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Callie by Ruth Park
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two favourites in one volume. Callie's Castle introduces Callie Cameron, who is unhappy with her friend Frances, her family and, well, life. With her brothers and sister running riot through her bedroom, reading her diary and ruining her treasures, she's desperate for a space to call her own. Even the p ...Show more
Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics by Ruth Park
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This first volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression.She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journalism and began a rel ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics by Ruth Park
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to continue her work as a journalist, newly married to D'Arcy Niland. Determined to earn their living as writers, they submitted story outlines to radio stations, idea for articles to newspapers and accepted whatever freelance jobs came their way. The Har ...Show more
Home Before Dark by Ruth Park
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Who was Les Darcy? How did the young boxer become one of Australia's most revered sporting icons? Can the real person be found behind the myths and misinformation that have accumulated since his birth in 1895? Ruth Park and Rafe Champion have brought alive this high-spirited young champion, showing how ...Show more
My Sister Sif by Ruth Park
$19.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: UQP Australian Classics Ser.
"Erika Magnus is a 14-year-old stirrer with a sky high IQ and complete confidence that she knows best. Her sister Sif may be seventeen, but Erika believes she has to be looked after and guided aright. So, when Sif longs to return home to the island of Rongo, a green dab in the middle of the Pacific ocea ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: very good
The game is called Beatie Bow, and the kids play it for the thrill of giving themselves a scare. It's Beatie Bow, risen from the dead When Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly changes from a harmless little scare to an extraordinary adventure, as she is transported to a place that is strangely familiar ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our countr ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
$12.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The game is called Beatie Bow, and the kids play it for the thrill of giving themselves a scare. It's Beatie Bow, risen from the dead When Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly changes from a harmless little scare to an extraordinary adventure, as she is transported to a place that is strangely familiar ...Show more
Ruth Park's Sydney by Ruth Park
$22.00 AUD
Category: Travel
B format reprint of the classic guide to Sydney Take a stroll through Sydney in the company of one of Australia's most loved writers, who will entertain you with information, ironic comment, and a hundred diverting tales of its past and present. Ruth Park's impressionistic history of Sydney, recently up ...Show more
Swords and Crowns and Rings: Text Classics by Ruth Park
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Jackie Hanna, born with dwarfism, and Cushie Moy, the girl next door, share an innocent love--a love that will be censured, but will persevere. This is the story of the triumph of a special kind of courage. Ruth Park's Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the Great Depression. ...Show more
The Harp In The South - Penguin Australian Classics by Ruth Park
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is scarce and life is not easy. Crammed together within the thin walls of Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street are the Darcy family: Mumma, loving and softhearted; Hughie, her drunken husband; pipe-smoking Grandma; ...Show more
The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This title is a nostalgic portrait of the eventful family life of the Darcys of Plymouth Street, a Sydney slum in Surry Hills. It concerns Rosie Darcy, and her first and last loves amid the brothels, the razor gangs, the tenements and the grog shops.