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Islands of Angry Ghosts: The Story of Batavia, Australia's Bloodiest Mutiny by Hugh Edwards
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
New edition. In 1629 the Dutch East India merchantman, the Batavia was wrecked off the coast of West Australia while on a voyage to Indonesia. What followed this disaster is a harrowing tale of desertion, betrayal and murder. This updated edition includes new photographs. A replica of the Batavia is in ...Show more
Jedda by Jane Mills
$16.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Filmed in 1955, Jedda was the first Australian feature film to use Aboriginal actors in lead roles, the first to be filmed in colour and the first to be shown at the Cannes film festival. It tells the tragic story of a young Aboriginal girl of the Arunte tribe, adopted by a white woman, Sarah McCann, as ...Show more
Looking for Alibrandi Puffin Classic by Melina Marchetta
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Australian Children's Classics
For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it's her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn't be any stricter--but that doesn't seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world valu ...Show more
Monkey Grip - Penguin Australian Classics by Helen Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. Nora falls in love with Javo the junkie, and together they try to make sense of their lives and the choices they have made. But caught in an increasingly ambiguous relationship, they are unable to let go - and the ...Show more
My Brilliant Career/My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore, on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to ...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
Oh Lucky Country by Rosa Cappiello
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics Library
Oh Lucky Country (Paese Fortunato) uses first-person point of view to inflate migrant oppression to such absurdist proportions that its swirling narrative boils over into a maelstrom, washing away all migrant clichs. It is a witty, tragi-comic view of Australian society, culture and prejudice.
Picnic At Hanging Rock - Penguin Australian Classics by Joan Lindsay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private school go on an excursion to the isolated Hanging Rock, deep in the Australian bush. The excursion ends in tragedy when four girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock. Only one girl returns, with no memory of what has become ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australian Children's Classics) by Joan Lindsay; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES). 'Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling...' St Valentine's Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of sc ...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
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
Short excerpt: Without doubt she was the worst of the seven probably because she was the cleverest. Her brilliant inventive powers plunged them all into ceaseless scrapes.