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Midnite: Story of a Wild Colonial Boy by Randolph Stow
Category: Junior Fiction
Even though MIDNITEwas seventeen, he wasn't very bright. So when his father died, his five animal friends decided to look after him. Khat, the Siamese, suggested he became a bushranger, and his horse, Red Ned, offered to help. But it wasn't very easy, especially when Trooper O'Grady kept putting him in ...Show more
The Girl Green as Elderflower: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
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The Land's Meaning: New Selected Poems by Randolph Stow
Category: Poetry
In The Land's Meaning, John Kinsella brings together selected works of one of Australia's finest modernist poets. Including previously uncollected pieces, the volume's wide-ranging introduction provides a rich context for the work of this extraordinary and important poet in the most comprehensive collec ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When he returns from the war years later, he ha ...Show more
The Merry Go Round in the Sea - Penguin Australian Classics by Randolph Stow
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns from the war several years la ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins by Randolph Stow
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years later, he has changed and the old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea - The Play by Andrew Ross; Dickon Oxenburgh; Randolph Stow (Based on a novel by)
Category: Classic
A semi-autobiographical account of Rob Coram's growth from the age of six to fourteen, in the West Australian coastal town of Geraldton, and its surrounding pastoral districts, in the 1930s and l940s.