura Jones (Afterword by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
These screenplays showcase the range of one of Australia's greatest writers.The Last Days of Chez Nous was directed by Gillian Armstrong in 1991, andTwo Friends by Jane Campion in 1986. These funny, sharp observations of relationships and friendships are as intimate and engrossing as Helen Garner's ac ...Show more
The Little Hotel (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
People live year after year in a hotel like this. We have their police papers, we know their sicknesses and family troubles; people come to confide in you. They tell you things they would not tell their own parents and friends, not even their lawyers and doctors. After the Second World War, bizarre char ...Show more
The Long Prospect by Elizabeth Harrower
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: very good
Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an Australian industrial town. Growing up neglected in a seedy boarding house, twelve-year-old Emily Lawrence befriends Max, a middle-aged scientist who encourages her to pursue her intellectual interests. Innocent Emily will ...Show more
The Middle Parts of Fortune: Text Classics by Frederic Manning
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"The drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great waves of sound, and hurrying them onwards to crash in surf on the enemy entrenchments. The windless air about them, by its very stillness, made that unearthly music more terrib ...Show more
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow: Text Classics by Thea Astley, Chloe Hooper
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife's death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody s ...Show more
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab: Text Classics by Fergus Hume
$14.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Fergus Hume's sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia's original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel. First published in 1886, it was an overnight sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and being translated into eleven languages. Over a ...Show more
The Odd Angry Shot by William Nagle
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War. Brief and bracing, tragic yet darkly funny, it portrays a close-knit group of knockabout SAS fighters: their mateship, homesickness and fears; their practical jokes, drinking and fighting. The enemy is not just the Viet ...Show more