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The Battlers by Kylie Tennant
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Australian Classics
The flowers flared up from the ground unconquerable. The unrepentant gaiety of the weed, the burning blues and crimsons, set the hills glowing. 'It's a plant that's struck it lucky,' the Stray said thoughtfully. 'It hasn't got no right, but it's there.' The Battlers is the story of Snow, a drifter and w ...Show more
The Boat - Penguin Australian Classics by Nam Le
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war. Each st ...Show more
The Bodysurfers - Penguin Australian Classics by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy se ...Show more
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Classics Series
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. 'You've never been in control, until now; you've never, before, had exactly what you want...The lights turned off. A touch that's gentle, slow, provocative, that builds you up, that makes you ...Show more
The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer by Oliné Keese; Jenna Mead (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Australian Classics Library
Caroline Leakey, writing as Oline Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middle-class woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then wrongly convicted of infanticide. The novel's title de ...Show more
The Coast Watchers by Eric Feldt
Category: Military | Series: Australian War Classics
After Pearl harbour was bombed in 1941 the war in the Pacific gained momentum; Japanese troops began to move relentlessly south, towards Australia. Determined to provide an information network along the vulnerable coastlines of Northern Australia and the islands to the north, the Australian Navy develop ...Show more
The Confessions of a Beachcomber by E.J. Banfield
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Australian Classics S.
Queensland's Dunk Island epitomises the image of the idyllic island retreat, and it is Banfield's account of daily life on the island, in this title, which has captured the imagination of readers around the world. His decision to retire from his strenuous public life to Dunk island sparked a trend, that ...Show more
The Devil's Playground by Christos Tsiolkas
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Fred Schepisi's film, 'The Devil's Playground' is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith. Made in 1976, this semi-autobiog ...Show more
The Getting of Wisdom - Penguin Australian Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
When Laura Rambotham arrives at an exclusive Melbourne girls school from her country home, she is ridiculed by the other pupils for her differences - her name, her unusual clothes and, especially, for her 'unpardonable sin': her exceptional musical ability. Laura endures ostracism and misery as she trie ...Show more
The Harp In The South - Penguin Australian Classics by Ruth Park
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is scarce and life is not easy. Crammed together within the thin walls of Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street are the Darcy family: Mumma, loving and softhearted; Hughie, her drunken husband; pipe-smoking Grandma; ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney Bulletin' in 1892 when they decided to have a duel of poetry. The idea was to increase the number of poems they could sell to the paper. It began in fun but later became bitter. Paterson wrote many poems and stories about his travels in the Out ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
Category: Education | Series: Australian Classics Library
Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited Publication date: 1908 Subjects: History / Australia