Edwards and Shaw Edwards and Shaw i(A36900 works by) (Organisation) assertion
Born: Established: 1945 Sussex Street, Sydney City, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 11 Nov 1983 Surry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
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1 8 y separately published work icon Light Margaret Diesendorf , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1981 Z126485 1981 selected work poetry
2 2 y separately published work icon To You, the Living : Poems of Bereavement and Loss Marjorie Pizer , Leura : Second Back Row Press , 1981 Z309205 1981 selected work poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon The Lee Shore J. M. Couper , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1979 Z115462 1979 selected work poetry
1 3 y separately published work icon A Winter's Journey (1976-1977) : Diary Poems Manfred Jurgensen , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1979 Z388658 1979 selected work poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon The Fabulous Dross T. H. Naisby , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1979 Z224740 1979 selected work poetry
1 6 y separately published work icon The Forbidden City : Poems R. A. Simpson , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1979 Z9657 1979 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon Thrusting into Darkness Robert Clark , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1978 Z151985 1978 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Measure of Life : Poems Joan Edwards , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1978 Z808471 1978 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon The Aviary : Poems (1975-1977) Peter Skrzynecki , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1978 Z478660 1978 selected work poetry
1 5 y separately published work icon Hails and Farewells : And Other Poems Nancy Keesing , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1977 Z25458 1977 selected work poetry
1 6 y separately published work icon A Body of Words Geoffrey Dutton , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1977 Z398499 1977 selected work poetry humour
1 y separately published work icon Journey to the Hill Donald Ellis Everingham , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1976 Z807707 1976 single work poetry
1 4 y separately published work icon The Hooded Lamp Roland Robinson , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1976 Z423088 1976 selected work poetry
1 4 y separately published work icon Spectators on the Shore : Poems Hal Colebatch , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1975 Z105599 1975 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Fear and the Flowering : poems Joan Mas , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1975 Z857437 1975 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Rainbow's End : Poems Fantasia , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1975 Z409877 1975 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon A House of Cards Robin Gurr , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1975 Z237158 1975 selected work poetry
1 5 y separately published work icon The Desolate Market : A Biography of Eric Lambert Zoe O'Leary , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1974 Z157011 1974 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon The Sea Gull Rider : A Novel Oliver Corfe , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1974 Z810715 1974 single work novel

Malcolm Manning is an unaccomplished youth living in North London in the 1960s, with vague ambitions for a more urbane life. He emigrates to Melbourne expecting to make friends with the Prime Minister’s daughter, but because of his shyness doesn’t meet anyone. His attempts to pick up girls at dances fail, as do his attempts to play tennis at his local church. He takes horse-riding lessons in the hope of posing as an Australian stockman, and then decides to return home at the end of his obligatory two years. On the ship back to Southampton he is careful to not speak to the wrong people, and remains isolated, without an opportunity to wear his dinner jacket.

The big welcome home from family and friends doesn’t occur, and he finds Crouch End as drab as before.

The novel opens with Malcolm waiting for an old friend in a pub after his return, anxious to describe all his amazing adventures. The friend doesn’t turn up. It rains throughout the final chapters, but 'as every Englishman knows, the further south you go the warmer it gets.'

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1 4 y separately published work icon The Road to Cactus-Land : A Group of Poems Ernest G. Moll , Sydney : Edwards and Shaw , 1971 Z421142 1971 selected work poetry
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