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Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in t ...Show more
Henry Lawson: Selected Stories by Henry Lawson
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: A&R Classics
This collection showcases some of the very best of Henry Lawson's short fiction. These are tales dealing with Lawson's perennially popular themes - love, adventure, humour and the home.
Kenneth Slessor Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gift and Humour | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
One of Australia's finest poets, Kenneth Slessor would be outstanding in any company. His brilliance of technique gives an impression of unconscious mastery in poems that are always arresting in conception and illuminating in image. Slessor was born in 1901 in Orange, New South Wales. He was educated in ...Show more
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A&R Classics
'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAESTRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one ...Show more
My Love Must Wait by Ernestine Hill
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Talks about the life and love of Matthew Flinders and the woman he had to leave behind. Flinders is in search of high adventure, abandoning his wife for uncharted seas, exotic tropic islands, and the loneliness and living hell of six years captivity on a French island. This is a story about romance and ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
Sentimental Bloke by C. J. Dennis
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
"For the first time in one volume here are the complete verse stories of the Sentimental Bloke, Doreen, Ginger Mick, Digger Smith and Rose. Dennis's larrikins, lasses, soldiers and settlers won the hearts of Australians when they first appeared early last century. Such is the humanity to be found in the ...Show more
The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
'An exquisitely crafted journey of Australian suburban life ...fresh and irresistible' - Miles Franklin Literary Award judges As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, Vic, Rita and their son, Michael, are off to a party. George Bedser has invited the whole neighbourhood ...Show more
The Cattle King by Ion L Idriess
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. This book is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King.
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The extraordinary Booker Prize shortlisted story of a black man's revenge against an unjust and intolerant society. Thomas Keneally was born in Sydney Australia in 1935. He studied to be a Catholic priest but abandoned his vocation to take up teaching and writing. He is the author of numerous works of f ...Show more
Wild Cat Falling by Mudrooroo
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
This was the first novel by a writer of Aboriginal blood to be published in Australia and in 1965 marked a unique literary event. "Wild Cat Falling" is the story of an Australia Aboriginal youth who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town. He falls into petty crime, goes to gaol and comes out ...Show more
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