Australian Classics
Australian Classics
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
In her acclaimed Classics: Books for Life Jane Gleeson-White made a heartfelt call to 'read for life', and an invaluable literary excavation into our reading past to rediscover the great masterpieces that move and inspir... Buy or find out more →
The Tree Of Man
$27.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
At the turn of the century Stan Parker takes a wife and makes a home as a small farmer in the wilderness of Australia. Amy bears his children and time brings him a procession of ordinary events - achievements, disappoint... Buy or find out more →
Fortunes Of Richard Mahony
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Set in Australia during the gold-mining boom, this remarkable trilogy is one of the classics of Australian literature. Henry Handel Richardson's great literary achievement, comprising the novels Australia Felix, The Way ... Buy or find out more →
Power Without Glory
$23.95 – Paperback book / Mandarin
In the history of Australian literature few books have been so controversial than Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory.This is a tale of corruption stretching from street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in ... Buy or find out more →
Capricornia
$24.95 – Paperback book / Angus & Robertson
The book that inspired Baz Luhrmann's Australia, the sweeping classic of outback Australia. A true Australian classic - now available in audio for the first time. Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story o... Buy or find out more →
My Brother Jack
$22.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
"You're growing up to be a real bloody little wowser," he would say with an angry contempt, and I would blush to the roots of my hair, for in Jack's bawdy and colourful lexicon "wowser" was the most despicable form of hu... Buy or find out more →
My Brilliant Career
$22.95 – Paperback book / Broadview Press
Written by a teenager living in the Australian bush in the 1890s and originally published in 1901, Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career is a candid representation of the aspirations and frustrations of a young woman cons... Buy or find out more →
For The Term Of His Natural Life
$19.95 – Paperback book / New Holland Pub
First published in 1874, a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper. Buy or find out more →
Merry Go Round In The Sea
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join th... Buy or find out more →
Picnic At Hanging Rock
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
On St Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return... Buy or find out more →