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A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The frank and intimate journey of self-discovery by author, critic and arts commentator Robert Dessaix. Confronting, revealing and candid, the book traces his life from adoption towards the end of World War II, to a most unusual childhood on Sydney's North Shore, to his fascination with Russia and his t ...Show more
Because A White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert
$16.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Kevin Gilbert's powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism. First published in 1973, Gilbert's controversial account of ...Show more
Coonardoo by Katherine Prichard
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
A tough, uncompromising novel about the difficult love between a white man and a black woman. Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo a ...Show more
JONAH by LOUIS STONE
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Jonah by Louis Stone is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print ...Show more
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A&R Classics
'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAESTRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A&R Classics
'An exquisitely crafted journey of Australian suburban life ...fresh and irresistible' - Miles Franklin Literary Award judges As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, Vic, Rita and their son, Michael, are off to a party. George Bedser has invited the whole neighbourhood ...Show more
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. A woman finds her voice and leaves behind a book of lessons. It is the story of her secret self. On honeymoon, in the heat and shadows of sultry Marrakech, a conventional young wife makes a s ...Show more
Wild Cat Falling by Mudrooroo
$17.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: A&R Classics
This was the first novel by a writer of Aboriginal blood to be published in Australia and in 1965 marked a unique literary event. "Wild Cat Falling" is the story of an Australia Aboriginal youth who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town. He falls into petty crime, goes to gaol and comes out ...Show more
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