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• 1 hardcover copy of Henry Lawson 'While the Billy Boils': The ...

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Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and m...

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Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up ...

Lucinda Brayford (1946) chronicles three generations of an Anglo-Australian family around the turn of the twentieth c...

A timeless narrative of suspense and intrigue, Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) is the original Au...

Bush Studies (1902) is a collection of short stories which explore the dark side of the Australian bush experience: l...

Tales of the Early Days (1894) is a collection of historical tales primarily concerned with the social abuses of the ...

The Workingman's Paradise is set in the context of the defeat of the shearer's and maritime strikes of the early 1890...

The Man from Snowy River and other Verses was published in 1895 and contains many of Paterson's most famous works, in...

Tales of the Austral Tropics (1894) is a collection of short stories published in the Sydney Bulletin in the 1890s. ...

Oh Lucky Country (Paese fortunato) uses first-person point of view to inflate migrant oppression to such absurdist pr...

Inland (1989) is a dispersed, sprawling narrative, a set of texts interlocked by a myriad of narratives, a work that ...

Bush Studies (1902) is a collection of short stories which explore the dark side of the Australian bush experience: l...

The Moods of Ginger Mick is a collection of poems about Ginger Mick, the larrikin hero of Gallipoli. On its release ...

Jimmy Brockett (1951) is an example of that rare species, the Australian political novel. This story of political cor...

An autobiographical novel, Maurice Guest is set in the musical culture of 1890s Leipzig, where Richardson was a stude...

Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901) is a collection of many of Lawson's most celebrated classic Australian short stories....

Triangles of Life and Other Stories contains 11 short stories from Henry Lawson, as well as the eponymous Triangles...

From Henry Lawson's Foreword to The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke:

The Sentimental Bloke, while running thro...

Doreen, the third C.J. Dennis publication using his "Sentimental Bloke" characters, was first published by in October...

The Glugs of Gosh is a political satire about the inhabitants of Gosh, a world that seems to be suspiciously full of ...

Charco Harbour is the story of Captain James Cook's first Pacific voyage in 1768, a journey into a world to which...

Australia's convict past is never far away in Tasmania, where elegant stone bridges, the Georgian warehouses of Salamanc...

The Estuary is Georgia Savage's third novel. Narrated in the first person by Vinnie, a young girl who falls in lo...

Count Your Dead (1968) is a powerful indictment of US involvement in the war in Vietnam. The recounts of manoeuvres a...

The Pioneers won the Hodder and Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia in 1915, giving its author one ...

In the Preface to Inheritors, Brian Penton says the characters are fictional, and then comments that this is not to s...

Originally serialised in The Pilot as Moondyne Joe in 1878, and subsequently reprinted in book form, this is t...

The titles of this collection of six loosely connected stories, Landscape with Freckled Woman, Sipping the Essence, The Batt...

Quinn lives alone, scarred by personal tragedy and recollections of a wartime massacre near a remote monastery in China, the...

Trap (1966) won the Miles Franklin Literary Award when it was published. Its comic and satiric elements and use of se...

The Americans have engineered a coup in Khamla, north of Thailand. Prince Soumidath has been deposed. He can return only und...

The Glass Canoe (1976) is the pub where the male workers aggressively shelter from their wives, their lives and their...

The Impersonators portrays the breakdown of family relationships and the endurance of love in a materialistic age sen...

Letters to Live Poets (1969) is a series of confessional poems arranged as a livre compose. It is a major work of Aus...

A Voyage to Botany Bay was first published in London in 1795. The sequel, A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New ...

Widely and positively reviewed at the time of publication in 1903, Ada Cambridge's incisive and moving autobiography, Thirty...

After some time in Western Australia and New Zealand Lawson returned to Sydney in 1898 and published with Angus and Robertso...

After some time in Western Australia and New Zealand Lawson returned to Sydney in 1898 and published with Angus and Robertso...

Botany Bay contains Lang's most significant Australian work and was first published in 1853 and includes a number...

Watkin TENCH (c. 1758-1833) served as a captain of marines on one of the vessels of the First Fleet, and wrote a first hand ...

Watkin TENCH (c. 1758-1833) served as a captain of marines on one of the vessels of the First Fleet, and wrote a first hand ...

Quong Tart (Mei Guangda, 1850-1903) was born in Guangdong province and migrated with his uncle to Australia in 1859. After w...

Stone's representations of city life broke new ground. Jonah was his most successful novel, published in London in 19...

Spence's Autobiography is a record of a fascinating life, from childhood in Scotland, emigration to South Australia, her car...

Around half of Praed's novels have Australian settings. Policy and Passion is generally viewed as her best work and d...

Saltbush Bill J.P. and Other Verses was published in 1917 and contains the national song "Waltzing Matilda", as well ...

The Art of Living in Australia was first published in 1893 and urged the value of Mediterranean eating and drinking ...

Martin's novels include An Australian Girl (1890) and The Silent Sea (1892). The Incredible Journey, he...

Here's Another was published in 1932 and consists of comic articles selected from Lower's regular newspaper contribut...

Published when Lower was only 27, Here's Luck was described as 'Australia's funniest book'. Narrated by Jack Gud...

While the Billy Boils was published in 1896 and is considered amongst the best of Lawson's prose collections. It...

After some time in Western Australia and New Zealand Lawson returned to Sydney in 1898 and published with Angus and Robertso...

After some time in Western Australia and New Zealand Lawson returned to Sydney in 1898 and published with Angus and Robertso...

Botany Bay contains Lang's most significant Australian work and was first published in 1853. It includes a number...

Such is Life is Furphy's great novel first published in 1903, and signalled the end of the "colonial romance" by its ...

Below and On Top was published in 1898 and is a collection of short stories about mining and life in the bush. It co...

A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 is an account of Clacy's visit with her brother to the Vi...

Spinifex and Sand is Carnegie's celebrated journal of exploration following several years' expeditions through the mo...

The Eureka Stockade is Carboni's eccentric yet shrewd account of the events leading up to and beyond the miners' revo...

The Perversity of Human Nature was originally published in 1887.

Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) was born in Englan...

Boldrewood's most significant work was Robbery Under Arms published in serial form in the Sydney Mail 1882-3, ...

Female Immigration Considered was published in 1842 and recounts for her first year's activities in the Female Immigr...

Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales in the Year 1813 was first published in...