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Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist by Richard Allsop
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country's past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads. However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian im ...Show more
Gerald Murnane - Another World in This One by Anthony Uhlmann (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Anot ...Show more
Goodbye House, Hello House by Margaret Wild
Category: Hardback Picture Books | Series: Australian | Reading Level: Early Childhood
A joyful story about moving house and embracing change from a much-loved, award-winning team. This is the last time I'll fish in this river. This is the last time I'll run through these trees. This is the last time I'll dream by this fire ... Goodbye, old house. Goodbye. A heartwarming story of letti ...Show more
Grace and Glory (Our Australian Girl - Grace #3) by Sofie Laguna
Category: No Category | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1808 . . . and Grace has arrived at a bark hut on the edge of a river to start her life as a servant. But even though she tries hard, nothing she does for her new master ever seems right – especially if it involves Glory, his beloved horse. When her master goes away and leaves her in charge, will ...Show more
Great Australian Ambos Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Yeah, while some of my stories are quite gory, others can be very enlightening. Though, in hindsight, the best outcomes are when the patient pulls through. It's then that you know you've done your job, and you get a bit of a buzz out of that. Put the sirens on and get ready to hit the road, because fact ...Show more
Great Australian Bush Funeral Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin We're nearing the end of the service and so I step closer in to do the last 'ashes to ashes and dust to dust' bit. Just as I get to the edge of the grave, the soil gives away and in I go. Well, they reckon I was like a kangaroo. I hardly missed a bea ...Show more
Great Australian Bush Priests Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: No Category | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Great Australian Bushfire Stories by Ian Mannix
Category: No Category | Series: Great Australian Stories ABC
A collection of remarkable stories from all around Australia that tell of the country's fiercest natural phenomenon: the bushfire. Some stories are funny, some tragic and some courageous, but all the storytellers exhibit tenacity and grit in their fight to save their homes, their animals, their towns, a ...Show more
Great Australian Droving Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: No Category | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
the world of the Australian drover is almost forgotten. In this book we hear of the men (and women) who travelled vast distances along Australia's stock routes. Bill 'Swampy' Marsh travelled around Australia gathering their stories.Before utes, planes and helicopters, mustering and droving were done by ...Show more
Great Australian Ghost Stories by Richard Davis
Category: No Category | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
From gore-spattered convicts and elegant women out of our colonial past to the mysterious ghost lights of the outback and angry poltergeists that wreak havoc on modern homes, Australia seems to be teeming with the restless spirits of our ancestors. You'll meet a wide cross section of them in this far-re ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Great Australian Stories
Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. 'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...' Boasting the biggest beat ...Show more
Great Australian Outback School Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Great Australian Stories
Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback. If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. this collection of more than sixty s ...Show more