The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature by William H. Wilde et al
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This revised and expanded reference work provides a comprehensive account of Australian writing from 1788 to 1993. Details of a new generation of playwrights, poets and novelists have been added to the volume, along with reviews of the development of multiculturalism and Aboriginal writing.
Strange Country : Travels in a Very Different Australia by Mark Dapin
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"This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failures. It is about heroes and legends, illusions, delusions and hope, and one or two men with shit for brains ...Show more
The Water Dreamers : The Remarkable History of our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
The story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped by the scarcity of water and by the need to fill the imagined silence of the continent with the sounds of civilisation. It's the story of who we are today as much as a history of how the country grew. From the moment the First ...Show more
The Ern Malley Affair by Michael Heyward
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"Dear Sir, When I was going through my bother s things after his death, I found some poetry he had written. I am no judge of it myself ' In 1943, Max Harris, editor of the literary journal Angry Penguins, received a letter containing a collection of poetry which he read with mounting excitement. As Harr ...Show more
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE : THE HISTORY AND GHOSTS OF THE FREMANTLE LUNATIC ASYLUM by JANE HALL
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DROUGHT, DUST AND DELUGE : A CENTURY OF CLIMATE EXTREMES IN AUSTRALIA
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