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Brumby Innes

'I consider Brumby Innes to be in a class by itself', wrote theatre director Gregan McMahon in 1927…

Year: Tertiary Author: Katharine Susannah Prichard Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1940

The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts – …

Year: Tertiary Author: Dorothy Hewett Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1972

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'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all . . . deep down in him, …

Year: Tertiary Author: Henry Handel Richardson Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing Published year: 1917

In The Pea-pickers, a novel based on Eve Langley's own experiences, Steve and Blue are two girls who…

Year: Tertiary Author: Eve Langley Publisher: Angus & Robertson Published year: 1942

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An Australian classic, first published in 1903. Described by its author as of 'temper democratic; …

Year: Tertiary Author: Joseph Furphy Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing Published year: 1903

This masterpiece of Australian fiction was written by Randolph Stow when he was just twenty-two. It …

Year: Tertiary Author: Randolph Stow Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1958

Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and…

Year: Tertiary Author: Patrick White Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1957

Gig Ryan’s poems have exerted an influence over two generations of writers and readers since the …

Year: Tertiary Author: Gig Ryan Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2011

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Look Who's Morphing is a collection of bizarre, funny, often menacing fictions in which, along with…

Year: Tertiary Author: Tom Cho Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2009

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'Sheila Rowbotham has written that the political expression of personal experience lies within the …

Year: Tertiary Author: Kate Jennings Publisher: Outback Press Published year: 1975