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A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon.
A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon. 'Les Carlyon has died, and Australia has lost one of its greatest wordsmiths.' Greg Baum, The Age 'He's been called Australia's Damon Runyon, but that tag is far too limiting to do him justice. Certainly his ...Show more
Gallipoli by Les Carlyon
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A magisterial account of the campaign, and the greatest work to be written on this seminal Australian drama since Alan Moorehead's brilliant recreation 50 years ago. Researched in Turkey, Great Britain and Australia, Carlyon's book recounts the individual experiences of battle.
Gallipoli by Les Carlyon
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
"The book of the year" (Alan Ramsey, Sydney Morning Herald)Les Carlyon's Gallipoli is one of the most successful, and critically acclaimed, works of Australian non-fiction published in the last decade. In hardback we sold almost 60,000 copies in the first four months of publication. The paperback has be ...Show more
Gallipoli (Centenary Edition) by Les Carlyon
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
"The book of the year" (Alan Ramsey, Sydney Morning Herald)Les Carlyon's Gallipoli is one of the most successful, and critically acclaimed, works of Australian non-fiction published in the last decade. In hardback we sold almost 60,000 copies in the first four months of publication. The paperback has be ...Show more
Great War: Centenary Edition by Les Carlyon
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Les Carlyon's The Great War is the epic story of the fighting men who wove themselves into legend as part of the largest tragedy in Australian history - 179,000 dead and wounded - leaving a nation to mourn its fallen heroes in 'one long national funeral' into the 1930s and, now again, a century later. A ...Show more
Iron Rose - Text Classics by Peter Temple; Les Carlyon (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | 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
Master: A Personal Portrait of Bart by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Horseracing
In the world of horse racing, Bart Cummings is the master. His astonishing tally of twelve Melbourne Cup wins arguably makes him the greatest trainer in Australia's history and, by statistical measures, as freakish as Bradman. His laconic wit and indifference to the trappings of wealth and fame have see ...Show more
The Great War by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago. In The Great War, Carlyon ...Show more
The Great War by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Gives an extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago.
The Master: A Personal Portrait of Bart Cummings by Les Carlyon
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
In the world of horse racing, Bart Cummings is the master. His astonishing tally of twelve Melbourne Cup wins arguably makes him the greatest trainer in Australia's history and, by statistical measures, as freakish as Bradman. His laconic wit and indifference to the trappings of wealth and fame have see ...Show more