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Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd & Christos Tsiolkas
$12.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics
Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In it Boyd railed against Australia's promotion of ornament, decorative approach to design and slavish imitatio ...Show more
Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics by Sumner Locke Elliot
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Based on the childhood of Sumner Locke Elliot, this novel is set in the Great Depression. PB, an orphan, lives a secure working-class life in Sydney. That's all about to change, however, when his Aunt Vanessa arrives from London and scoops him up to raise him as her own child."
Eat Me by Linda Jaivin
$12.95 AUD
Category: Women's Erotic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Introduced by Krissy Kneen First published in 1995, Eat Me became an instant international bestseller-and caused a scandal in the US. Julia is a photographer, Chantal edits a fashion magazine, Helen is a feminist academic and Philippa is a writer. These four friends haunt the cafes of inner-city Sydney, ...Show more
Fairyland by Locke Elliot Sumner
$12.95 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Text Classics
The final book by Sumner Locke Elliott, the award-winning author of Careful, He Might Hear You.
Rose Boys - Text Classics by Peter Rose
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Text Classics
What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years after just another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands of others who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want to examine my brother's life and reanimate him... ...Show more
Selected Poems – Lesbia Harford by Gerald Murnane, Lesbia Harford
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A collection of poems by the Australian poet Lesbia Harford, selected and introduced by Gerald Murnane.I love you moreThan God loves the world.Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poems-about social justice, revolution, free love, feminism and ...Show more
Take Me to Paris, Johnny (Text Classic) by John Foster
$12.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Text Classics Ser.
John Foster's moving yet unsentimental account of the life of his partner, Juan Cespedes. In 1981 the young Cuban dancer Juan is a struggling dancer in NYC. There he meets John, an Australian historian. The two live in New York, where Juan tries to make it on Broadway. They cross the globe together, bat ...Show more
The Young Desire It - Text Classics by Kenneth Mackenzie
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics
In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private pa ...Show more
Visitants Text Classics by Randolph Stow
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics
'I want to die. I do not want to be mad...It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come, and attacked the person who lived there.' After an Australian patrol officer commits suicide on a remote New Guinea island in 1959, five witnesses are called to a government inquiry. Each has a disturbing ...Show more
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