The Children’s Bach
Athena and Dexter lead an enclosed family life, innocent of fashion and bound towards a disturbed …
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Athena and Dexter lead an enclosed family life, innocent of fashion and bound towards a disturbed …
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When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie′s tribe and white …
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John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland. The Guinness Book of …
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M. J. Hyland was born in London to Irish parents in 1968 and spent her early childhood in Dublin. She studied English and law at the University of Melbourne, Australia and worked as a lawyer for several years. Her first novel, How the Light Gets In (…
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Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Its portrait of life in the …
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Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history …
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Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of …
Xavier Herbert was born in Port Hedland, WA, in 1901. He was educated there and in Fremantle, qualifying as a pharmacist. After World War I he travelled in Australia, reaching Darwin in 1927. There he worked as a railway fettler and visited the South…
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"In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade." Thus begins Arnold Zable’s …
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Arnold Zable was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and grew up in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton. He has traveled and lived in the USA, India, Papua New Guinea, Europe, Southeast Asia and China, and now lives in Melbourne with his wife and son…
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