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My Sister Sif by Ruth Park
Category: Children's Classics | 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
One Crowded Hour: Neil Davis - Combat Cameraman (1934-85) POD by Tim Bowden
Category: Military | Series: Australian Classics
First published in 1987, it remains a must-read for aspiring photographers, cinematographers, journalists and war buffs. For over twenty years, from the early 1960s, Neil Davis brought enduring images of the full horror of modern war directly from the battlefront to the world's television screens. Davis ...Show more
Picnic At Hanging Rock - Penguin Australian Classics by Joan Lindsay
Category: Classics | 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)
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
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
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
'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
Rabbit-Proof Fence by Larissa Behrendt
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Three Aboriginal girls have been forcibly removed from their outback families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants, as part of official government policy. They escape and begin a 1500-mile journey home using a rabbit-proof fence as a guide, with authorities chasing them all the way. Adapted fro m ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics
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.
Taronga (Australian Children's Classics) by Victor Kelleher
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
"The great dome of the sky, black, star-sprinkled, arched above him, appearing at that moment so limitless, so vast and free, that the fences and cages of Taronga were dwarfed, reduced to the point where they barely seemed to exist." Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving ...Show more
The Battlers by Kylie Tennant
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
The flowers flared up from the ground unconquerable. The unrepentant gaiety of the weed, the burning blues and crimsons, set the hills glowing. 'It's a plant that's struck it lucky,' the Stray said thoughtfully. 'It hasn't got no right, but it's there.' The Battlers is the story of Snow, a drifter and w ...Show more
The Boat - Penguin Australian Classics by Nam Le
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war. Each st ...Show more
The Bodysurfers - Penguin Australian Classics by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy se ...Show more
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Classics Series
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. 'You've never been in control, until now; you've never, before, had exactly what you want...The lights turned off. A touch that's gentle, slow, provocative, that builds you up, that makes you ...Show more