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A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park
Category: Biography
Written as vividly as any of her novels, Ruth Park's autobiography is a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years. Her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand fed her fertile imagination; her convent education encouraged her love of wo ...Show more
A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park
Category: Audio Books SPECIALS
Ruth Park spent her childhood in isolated rainforests in New Zealand, followed by a convent education and then bitter years during the Depression when she was exposed to poverty and injustice. She entered the tough world of journalism and started a reluctant correspondence with D'Arcy Niland, whom she l ...Show more
A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park
Category: Biography
First volume of Ruth Park's autobiography. Written as vividly as any of her novels; a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years.
A Power of Roses by Ruth Park
Category: Fiction
Roses were rarely seen at the old Jerusalem hotel. Life is hard, and for some of the tenants a luxury might be warm feet, cat's meat stew or a five-bob coat from a jumble sale. In A Power of Roses, Ruth Park draws vivid portraits of Miriam, the tough adolescent heroine; her Uncle Puss, a canny old Irish ...Show more
Callie by Ruth Park
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Two favourites in one volume. Callie's Castle introduces Callie Cameron, who is unhappy with her friend Frances, her family and, well, life. With her brothers and sister running riot through her bedroom, reading her diary and ruining her treasures, she's desperate for a space to call her own. Even the p ...Show more
Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics by Ruth Park
Category: Biography | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This first volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression.She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journalism and began a rel ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park
Category: Biography
The second volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is the tender portrait of her partnership with D'Arcy Niland in life and work. They were two talented, volatile people who shared dreams, disappointments and triumphs.
Fishing in the Styx : An Autobiography by Ruth Park
Category: Biography Memoir
Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to continue her work as a journalist, newly married to D'Arcy Niland. Determined to earn their living as writers, they submitted story outlines to radio stations, idea for articles to newspapers and accepted whatever freelance jobs came their way. The Har ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics by Ruth Park
Category: Biography | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to continue her work as a journalist, newly married to D'Arcy Niland. Determined to earn their living as writers, they submitted story outlines to radio stations, idea for articles to newspapers and accepted whatever freelance jobs came their way. The Har ...Show more