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Behind Bamboo by Rohan Rivett
$10.00 AUD
$16.95 (41% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian War Classics Ser.
Foreword by Weary Dunlop.The bestselling memoir of life as an Australian POW on the notorious Thai-Burma railway.Rohan Rivett was a journalist in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese in 1942. He escaped south - across the treacherous Bangka Strait - to Indonesia, but was soon captured and became just ...Show more
Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
$15.00 AUD
$17.95 (16% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
Bush Studies, written during the 1890s, was first published to considerable critical acclaim. These powerful and haunting stories of pioneering Australia give voice to the forgotten women of those times. the harsh lives of pioneer women in the Australian bush are difficult to imagine today. Barbara Bayn ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
For Love Alone by CHRISTINA STEAD
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
For Love Alone is the story of the intelligent and determined Teresa Hawkins, who believes in passionate love and yearns to experience it. Superbly evoking life in Sydney and London in the 1930s, For Love Alone is the story of the intelligent and determined Teresa Hawkins, who believes in passionate lo ...Show more
Jonah by Louis Stone
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
the evocative portrayal of Sydney and her colourful cast of characters during the turn-of-the-century larrikin days. A captivating love story and a fascinating account of the marauding larrikin gangs of the early 1900s,Jonah was also the first great novel of Sydney. First published in 1911, it tells of ...Show more
Lasseter's Last Ride by Ion L. Idriess
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
Mulga Bills Bicycle 50th Anniversary HB Edition by Deborah Niland (Illustrator); Kilmeny Niland (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Celebrating 50 years in print, this is a new edition of the classic children's poem by Australia's favourite poet, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson. Mulga Bill's Bicycle was written by Banjo Paterson in 1896. It was written at a time when cycling was a relatively new and popular social activity. Cycles were ridden ...Show more
Poor Man's Orange by Ruth Park
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
It's the early 50s. The Darcy family have made a home for themselves in Surrey Hills, NSW. The elder daughter, Rosie, is pregnant with her second child to her husband Charlie and Rosie's sister, Dolour, finds comfort in doting over her niece Moira. Father Hughie and Mumma live downstairs, as irrepressib ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney Bulletin' in 1892 when they decided to have a duel of poetry. The idea was to increase the number of poems they could sell to the paper. It began in fun but later became bitter. Paterson wrote many poems and stories about his travels in the Out ...Show more
The Naked Island by Russell Braddon
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian War Classics Ser.
Russell Braddon wrote The Naked Island in 1950. By 1968 it had been reprinted eleven times and sold one million copies in Britain alone. As the author states, 'It was written to tell the world what sort of people the Japanese can be. It was written to explain what they did in the war and what they might ...Show more
The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
First published in 1941, Eleanor Dark's classic novel of the early settlement of Australia is a story of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all it is the story of conflict: between the Aborigines and the white settlers. In this dramatic novel, a large cast of characters, historical and fictional, black ...Show more
Voyage to Disaster by Henrietta Drake-Brockman
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian Classics Ser.