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Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - Penguin Australian Classics by Tim Winton
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Category: Australiana | 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
Fortunate Life - Penguin Australian Classics (HB) by A. B. Facey
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Category: Biographies | 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
Monkey Grip - Penguin Australian Classics by Helen Garner
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. Nora falls in love with Javo the junkie, and together they try to make sense of their lives and the choices they have made. But caught in an increasingly ambiguous relationship, they are unable to let go - and the ...Show more
The Bodysurfers - Penguin Australian Classics by Robert Drewe
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy se ...Show more
The Tall Man - Penguin Australian Classics by Chloe Hooper
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Category: True Crime | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest ...Show more
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