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Advance Australia Fair by Arnold Adoff
$9.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Presents Australia's national anthem and illustrates it with paintings from some of Australia's finest artists including Fred McCubbin, Margaret Preston and Tom Roberts. Each painting depicts an aspect of the Australian landscape and culture and reflects the artist's view of the country.
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti ...Show more
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian Classics
Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal. 'Capricornia will always be one of the greatest of Australian novels, a defining w ...Show more
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - Penguin Australian Classics by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Two rural families - the Pickles and the Lambs - flee to the city after separate catastrophes. They find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch - and for twenty years, they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the ...Show more
Come in Spinner by D Cusack, F James
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian Classics
Come in Spinner, a collaboration with Florence James, was an immediate sensation when it was first published in an abridged edition in 1951. (The complete edition was published by A&R in the 1980s.) Set in a beauty salon at the Hotel South Pacific in wartime Sydney, it revolves around the lives and ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
Fortunate Life - Penguin Australian Classics (HB) by A. B. Facey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
A true classic of Australian literature, this simply written autobiography is an inspiration Born in 1894, Albert Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, and spent 60 years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite endu ...Show more
Looking for Crabs by Bruce Whatley
$4.99 AUD
$5.99 (16% off)
Category: Childrens | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A family on holiday at the beach go looking for crabs in rock pools, under little rocks at the bottom of the pools, under really big rocks, or looking for hermit crabs living in little shells. They go away thinking perhaps there are no crabs at that beach. The delightful illustrations accompanying the t ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to ...Show more
One Crowded Hour: Neil Davis - Combat Cameraman (1934-85) POD by Tim Bowden
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian Classics
First published in 1987, it remains a must-read for aspiring photographers, cinematographers, journalists and war buffs. For over twenty years, from the early 1960s, Neil Davis brought enduring images of the full horror of modern war directly from the battlefront to the world's television screens. Davis ...Show more
Rabbit-Proof Fence by Larissa Behrendt
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Three Aboriginal girls have been forcibly removed from their outback families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants, as part of official government policy. They escape and begin a 1500-mile journey home using a rabbit-proof fence as a guide, with authorities chasing them all the way. Adapted fro m ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Short excerpt: Without doubt she was the worst of the seven probably because she was the cleverest. Her brilliant inventive powers plunged them all into ceaseless scrapes.