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The True Story of Spit MacPhee: Text Classics by James Aldridge
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
When young Spit MacPhee comes to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen fear for his future. Fyfe MacPhee is a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit has to fend for himself along the riverbank where they live. While some people feel that Spit can look after himself, ...Show more
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner: Text Classics by David Ireland
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
What was Puroil? At Clearwater it was a sprawling refinery, an army of white shirts, a fleet of wagons, a number of apparently separate companies, dozens of monolithic departments protected from each other by an armour of functional difference and jealousy. On the refinery site it was two hundred and fi ...Show more
The Visit: Text Classics by Amy Witting
Category: Classic | Series: Text Classics
In The Visit-Amy Witting's debut novel, first published when she was almost sixty-a group of Bangoree residents gather to read plays by Beckett and Brecht. But their literary pursuits, and their lives, take an unexpected turn after it is revealed that the late Roderick Fitzallan set some of his celebrat ...Show more
The Watch Tower: Text Classics by Elizabeth Harrower
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly withdraws from them, the tw ...Show more
The Watcher in the Garden by Joan Phipson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Trespassing in Mr Lovett's secluded garden was a welcome escape for sixteen-year-old Catherine. A haven away from the parents who didn't understand her moodiness and from her pretty, even-tempered sister, Diana, who she resented. It was a place to be alone. But this all changes when Catherine is confron ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
The Young Desire It: Text Classics by Kenneth Mackenzie
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private pa ...Show more
The Young Desire It - Text Classics by Kenneth Mackenzie
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private pa ...Show more
They Found a Cave: Text Classics by Nan Chauncy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Four English orphans - Cherry, Nigel, Brick and Nippy - migrate to Tasmania, to the care of their Aunt Jandie on her farm outside Hobart. Their arrival is greeted with enthusiasm by young farm boy Tas, and weeks of exploration and good times follow before Aunt Jandie goes to hospital, leaving the childr ...Show more
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They're a Weird Mobis an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear fo ...Show more
Time without Clocks: Text Classics by Joan Lindsay
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Time Without Clocks is a 1962 autobiographical novel by Joan Lindsay that recounts Lindsay's early years married to prolific Australian artist Daryl Lindsay.
To The Wild Sky (Text Classics) by Ivan Southall
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
No one had talked about fuel; what was the use of talking, anyway? But they all knew that engines which run on fuel have to run out of fuel sometime, and that the Egret just couldn't keep on going for ever. They seemed to have been sitting in this plane, imprisoned, for days, waiting to die. Gerald just ...Show more