| Title | : | Dot and the Kangaroo |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1404301569 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 116 |
Little Dot had lost her way in the bush She knew it and was very frightened....
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Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Saturday, 12 November 2016
Dot and the Kangaroo By Ethel C. Pedley
Friday, 11 November 2016
Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1) By Ethel Turner
| Title | : | Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1406567892 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 148 |
Ethel Sybil Turner 1872 1958 was an Australian novelist and children s writer She was educated at Paddington Public School and Sydney Girls High School She started her writing career at eighteen with her sister Lilian Her best known work is her first novel, Seven Little Australians 1894 , which is widely considered as a classic of Australian children s literature Th Ethel Sybil Turner 1872 1958 was an Australian novelist and children s writer She was educated at Paddington Public School and Sydney Girls H...
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Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Missus By Ruth Park
| Title | : | Missus |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0170065944 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 247 |
Missus takes us behind the lives of Hughie and Mumma, out of the gritty realism of inner city slum life and into the past of the stations, the bush and the country towns.We meet them as they were in the early 1920s, drifter Hugh Darcy, the unwilling hero who sweeps the dreamily innocent Margaret Kilker off her feet Ruth Park richly creates the turmoil of those early days Missus takes us behind the lives of Hughie and Mumma, out of the gritty realism of inner city slum life and into the past of t...
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Monday, 1 August 2016
Sunnyside By Joanna Murray-Smith
| Title | : | Sunnyside |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0670042978 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 396 |
Alice and Harry Haskins move to Sunnyside, a beach side suburb, where affluent, educated men and women buffer themselves against disaffection and boredom with big houses, swimming pools, cocktail parties and tennis tournaments Their seemingly perfect world is threatened by the revelation of best friend Molly s affair with the pool man....
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Monday, 2 May 2016
That Deadman Dance By Kim Scott
| Title | : | That Deadman Dance |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1608197794 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 |
Throughout Bobby Wabalanginy s young life, the ships have been arriving, bringing European settlers to the south coast of Western Australia, where Bobby s people, the Noongar people, have always lived Bobby, smart, resourceful, and eager to please, has befriended the settlers, joining them as they hunt whales, till the land, and work to establish their new colony He is w Throughout Bobby Wabalanginy s young life, the ships have been arriving, bringing European settlers to the south coast of West...
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Thursday, 31 March 2016
Journey to the Stone Country By Alex Miller
| Title | : | Journey to the Stone Country |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0340766921 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 364 |
Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she meets Bo Rennie, one of the Jangga tribe Intrigued by Bo s claim that he holds the key to her future, Annabelle sets out with him on a path of recovery that leads back to her childhood and into the Jangga s ancient heartland, where their grandparen Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she...
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Saturday, 20 February 2016
All the Rivers Run By Nancy Cato
| Title | : | All the Rivers Run |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0451125355 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 630 |
A WOMAN IN A MAN S WORLDHer handsome, laughing cousin Adam gave young Delie Gordon her first taste of love its soaring happiness, its heartbreaking pain.Virile, self confident riverboat captain Brenton Edwards showed Delie her weakness in the face of a man s overwhelming passion but though he made her his wife, he could not enslave her proud and defiant spirit.Wealthy an A WOMAN IN A MAN S WORLDHer handsome, laughing cousin Adam gave young Delie Gordon her first taste of love its soaring happiness, its he...
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Friday, 24 October 2014
All in the Blue Unclouded Weather (The Melling Sisters, #1) By Robin Klein
| Title | : | All in the Blue Unclouded Weather (The Melling Sisters, #1) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0140349820 |
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A collection of interlinked stories set in the late 1940s in an Australian country town which focus on the four young Melling sisters Each story links the girls and their friends together in a variety of domestic events and problems The stories present a nostalgic feel for the post war years....
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Thursday, 9 October 2014
Mr. Scobie's Riddle By Elizabeth Jolley
| Title | : | Mr. Scobie's Riddle |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0140074902 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 226 |
A black comedy, this novel deals with a group of people in the care of Matron Price who has two saints instead of one to decorate her main entrance....
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The Spare Room By Helen Garner
| Title | : | The Spare Room |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1847672655 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 195 |
How much of ourselves must we give up to help a friend in need Helen has little idea what lies ahead and what strength she must muster when she offers her spare room to an old friend, Nicola, who has arrived in the city for cancer treatment Skeptical of the medical establishment, and placing all her faith in an alternative health center, Nicola is determined to find her How much of ourselves must we give up to help a friend in need Helen has little idea what lies ahead and what strength she must muster wh...
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Tuesday, 23 September 2014
1915 By Roger McDonald
| Title | : | 1915 |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0807609498 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 426 |
The tragedy and violence of that event provide the climax to this very personal, moving and surprisingly romantic story With remarkable skill and in achingly beautiful prose, Roger McDonald takes the reader on an archetypal Australian journey which parallels the nation s progress from its country childhood, through the adolescent exuberance of its young cities, to initiat The tragedy and violence of that event provide the climax to this very personal, moving and surprisingly romantic story With remarkable...
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Monday, 7 April 2014
The Fringe Dwellers By Nene Gare
| Title | : | The Fringe Dwellers |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | |
| Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 257 |
Two sisters, Noonah and Trilby, are young, beautiful and part aboriginal The grim alternatives before them are those that most white Australians do not even know about, let alone have to face.The brawling squalor of the camp, the neat ghetto of the Reserve, a bottle of conto and quick love in the sandhills Noonah is happy to flop back, Trilby has the fire to drive her Two sisters, Noonah and Trilby, are young, beautiful and part aboriginal The grim alternatives before them are those that most wh...
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Friday, 24 January 2014
The Eye of the Sheep By Sofie Laguna
| Title | : | The Eye of the Sheep |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 308 |
Ned was beside me, his messages running easily through him, with space between each one, coming through him like water He was the go between, going between the animal kingdom and this one I watched the waves as they rolled and crashed towards us, one after another, never stopping, always changing I knew what was making them come, I had been there and I would always kno Ned was beside me, his messages running easily through him, with space between each one, coming through him like water He was...
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Thursday, 17 October 2013
Other People's Words By Hilary McPhee
| Title | : | Other People's Words |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0330491555 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 |
This is the story of 15 years in which a small independent company was a seminal force in Australian publishing From McPhee Gribble came many new writers, including Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Drusilla Modjeska, new perspectives on Australian life and history, new stories and fleetingly, the hope that an Australian company could become a fully fledged player in the intern This is the story of 15 years in which a small independent company was a seminal force in Australian publishing From McPhee Gribble came ...
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Saturday, 22 June 2013
Cloudstreet By Tim Winton
| Title | : | Cloudstreet |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0743234413 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 426 |
Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton s masterful family saga is both a paean to working class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart s capacity for sorrow, joy, and endless gradations in between An award winning work, Cloudstreet exemplifies the brilliant ability of fiction to captivate and inspire
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Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton s masterful family saga is both a paean to working class Australians and an unflinching exa...3.5
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Thursday, 3 January 2013
The Harp in the South By Ruth Park
| Title | : | The Harp in the South |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 225 |
Ruth Park s classic novel Harp in the South is one of Australia s greatest novels Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy.Filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry, this Australian classic will take Ruth Park s classic novel Harp in the South is one of Australia s greatest novels Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in S...
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