Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dare Me! The Life and Work of Gerald Glaskin Dare Me! The Life and Work of Gerald Glaskin John Burbidge xx, 329 pages ; 23 cm OL17051813W
Quill Quill Neal Drinnan With his first two novels, Neal Drinnan quickly established a reputation as an exciting and compelling writer with a gift for bringing to vivid life some offiction's most unusual characters. *Quill* … OL1921481W
A first place A first place David Malouf A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. P… OL23164875W
Land's edge Land's edge Tim Winton Tim Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore - about diving, dunes, beachcombing - and the sense of being on the precarious, wondrous edge of things that ha… OL24277178W
Where's the morning gone? Where's the morning gone? Barney Roberts Barney Roberts has lived all his life where his parents lived most of theirs - on a farm in northern Tasmania. He calls up this small world in his writing._ OL24308079W
Leicester Leicester Francis William Lauderdale Adams An experimental fin de siecle novel, with the protagonist (Leicester) being a young man at boarding school, then finding his vocation as a writer, dealing with issues of social class and sexuality. … OL2540883W
Literary Melbourne Literary Melbourne Stephen Grimwade xvii, 254 p. : 19 cm OL33361951W
The Oxford companion to Australian literature The Oxford companion to Australian literature Wilde, W. H. A comprehensive account of Australian writing from the first settlement in 1788 to the early 1980s. OL3386176W
A Pound of Paper A Pound of Paper Baxter, John In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleve… OL46968W
Diary of a Bad Year Diary of a Bad Year J. M. Coetzee An utterly contemporary and deeply thought-provoking novel which addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies around the world. An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australi… OL500440W
Perils of the Studio Perils of the Studio Alex Taylor "Focusing on Melbourne's inner-city bohemia, including the famous Grosvenor Chambers at 9 Collins Street, this book is the first major work to examine the role of the studio in Australian art."--Dus… OL8848629W
Australian classics Australian classics Jane Gleeson-White Reintroduces 50 classics of Australian literature - including novels, non-fiction, children's literature and poetry - from the last 200 years.What are the classic works of Australian literature? And … OL9312092W