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A Kindness Cup: Text Classics by Thea Astley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"A writer of astonishing gifts." --Publishers Weekly "Smart, compassionate." --New York Times Text Classics presents four key works from Thea Astley, including two never previously released in the United States. Two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, the former residents of a Queens ...Show more
A Pure Clear Light: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project...what could go wrong? A Pure Clear Lightexamines a marriage at the moment it goes hapless ...Show more
All The Green Year by Don Charlwood; Michael McGirr (Introduction by)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | 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
Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics by Sumner Locke Elliot
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | 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."
Chantic Bird:Text Classics by David Ireland; George Williamson
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I'm only telling you this to let you know what a silly thing it is to live like I do. What it was, I got sacked from my seventeenth job for fighting or gambling - I don't know which - and because I was hardly ever there. I was gambling all right, but someone called me a cheat and swung at me, I moved my ...Show more
Dog Boy: Text Classics by Eva Hornung; Yann Martel (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2010Introduced by Yann MartelAbandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There in the rich smelly darkness, in the rub of hair, claws and teeth, he joins four puppies suckling at their mother's ...Show more
Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | 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
For the Term of His Natural Life: Text Classics by Marcus Clarke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | 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.
Happy Valley: Text Classics by Patrick White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Patrick White's magnificent debut novel - first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic.Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valleypaints a portrait of a community in a desolate landsc ...Show more
Honour & Other People's Children: Text Classics by Helen Garner
$12.99 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
I for Isobel Text Classics by Amy Witting; Charlotte Wood (Introduction by)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collectio ...Show more