The Harp in the South By Ruth Park

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Title	:	The Harp in the South
Author	:	Ruth Park
ISBN	:	0140008535
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	251

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Since it was first published in 1948, this compassionate novel has become a favourite with generations of Australian readers.The Harp in the South is a nostalgic and moving portrait of the eventful family life of the Darcys of Number Twelve and a Half Plymouth Street in Surry Hills, a Sydney slum There grow the bitter sweet first and last loves of Roie Darcy, who becomes Since it was first published in 1948, this com More...

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In the Wet By Nevil Shute

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Title	:	In the Wet
Author	:	Nevil Shute
ISBN	:	1842322540
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	344

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Originally published in 1953, IN THE WET is Nevil Shute s speculative glance into the future of the British Empire An elderly clergyman stationed in the Australian bush is called to the bedside of a dying derelict In his delirium Stevie tells a story of England in 1983 through the medium of a squadron air pilot in the service of Queen Elizabeth II. More...

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Mateship With Birds By Carrie Tiffany

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Title	:	Mateship With Birds
Author	:	Carrie Tiffany
ISBN	:	1447219864
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	208

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Mateship n the quality or state of being a mate esp fellowshipOn the outskirts of a country town in the early 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a raucous family of kookaburras roosting next to his dairy As Harry observes the birds through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song, his neighbour, Betty, has her own set of binoculars trai Mateship n the quality or state of being a mate esp fellowshipOn the outskirts of a coun More...

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The Cattle King By Ion L. Idriess

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Title	:	The Cattle King
Author	:	Ion L. Idriess
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	282

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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 Above all, Kidman created a mighty cattle empire of than a hundred stations, fighting droughts, bushfires, floods and plagues of vermin to do so His enterprise and courag At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket H More...

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Power Trip (Quarterly Essay #38) By David Marr

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Title	:	Power Trip (Quarterly Essay #38)
Author	:	David Marr
ISBN	:	1863954775
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	138

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Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, prime minister In Eumundi, where Rudd was born, David Marr investigates the formative tragedy of his life the death of his father and what came after He tracks the transformation of a dreamy kid into an implacably determined youth, already set on the prime ministership He examines Rudd s years as Wayne Goss s right hand man in Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, prime minister In Eumundi, where Rudd was bor More...

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Rabbit-Proof Fence By Doris Pilkington

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Title	:	Rabbit-Proof Fence
Author	:	Doris Pilkington
ISBN	:	0786887842
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	135

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The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated In Rabbit Proof Fence, award winning author Doris Pilkington traces the captiv The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian d More...

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Red Dog By Louis de Bernières

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Title	:	Red Dog
Author	:	Louis de Bernières
ISBN	:	0099429047
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	119

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In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner Karratha is a mining town a long way further north The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never ending bush I In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Austral More...

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The Combinations By Louis Armand

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Title	:	The Combinations
Author	:	Louis Armand
ISBN	:	9780957121
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	888

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In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand s The Combinations is a work of attempted fiction that combines the beauty intellectual exertion that is chess with the panorama of futility chaos that is Prague a.k.a Golem City , across the 20th century and before after Golem City, the ship of fools boarded by the famed D s e.g John and K s e In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand s The Combinations is a work of attempted fiction More...

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La mia Australia By Sally Morgan

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Title	:	La mia Australia
Author	:	Sally Morgan
ISBN	:	8845245845
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	504

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Sally Morgan racconta la propria vicenda autobiografica E con ingenua e salutare autenticit , senz ombra di vanit , rivendica alle proprie esemplari vicessitudini il patrimonio della memoria obliata di un popolo Narra ci che le successo, proprio a lei, alla madre, alla nonna, in Australia in questo secolo E l effetto sconvolgente Nadia Fusini Ed molto quello ch Sally Morgan racconta la propria vicenda autobiografica E con ingenua e salutare autenticit , se More...

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Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class By Judith Brett

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Title	:	Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class
Author	:	Judith Brett
ISBN	:	0521536340
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	274

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Judith Brett, award winning author and well known Australian political scientist, provides the first complete history of the Australian liberal tradition, as well as of the Liberal Party from the second half of the twentieth century The Liberal Party of Australia was late to form in 1945, but the traditions and ideals upon which it is founded have been central to Australi Judith Brett, award winning author and well known Australian political scientist, pro More...

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Unfinished Business By David Love

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Title	:	Unfinished Business
Author	:	David Love
ISBN	:	1921372192
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	272

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Penned by a veteran financial observer, this biography explores the story of Paul Keating s resolve to reinvent the Australian economy From floating the Australian dollar and liberating finance from its regulatory shackles to introducing a universal superannuation scheme, this survey charts the astounding growth Keating achieved in the value of the national economy and in Penned by a veteran financial observer, this biography explores the story of Paul Keating s resolve to reinvent the Australia More...

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The Light On The Hill By Ross McMullin

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Title	:	The Light On The Hill
Author	:	Ross McMullin
ISBN	:	019554966X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	560

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With total access to ALP and national archives, McMullin has produced a frank and authoritative record of the influence and development of all seven Labor parties namely those in the six states and the Federal Labor Party, which formed the first labor government soon after Australia became a nation in 1901 The book concentrates on the achievements of the Governments of With total access to ALP and national archives, McMullin has produced a frank and authoritative record of the influence and deve More...

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Bring Larks and Heroes By Thomas Keneally

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Title	:	Bring Larks and Heroes
Author	:	Thomas Keneally
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	247

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This outstanding novel is set in a remote British penal colony, late in the 1790s Thomas Keneally s evocative writing gives us searing insight into the sun parched settlements of hungry transports and corruptive soldiers But this is not an historical novel in the usual sense It is the story of a man, Corporal Phelim Halloran, and of the demands made on him by his g This outstanding novel is set in a remote British penal colony, late in the 1790s Thomas Ken More...

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The Far Country By Nevil Shute

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Title	:	The Far Country
Author	:	Nevil Shute
ISBN	:	1842322516
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	362

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Jennifer fled the drab monotony of post war London for Australia, and feels like she has come home When she meets Carl, she has every reason to stay But the two come from different worlds, and need work to build a life together in a pioneer country. More...

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Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1) By Ethel Turner

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Title	:	Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1)
Author	:	Ethel Turner
ISBN	:	1428041451
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	152

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19th century Australia Captain Woolcot, having lost his wife tragically young, remarried a much younger young woman to provide his six children with a new mother Together, they had another child, making seven The Captain felt it was necessary to run the family with army discipline, but his rules and regulations were no match for the fun loving children, led by the redou 19th century Australia Captain Woolcot, having lost his wife tragically young, remarrie More...

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The Sweet Spot By Peter Hartcher

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Title	:	The Sweet Spot
Author	:	Peter Hartcher
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	304

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This book will change the way you think about your countryAustralians now officially have the best living conditions in the world Our country is both fair and free and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past twenty years So how did it happen and why don t we care In The Sweet Spot Peter Hartcher takes readers on a vastly entertaining and th This book will change the way you think about your countryAustralians now officially have the best living conditions in the world O More...

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Requiem for a Wren By Nevil Shute

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Title	:	Requiem for a Wren
Author	:	Nevil Shute
ISBN	:	1842322869
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	285

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Requiem for a Wren U.S title The Breaking Wave is one of Nevil Shute s most poignant and psychologically suspenseful novels, set in the years just after World War II.Sidelined by a wartime injury, fighter pilot Alan Duncan reluctantly returns to his parents remote sheep station in Australia to take the place of his brother Bill, who died a hero in the war But his home Requiem for a Wren U.S titl More...

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