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3 6 y separately published work icon The Boys from Bondi Alan Collins , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1987 Z81644 1987 single work novel young adult Jacob and Solly Kaiser's world suddenly falls apart when they are pitched into the alien world of a Sydney children's home. It is the 1930's, Depression-time, clouded by the rise of Fascism in Europe. Tragedy and comedy intermingle as Jacob steps through the minefield of his teenage years to discover his own place in the world.
3 25 y separately published work icon The Beauties and Furies Christina Stead , London : Peter Davies , 1936 Z448545 1936 single work novel "Chiefly, the story is concerned with some of the passengers [on a train to Dieppe]: Elvira, a wasted beauty, who has fled from married life in England; Olivier, her student lover, with whom she comes to live in Paris; Marpurgo, a middle-aged lace buyer, who, at once grim and comic, is the friend and enemy of all; and finally, there is Coromandel, a young French girl, inspired and unique." (Dust jacket, US edition)
2 y separately published work icon Where Magic Lies Ainslie Meares , Melbourne : Hawthorn Press , 1968 Z1281885 1968 single work novel
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