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Inland Inland
Gerald Murnane
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920899028

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

A$26.95

 
Jimmy Brockett Jimmy Brockett
Dal Stivens
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897093

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

A$29.95

 
Charco Harbour Charco Harbour
Godfrey Blunden
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897024

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

A$34.95

 
Foveaux Foveaux
Kylie Tennant
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897062

Foveaux was Kyle Tennant's second novel and was drawn from her experiences living in the then disease-ridden slum...

A$34.95

 
Quintus Servinton Quintus Servinton
Henry Savery
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897046

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

A$36.94

 
The Estuary The Estuary
Georgia Savage
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9780975086094

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

A$26.95

 
Count Your Dead Count Your Dead
John Rowe
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9780975086049

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

A$26.95

 
The Pioneers The Pioneers
Katherine Susannah Prichard
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897055

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

A$29.95

 
The Inheritors The Inheritors
Brian Penton
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9780975086018

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

A$37.95

 
Moondyne: a story of life in Western Australia Moondyne: a story of life in Western Australia
John Boyle O'Reilly
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897031

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

A$30.95

 
Landscape with Landscape Landscape with Landscape
Gerald Murnane
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897123

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

A$28.95

 
The Retreat of Radiance The Retreat of Radiance
Ian Moffitt
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9780975086070

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

A$31.95

 
Trap Trap
Peter Mathers
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897116

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

A$31.95

 
The Smiling Buddha The Smiling Buddha
Margaret Jones
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9780975086087

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

A$30.95

 
The Glass Canoe The Glass Canoe
David Ireland
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897143

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

A$29.95

 
Seven Emus Seven Emus
Xavier Herbert
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9780975086032

Bronco Jones is the owner of Seven Emus station and lives there with his wife Possum and their family. When Appleby Gaunt, k...

A$25.96

 
The Little Company The Little Company
Eleanor Dark
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9780975086001

First published in 1945 and written during the final years of World War II, The Little Company's complex narrative st...

A$31.95

 
Lantana Lane Lantana Lane
Eleanor Dark
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897000

Whilst Eleanor Dark lived most of her life in Katoomba at Varuna, in 1951 she and husband Eric went to Queensland, escaping ...

A$27.95

 
The Impersonators The Impersonators
Jessica Anderson
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9780975086056

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

A$29.95

 
Letters to Live Poets Letters to Live Poets
Bruce Beaver
Classic Australian Works
ISBN: 9781920897109

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

A$23.95