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Clean Straw for Nothing / A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
Clean Straw for Nothing traces the journey of war correspondent David Meredith as he abandons his career to live on a Greek island with his beautiful wife. A Cartload of Clay brings David back to Australia where he rediscovers his deep affection for his native land.
Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
In the sequel to his semi-autobiographical novel My Brother Jack, George Johnston concludes his Meredith trilogy in this brilliantly evocative, single volume of books two and three: Clean Straw for Nothing (winner of the Miles Franklin Award) and A Cartload of Clay. Set against the backdrop of a Greek ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Australian Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
Category: Fiction
David and Jack grow up in suburban Melbourne during World War I. This story is an exploration of two Australian myths - that of the man who loses this soul as he gains wordly success, and that of tough, honest, Aussie battler, whose greatest ambition is to serve his country during the war.
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
Category: Fiction
Through the story of two brothers who grew up in patriotic, suburban Melbourne, George Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths - that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success, and that of the tough, honest, Aussie battler. It is a TV miniseries due in 2001.
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
Category: Classic
David and Jack grow up in suburban Melbourne during World War I. This story is an exploration of two Australian myths - that of the man who loses this soul as he gains wordly success, and that of tough, honest, Aussie battler, whose greatest ambition is to serve his country during the war.
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
Category: Classic
David and Jack grow up in suburban Melbourne during World War I. This story is an exploration of two Australian myths - that of the man who loses this soul as he gains wordly success, and that of tough, honest, Aussie battler, whose greatest ambition is to serve his country during the war.
The Sponge Divers POD by Charmian Clift and George Johnston
Category: Fiction
In the eastern Mediterranean stands the rocky Greek island of Kalymnos, ten miles long by five wide. For some three thousand years its ships have put out to sea. In recent generations the men of Kalymnos have been sponge divers, then somewhere a chemist learned to make a synthetic sponge, perhaps not so ...Show more
The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II by George H. Johnston
Category: Military
"No other writer has turned out a book on the fighting in New Guinea that can match Mr. Johnston's. Superior literary quality projects this work far in advance of those earlier and more hasty accounts. Mr. Johnston is a young Australian war correspondent who lived through most of the action he describes ...Show more
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