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A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
Category: Biography | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The frank and intimate journey of self-discovery by author, critic and arts commentator Robert Dessaix. Confronting, revealing and candid, the book traces his life from adoption towards the end of World War II, to a most unusual childhood on Sydney's North Shore, to his fascination with Russia and his t ...Show more
BECAUSE A WHITE MAN WILL NEVER by GILBERT, KEVIN
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
First published in 1973, Kevin Gilbert's controversial account of Aboriginal affairs is a damning portrait of the colonization of Australia by Britain, and the problems that have resulted. It tells the story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridi ...Show more
Banjo Paterson Complete Poems by Banjo Paterson
Category: Poetry | Series: A&R Classics
When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'The Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. Today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favou ...Show more
Because A White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert
Category: History | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Kevin Gilbert's powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism. First published in 1973, Gilbert's controversial account of ...Show more
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
This novel, winner of the Sesquicentennial Literary Prize, offers an insight into Aboriginal issues and race relations.
Cattle King by Ion L. Idriess
Category: Australian History | Series: A&R Classics
At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. Above all, Kidman created a mighty cattle empire of more than a hundred stations, fighting droughts, bush ...Show more
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
Coonardoo by Katherine Prichard
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
A tough, uncompromising novel about the difficult love between a white man and a black woman. Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo a ...Show more
EXILES AT HOME by MODJESKA, DRUSILLA
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Exiles At Home traces the lives of a generation of Australia's women writers through letters, diaries, notebooks and the memories of their contemporaries. 'Invaluable to all readers seriously interested in the history of Australian literature.' - Weekend AustralianAt the end of the 1920s Christina Stead ...Show more
Haxby's Circus by Katharine S Prichard
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Run away to the circus with this book by award-winning Australian novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard. Welcome to Haxby's Circus, the lightest, brightest little show on earth. From Bendigo to Narrabri, the Haxby family and their troupe pitch the big top, hang the lights and call out their menagerie. Gi ...Show more
Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole
Category: Biography | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in t ...Show more