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Ash Road: Text Classics by Ivan Southall
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste of independence, camping, just the three of them. When they accidentally light a bushfire no one would have guessed how far it would go. All along Ash Road fathers go off to fight the fires and mothers he ...Show more
Bush Studies: Text Classics by Barbara Baynton
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Category: YOUNG ADULT FICTION | Series: Text Classics
Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism - for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and ...Show more
Death in Brunswick (Text Classics) by Boyd Oxlade
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Introduced by Shane Maloney Down on his luck and hard up for cash, Carl works in the kitchen of a seedy rock 'n' roll joint in ethnically diverse Brunswick. The bouncers and bosses terrify him, he's desperately in love with a much younger Greek waitress, and to make matters worse his mother has come to ...Show more
I Own the Racecourse!: Text Classics by Patricia Wrightson
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Category: MIDDLE FICTION | Series: Text Classics
Andy Hoddel was different from other boys. He never really understood the game they played, in which they 'owned' the factories, the library and the police station in their town, but he longed to tell them he owned something too. Then he met an old tramp and paid him three dollars for Beecham Park Racec ...Show more
The Delinquents - Text Classics by Creina Rohan
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Category: YOUNG ADULT FICTION | Series: Text Classics
Brownie and Lola are young and in love. But the odds - not to mention their mothers, the cops, welfare officers and the stifling conventions of 1950s Brisbane - are against them. When they are forced to face adult responsibilities, will they rise to the challenge, or fall apart? The Delinquents, Criena ...Show more
They Found a Cave: Text Classics by Nan Chauncy
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Four English orphans - Cherry, Nigel, Brick and Nippy - migrate to Tasmania, to the care of their Aunt Jandie on her farm outside Hobart. Their arrival is greeted with enthusiasm by young farm boy Tas, and weeks of exploration and good times follow before Aunt Jandie goes to hospital, leaving the childr ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
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