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Soft cover. Condición: Good+. Paperback. Binding sound, text unmarked (but a bit age darkened), moderate cover shelfwear with some slight stress marks. Serviceable condition. Anthology of writings by explorers of Australia. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may be extra. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. Minor shelf wear, otherwise fine.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. First Edition. Trade paperback, new in wraps. First edition, 1st printing.

Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. First published by Text Publishing 2017. Trade paperback. Unmarked, square, and tight - as New.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. Hardcover in jacket. Book is sound and clean with mild shelfwear, jacket has a few small edge tears. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may be extra. Book.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Mass-market paperback. Condición: Fine. B-format paperback. 232 p. Audience: College/higher education; General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. SC 231.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. For many years it was assumed that poetry came from England. Research now clearly demonstrates, however, that a great many of the worlds most famous poets were actually Australians.Possibly the most important anthology ever published. The definitive collection featuring key works by such famous Australian poets as Gavin Milton, Arnold Wordsworth, Sylvia Blath, Very Manly Hopkins, R.A.C.V. Milne and Dylan Thompson. In the author's own words: possibly the most important anthology ever published. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Illustrated by Bird on red branch cover art Ilustrador. reprint edition". VERY GOOD Condition clean, solild,bright ; black titles on orange & whote paper covers.back cover has 1x2" photo of author & biog. ; 345pg pages; Australian Poet & novelis.Unique author.hymn to youth; sexual freedom; moral independence;

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. text Classics. 336 pages.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour they rise up and he is deposed, with the pigs taking charge of the newly named Animal Farm. Everything runs smoothly, productivity soars, and all animals are well-fed and happy.But the further away the memory of the revolution, the more distant seem its ideals-and when Boxer the workhorse is betrayed, the horrifying extent of the pigs' corruption is revealed.Orwell's 'fairy story', a scathing satire of Soviet communism, is as potent now as it was in 1945. Animal Farm is one of literature's most electrifying examinations of power and corruption. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Jamila is happy in her new home in Australia, though she still misses her old life in Iraq. She and her new best friend Eva sing side-by-side in the choir at school and have picnics together on the weekends.One day, Jamila gets some exciting news: Mina, her oldest friend from Iraq, is coming to Australia. Jamila cant wait to see her and introduce her to Eva. But when Mina arrives, things do not go as planned.Jamila feels torn between her two friends, and sad that Mina isnt the same person she remembers. Can Jamila be a true friend to Mina, and help her feel safe and happy in her new home? Ingrid Laguna returns to the beautiful characters of her debut middle-grade story Songbird, in this delightful companion novel about friendship, belonging and the importance of standing up for those you love. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The controller stood back.Right, he said. Spin em!The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down on to the carpet.There was silence.Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grants 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.This edition also includes an Afterword by film critic, David Stratton.Wake in Fright was made into a film in 1971, arguably the greatest film ever made in Australia. It starred Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, and Jack Thompson in his first screen role. Lost for many years, the restored film was re-released to acclaim in 2009. Wake in Fright is the original and greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. As we got closer I could see behind the sandstone a curved concrete building: a purpose-built structure. But still no fence, no wire. Not a bar in sight. For this, Id been told that morning, I should be grateful. This was a lifelinea last chance. That is what the judge said.Daniel is a sixteen-year-old drug dealer and he is going to jail.Then hes not.A courtroom intervention. A long car ride to a deluxe outback facility. Other gifted delinquents.Where are they?Its not a jail.Its not a psych unit.Its not like any school hes ever seen.He is sure he and the others are part of an experiment. But he doesnt know whos running it or what they are trying to prove. And he has no idea what the next seven months are going to do to him. A literary, and terrifyingly credible, novel about our juvenile justice system written by a lawyer working in the field. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An uplifting novel for 11-13 year olds about oppression, privilege, girls and womens' status, education and diversity, and also a heartwarming story about a girl with a missionTwelve-year-old Amal loves learning and dreams of becoming a teacher.Then something unimaginable happens-after an accidental run-in with the son of her village's corrupt landlord, she is forced to work as his family's servant to pay off her own family's debt.At the opulent and corrupt Khan estate, Amal realises she will have to find a way to work with others in order to bring about change, and to achieve her dreams.Inspired by Malala Yousafzai, Amal Unbound is a heartwarming story for brave girls everywhere. A brilliant book about diversity, privilege, girls and womens' status, education, corruption and oppression, but also about a girl with a mission. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In Helen Hodgmans dazzlingly written debut a young woman is trapped in a small city on an island at the end of the worldby motherhood and an absent husband, by busybody in-laws and neighbours, by a drab society yet to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. A darkly funny tale of a crack-up in stultifying suburbia, Blue Skies marked the emergence of a unique, acerbic voice in Australian fiction.This edition includes an introduction by the acclaimed Tasmanian author Danielle Wood. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Twenty years ago, when I first arrived on the plains, I kept my eyes open. I looked for anything in the landscape that seemed to hint at some elaborate meaning behind appearances.There is no book in Australian literature like The Plains. In the two decades since its first publication, this haunting novel has earned its status as a classic. A nameless young man arrives on the plains and begins to document the strange and rich culture of the plains families. As his story unfolds, the novel becomes, in the words of Murray Bail, a mirage of landscape, memory, love and literature itself. A young man arrives on the plains to document the strange, rich culture of the landowning families. This quest becomes his life. Teju Cole calls Murnane 'a genius on the level of Beckett.