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Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
$14.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads--'full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back'. Drylands is the story of the townsfolk's ...Show more
It's Raining in Mango: Popular Penguins by Thea Astley
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
One family traced from the 1860s to the 1980s, beginning with Cornelius Laffey, an Irish-born journalist. Wresting his kin from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, he takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. The family confronts the horror ...Show more
Reaching Tin River: Text Classics by Jennifer Down, Thea Astley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Beautifully written." --Publishers Weekly "Intelligent, fresh, and new." --Kirkus First published in 1990. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. Young Australian Belle, the daughter of an American musician, looks back on the people and forces that shaped her life. Researching in the archiv ...Show more
The Acolyte by Thea Astley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Jack Holberg is a blind musician and composer from Queensland who becomes world famous. Paul Vesper, 'the acolyte' of the title, tells the great man's story and his own in this dark, funny portrait of an artistic genius and those who worshipped and suffered, at his feet.
The Slow Natives by Thea Astley
$170.00 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
'If one saw behind the faces into the hearts, one would die.'A suburban couple have drifted into the shallows of middle-aged boredom. Their fourteen-year-old son is a stranger, meeting their attempts at love with hostile indifference. Surly at home, he is a dab hand at shoplifting and looks like sliding ...Show more
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