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Banjo Paterson Complete Poems by Banjo Paterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: A&R Classics
When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'The Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. Today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favou ...Show more
Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
In the sequel to his semi-autobiographical novel My Brother Jack, George Johnston concludes his Meredith trilogy in this brilliantly evocative, single volume of books two and three: Clean Straw for Nothing (winner of the Miles Franklin Award) and A Cartload of Clay. Set against the backdrop of a Greek ...Show more
Coonardoo by Katherine Prichard
$4.99 AUD
$14.99 (66% off)
Category: Sale | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
A tough, uncompromising novel about the difficult love between a white man and a black woman. Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo a ...Show more
Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in t ...Show more
Henry Lawson Poems by Henry Lawson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
First published in 1979, this edition includes 30 new selections, including highly significant poems addressed to his lost love, Hannah Thorburn, and some for young children.
Here's Luck by Lennie Lower
$14.99 AUD
Category: Sale | Series: A&R Classics
Still considered one of Australia's funniest books ever, Here's Luck is Lennie Lower's most inspired lunacy. Here's Luck, Lennie Lower's wild and uproarious masterpiece, is set in Sydney during the early depression years and follows the hilarious exploits of its hero and narrator, Jack Gudgeon. Deserted ...Show more
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: A&R Classics
'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAESTRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one ...Show more
No Barrier by Eleanor Dark
$14.99 AUD
Category: Sale | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Book three of The Timeless Land trilogy, Eleanor Dark's best known work, continues the story of colonial Sydney up to the crossing of the Blue Mountains. The story of the Mannion family continues after the Bligh rebellion. As the young Mannions grow to maturity, so too the settlement at Sydney Cove deve ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
Storm Of Time by Eleanor Dark
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Book two of The Timeless Land trilogy, The Storm of Time continues Eleanor Dark's sweeping saga of colonial Sydney under governors Hunter, King and Bligh. Sydney Cove, 1799, and three years since Governor Phillip departed. Against a background of continuing convict settlement, hunger, rebellion and the ...Show more
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. A woman finds her voice and leaves behind a book of lessons. It is the story of her secret self. On honeymoon, in the heat and shadows of sultry Marrakech, a conventional young wife makes a s ...Show more
The Cattle King by Ion L Idriess
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. This book is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King.