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Australian Classics
Jane Gleeson-White

$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... More »

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The Tree Of Man
Patrick White

$27.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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Fortunes Of Richard Mahony
Richardson Henry Handel

$29.95 (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 ... More »

Power Without Glory
Frank Hardy

$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 ... More »


Capricornia
Xavier Herbert

$24.95 (Paperback book / Angus & Robertson )

The epic novel of race relations set in Australia's top end.

First published to controversy and acclaim in 1938, Xavier Herbert's first novel brings to life a cast of memorable characters in an epic spanning fifty years.... More »

My Brother Jack
George Johnston

$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... More »


Harp In The South Novels
Ruth Park

$30.00 (Paperback book / Penguin )

Long favourites with generations of Australian readers, Ruth Park's classic Harp in the South novels have at last been brought together in one volume. The saga of the Darcy family has its beginnings in the dusty outback.... More »

My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin

$19.95 (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... More »


For The Term Of His Natural Life
Marcus Clarke

$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. More »

Merry Go Round In The Sea
Randolph Stow

$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... More »


Picnic At Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay

$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... More »

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