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Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
Category: No Category | 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: No Category | 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: No Category | 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.
Coonardoo by PRICHARD KATHERINE SUSANNAH
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
Henry Lawson Poems by Henry Lawson
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First published in 1979, this edition includes 30 new selections, including highly significant poems addressed to his lost love, Hannah Thorburn, and some for young children.
Henry Lawson: Selected Stories by Henry Lawson
Category: No Category | Series: A&R Classics
This collection showcases some of the very best of Henry Lawson's short fiction. These are tales dealing with Lawson's perennially popular themes - love, adventure, humour and the home.
Here's Luck by Lennie Lower
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Still considered one of Australia's funniest books ever, Here's Luck is Lennie Lower's most inspired lunacy. Here's Luck, Lennie Lower's wild and uproarious masterpiece, is set in Sydney during the early depression years and follows the hilarious exploits of its hero and narrator, Jack Gudgeon. Deserted ...Show more
JONAH by LOUIS STONE
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Jonah by Louis Stone is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
Poems by Banjo Paterson
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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
Sentimental Bloke by C. J. Dennis
Category: No Category | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
"For the first time in one volume here are the complete verse stories of the Sentimental Bloke, Doreen, Ginger Mick, Digger Smith and Rose. Dennis's larrikins, lasses, soldiers and settlers won the hearts of Australians when they first appeared early last century. Such is the humanity to be found in the ...Show more
Wild Cat Falling by Mudrooroo
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
This was the first novel by a writer of Aboriginal blood to be published in Australia and in 1965 marked a unique literary event. "Wild Cat Falling" is the story of an Australia Aboriginal youth who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town. He falls into petty crime, goes to gaol and comes out ...Show more
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