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Cafe Scheherazade: Text Classics by Arnold Zable
$12.95 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade. Thus begins Arnold Zable's haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that ...Show more
Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics by Sumner Locke Elliot
$14.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Based on the childhood of Sumner Locke Elliot, this novel is set in the Great Depression. PB, an orphan, lives a secure working-class life in Sydney. That's all about to change, however, when his Aunt Vanessa arrives from London and scoops him up to raise him as her own child."
For the Term of His Natural Life: Text Classics by Marcus Clarke
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wrongfully convicted, a young aristocrat is sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. There he is forced to endure tremendous suffering, from the cruelty of those in power to the harsh untamed country. Dawes remains determined to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.
I for Isobel Text Classics by Amy Witting; Charlotte Wood (Introduction by)
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collectio ...Show more
Lilian's Story: Text Classic by Kate Grenville
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I was still not permitted to decline those tennis parties. 'You must not close off your options,' Father said, and tweaked at one of the unflattering frills on my dress. In her much-loved debut novel, Kate Grenville took inspiration from the legendary Sydney eccentric Bea Miles to fashion the fictional ...Show more
The Australian Ugliness: Text Classics by Robin Boyd; Christos Tsiolkas (Introduction by)
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Brilliant, witty, scathing, The Australian Uglinessis the classic postwar account of Australian society, how we live in the environments we create, and the consequences of our failure to think about how we live. Boyd was a fierce critic, and an advocate of good design. He understood the significance of ...Show more
The Plains: Text Classics by Gerald Murnane
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Category: New Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This is the story of the families of the plains--obsessed with their land and history, their culture and mythology--and of the man who ventured into their world.First published in 1982, The Plainsis a mesmerising work of startling originality. This handsome new hardback edition is introduced by Ben Ler ...Show more
The Suburbs of Hell - Text Classics by Randolph Stow; Michelle de Kretser (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
His eyes are on the one eye of the rifle. His mouth splits open his brown beard. He throws up a hand, palm outward, in an unwilled, futile gesture to ward off death. A killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed in ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: New Adult 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
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
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