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1788: Text Classics by Watkin Tench
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius." In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Sydney Cove with the First Fleet. This curious young captain of the marines was a natural storyteller ...Show more
A Dutiful Daughter by Thomas Keneally; Geordie Williamson (Introduction by)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals.Barbara Glover?s parents metamorphosed when she hit puberty, becoming bovine from the waist down. Fearful of her transformative powers, she tends diligently to them, keeping them like animals on the family?s remote ...Show more
A Lifetime on Clouds (Text Classics) by Gerald Murnane
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s - the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever. Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart a ...Show more
All The Green Year by Don Charlwood; Michael McGirr (Introduction by)
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It was the end of an era; a year of 'outlandish happenings'; a time when everything seemed to change for Charlie Reeve, a daydreaming lad growing up in a small town on the Mornington Peninsula. His teacher and dad are giving him a hard time, his neighbour Squid keeps getting him into trouble, and his be ...Show more
Cafe Scheherazade: Text Classics by Arnold Zable
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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
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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
Dark Places: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics
This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and such is the nature of this intractable universe that the only thing you can start with is yourself. Dark Places, a companion novel to Lilian’s Story, is ...Show more
Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads--'full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back'. Drylands is the story of the townsfolk's ...Show more
Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics by Ruth Park
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Category: Auto/Biography | 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: Auto/Biography | 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
For the Term of His Natural Life: Text Classics by Marcus Clarke
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wrongfully convicted, a young aristocrat is sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. There he is forced to endure tremendous suffering, from the cruelty of those in power to the harsh untamed country. Dawes remains determined to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.
Honour & Other People's Children: Text Classics by Helen Garner
$14.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Two novellas, delving into our connections with those we love, and the pain of breaking those connections. Introduced by Michael Sala.In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, and share the parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathle ...Show more