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D'arcy Niland - Short Story Collection (CD) by Niland D'arcy
Category: Audio Books
These collected short stories of D'arcy Niland are brilliantly written depicting an era of Australia life with clarity and colour. D'arcy Niland travelled around Australia and lived among the people he writes about. All the characters in these stories are so real you feel you know them intimately. Each ...Show more
THE SHIRALEE by D'ARCY NILAND
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
To Macauley the child was his 'shiralee' - a burden and a handicap, and also a constant reminder of bitterness and failure. It was in his nature to do things the hard way; the way he saw it, there was no other choice. What he hadn't taken into account was the child's overwhelming need for love. Niland's ...Show more
The Shiralee by D'Arcy Niland
Category: Fiction
His style is realistically forthright and uninhibited, his prose crisp, and, at times, tremendously vivid' Walkabout A shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone - and that's what four-year-old Buster is to her father, Macauley. He takes the child on the road with him to spite his wife, but month ...Show more
The Shiralee by D'Arcy Niland
Category: Classic
"The Shiralee" tells the story of the itinerant rural worker Macauley - sometimes described as a 'swagman' or 'swaggie' - who suddenly finds himself taking responsibility for his child. Having returned from 'walkabout', he finds his wife entwined in the arms of another, and so he takes his four-year-old ...Show more
The Shiralee (Popular Penguin) by D'Arcy Niland
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Everyone has their cross to bear – their swag, their shiralee – and for Macauley, walking across New South Wales in search of work, it is his young daughter who has to suffer his resentment at having her in tow. But then, he discovers that the ties that bind can be as much a comfort as a burden, and wha ...Show more
The Shiralee audio by D'arcy Niland
Category: Audio Books
A true Australian classic, warmly welcomed into the Bolinda Classics range. A shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone - and that's what four-year-old Buster is to her father, Macauley. He takes the child on the road with him to spite his wife, but months pass and still no word comes to ask for ...Show more
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