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The Girl Green as Elderflower: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: CLA | Series: Text Classics
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The Glass Canoe: Text Classics by David Ireland
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners | 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 Idea of Perfection: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
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Category: Literature | 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 Last Days of Chez Nous and Two Friends: Text Classics by Helen Garner; Laura Jones (Afterword by)
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Category: Plays | 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 Multiple Effects of Rainshadow: Text Classics by Thea Astley, Chloe Hooper
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Category: No Category | 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 Plains: Text Classics by Gerald Murnane
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This is the story of the families of the plains--obsessed with their land and history, their culture and mythology--and of the man who ventured into their world.First published in 1982, The Plainsis a mesmerising work of startling originality. This handsome new hardback edition is introduced by Ben Ler ...Show more
The Refuge by Kenneth Mackenzie
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Late at night Lloyd Fitzherbert, police reporter with the Sydney Gazette, is picked up by his man in CIB for a 'last-minute job that won't take a minute' at the morgue. A body has been found in the harbour. Irma, a beautiful young woman who fled persecution in Nazi Europe, is dead. She was Fitzherbert's ...Show more
The Tournament: Text Classics by John Clarke
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Category: General | Series: Text Classics Ser.
The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 of the world's most creative players - everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco ...Show more
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner: Text Classics by David Ireland
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics
What was Puroil? At Clearwater it was a sprawling refinery, an army of white shirts, a fleet of wagons, a number of apparently separate companies, dozens of monolithic departments protected from each other by an armour of functional difference and jealousy. On the refinery site it was two hundred and fi ...Show more
The Visit: Text Classics by Amy Witting
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Category: CLA | Series: Text Classics
In The Visit-Amy Witting's debut novel, first published when she was almost sixty-a group of Bangoree residents gather to read plays by Beckett and Brecht. But their literary pursuits, and their lives, take an unexpected turn after it is revealed that the late Roderick Fitzallan set some of his celebrat ...Show more
The Watch Tower: Text Classics by Elizabeth Harrower
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Category: Literature | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly withdraws from them, the tw ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more