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Blue Skies: Text Classics by Helen Hodgman
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In Helen Hodgman's dazzlingly written debut a young woman is trapped in a small city on an island at the end of the world - by motherhood and an absent husband, by busybody in-laws and neighbours, by a drab society yet to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. A darkly funny tale of a crack-up in ...Show more
Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics by Tom Keneally
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"At the world's end, it is Sunday afternoon in February. Through the edge of the forest a soldier moves without any idea he's caught in a mesh of sunlight and shade. Corporal Halloran's this fellow's name. He's a lean boy taking long strides through the Sabbath heat." A South Pacific penal colony in the ...Show more
Bush Studies: Text Classics by Barbara Baynton
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Category: General | Series: Text Classics
Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism - for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and ...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
Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics by Sumner Locke Elliot
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Category: Classics | 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."
Carry Me Down Text Classic by M. J. Hyland
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland. The Guinness Book of Records is his favourite book and he wants to visit Niagara Falls with his mother. But, more than anything, he is determined to become a world-famous lie detector, almost at any cost. Carry Me Down is written ...Show more
Chantic Bird:Text Classics by David Ireland; George Williamson
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Category: Classics | 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
Cosmo Cosmolino - Text Classics by Helen Garner; Ramona Koval (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
'Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia.'Bulletin Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing of ukel ...Show more
Dancing on Coral: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1987 by Adams Glenda
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
'She's going now,' said Henry Watter if he said anything at all. Or, 'It's a tricky place, the world. You've got to be sharp to manage it."Leave her be. She'll be back,' said Mrs Watter. 'This is her home. She knows that.' Lark Watter had always planned to run away from her stifling suburban life in 196 ...Show more
Dark Places: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
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Category: Classics | 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
Death in Brunswick (Text Classics) by Boyd Oxlade
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Category: General | Series: Text Classics
Introduced by Shane Maloney Down on his luck and hard up for cash, Carl works in the kitchen of a seedy rock 'n' roll joint in ethnically diverse Brunswick. The bouncers and bosses terrify him, he's desperately in love with a much younger Greek waitress, and to make matters worse his mother has come to ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the subject keeps changing." An ageing writer fills his journal: he has opinions about everything. He is challenged by Anya, the smart, irreverent young woman he hires to type his notes. Anya's boyfriend sc ...Show more