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Brownie and Lola are young and in love. But the odds-not to mention their mothers, the cops, welfare officers and the stifling conventions of 1950s Brisbane-are against them. When they are forced to face adult responsibilities, will they rise to the challenge, or fall apart?The Delinquents, Criena Rohan's classic novel of rock and roll, youthful rebellion and big dreams, is a love story for the ages. Rohan's 1962 novel of rock 'n' roll, youthful rebellion and big dreams is a love story for the ages. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War. Briefand bracing, tragic yet darkly funny, it portrays a close-knit group of knockabout SAS fighters-their mateship, homesickness and fears; their practical jokes, drinking and fighting. The enemy isnot just the Vietcong they've been sent to fight, but their superiors, the mud and torrential rain,and boredom.This edition comes with a new introduction by the renowned military historian Paul Ham, whowrites- 'The Odd Angry Shot reveals.how war damages and destroys not only life and limb, butalso the brains, hopes and dreams of everyone involved.It is an Australian Dispatchesand-like Michael Herr's classic, which came out two years later-it rips the scales from oureyes.' The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War. Brief and bracing, tragic yet darkly funny, it portrays a close-knit group of knockabout SAS fighters: their mateship, homesickness and fears; their practical jokes, drinking and fighting. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris, and tramping the streets and living in hostels in London.Down and Out in Paris and London is one of the great accounts of life in the underclass- of being hard-up and hungry, of sleeping in seedy hostels and working in squalid restaurants. George Orwell's first book published - when he was not yet thirty - is alive with the sights and smells of poverty. It is a revelatory memoir of surviving at the margins. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Everyone was very casual about it-carefully laconic. For the old soldiers it was another move-there had been plenty like this before-they knew what was coming.But the new men could sense the breath of the unknown and mysterious enemy-the shadows of the long green shore-and violence and death they did not know but had often dreamed about.Written in 1947 but not published until 1995, John Hepworth's debut novel is a gripping account of Australian soldiers fighting in New Guinea at the end of World War II.The product of Hepworth's own experience, The Long Green Shore recounts the lives-and deaths-of a group of soldiers battling the Japanese in the rain-soaked jungle. In sublime prose, it captures the terror and the monotony of war.On its publication The Long Green Shore was met with immediate critical acclaim. It was recognised as one of the world's great war novels. In sublime prose, this gripping account follows Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of WWII. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. I love you moreThan God loves the world.Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poemsabout social justice, revolution, free love, feminism and the experience of womendisplay a candour and dynamism unusual for her time and place. This essential new selection of her finest work, chosen and introduced by Gerald Murnane, reaffirms Harfords position as one of Australias pre-eminent modern poets. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has no alternative only to put up with the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Bailiffs or english landlords which is better known as Officers of Justice or Victorian PoliceOutlaw, murderer, self-proclaimed victim, Ned Kelly is an Australian icon. But who was he? Kellys extraordinary achievement is to have provided his own answer to that question. The Jerilderie Letter is his remarkable manifesto and a startling record of his voice.Kelly delivered his letter, which Joe Byrne had diligently written out, on Monday 10 February 1879, immediately after his gang had held up the Bank of New South Wales in Jerilderie. He gives an impassioned defence of his actions, condemns those who have wronged him, and sends a chilling warning to those who may yet defy him.This illustrated edition, transcribed from the manuscript now housed in the State Library of Victoria, includes a fascinating new introduction by the historian Alex McDermott. The Jerilderie Letter remains one of the most astonishing documents in Australian history. The Jerilderie Letter is Ned Kelly's manifesto, the story of a widow's son outlawed. ' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Introduced by Helen GarnerBarbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism-for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness.Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.'The terror Baynton evokes,' Helen Garner writes in her introduction to the book, 'is elemental, sexual, unabashedly female.''So precise, so complete, with such insight into detail and such force of statement, it ranks with the masterpieces of realism in any language.' Bulletin First published 1902, Bush Studies is famous for an unsentimental depiction of frontier life with its particular difficulties for women. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds, set during World War Two.Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room flat. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute-she sneaks out to join him.So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Miss Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take in the two children. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan-and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?This masterful work of historical fiction is equal parts adventure and a moving tale of family and identity-a classic in the making.Praise for The War that Saved My Life-'Achingly lovely.Nuanced and emotionally acute, this vivid tale from the wartime home front will have readers ages 10-14 wincing at Ada's stumbles and rejoicing to the point of tears in her victories.' Wall Street Journal'Ada's voice is brisk and honest; her dawning realizations are made all the more poignant for their simplicity. Things come to an explosive head, metaphorically and literally. Ignorance and abuse are brought to light, as are the healing powers of care, respect and love. Set against a backdrop of war and sacrifice, Ada's personal fight for freedom and ultimate triumph are cause for celebration.' Kirkus, starred review'Proving that her courage and compassion carry far more power than her disability, Ada earns self-respect, emerges a hero, and learns the meaning of home.' Publishers Weekly, starred review Taitulo original: The war that saved my life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The last Patrick White novel published in his lifetime, Memoirs of Many in One presents the eccentric, often fantastical recollections of the ageing actor, Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray. These are edited by the writer Patrick White, her friend and executor, who is often the target of her scorn. Witty and affecting, Memoirs reveals another side of Whites fiction even as it echoes many of the themes running through his work. A strong case could be made for White as the finest and most profound novelist anywhere in the world now working in EnglishMemoirs of Many in One will fascinate any reader. Washington PostA last work in which everything that was serious in the early books suffered a final daring transformation to burlesque: not least of all the author, that impossible person Patrick White. David Malouf An essential late novel from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.