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Born: Established: 1987 North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, ;
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2 53 y separately published work icon Bush Studies Barbara Baynton , Sydney : Eden Paperbacks , 1989 Z820571 1902 selected work short story (taught in 12 units)

'Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism—for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness.

'Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Barbara Baynton’s short-story collection presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
8 3 y separately published work icon The Battling Prophet Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1989 1955 single work novel crime mystery detective

'Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate forecasts have helped farmers all over Australia, until recently lived nearby. But he has died after a three week drinking binge and a doctor certified death resulting from delirium tremens. Yet Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of, it wasn't alcohol.' (Publication summary)
4 7 y separately published work icon Man of Two Tribes Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1989 Z152501 1956 single work novel crime detective Bony discovers a group of people imprisoned in limestone underground caves and must free them and lead them to safety.
1 17 y separately published work icon Here's Luck Lennie Lower , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1989 Z1174152 1930 single work novel humour (taught in 1 units)
5 10 y separately published work icon Naked Under Capricorn Olaf Ruhen , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1989 Z114867 1958 single work novel Davis Marriner had been drawn into the wilderness of the Australian desert by specious tales of easy wealth, only to be robbed and abandoned by his companions. Naked and alone he lay beneath the fierce sun of Capricorn, and there he would have died but for Jeff Edrington, a travelling horse trader, who saved his life and taught him the rudiments of continued survival in this hard and unknown country. Through Edrington and the tribe of Aborigines among whom he later settled, Marriner was floated on a tide that carried him down the years to wealth and influence as the owner of a great cattle station, his name becoming known in the distant cities of the coast as that of an almost legendary figure. This impressive novel vividly illustrates the opening up of central Australia during the first four decades of this century and reflects the same deep concern for primitive peoples in an era of change that was so memorable a feature of Olaf Ruhen's tales of New Guinea, Land of Dahori. (Publisher's blurb).
2 5 y separately published work icon Mad as Rabbits Elizabeth Lane , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1989 Z1210280 1962 single work novel humour A 'humorous story of a girl growing up in a large family on a farm in the Victorian Wimmera'.
1 16 y separately published work icon Cockatoos : A Story of Youth and Exodists Brent of Bin Bin , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1989 Z431249 1954 single work novel
2 1 y separately published work icon They Came From the Sea E. V. Timms , 1955 North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1989 Z267029 1955 single work novel historical fiction
1 12 y separately published work icon All the Green Year D. E. Charlwood , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1989 Z242695 1965 single work novel

'It was the end of an era; a year of ‘outlandish happenings’; a time when everything seemed to change for Charlie Reeve, a daydreaming lad growing up in a small town on the Mornington Peninsula.

'His teacher and dad are giving him a hard time, his neighbour Squid keeps getting him into trouble, and his best mate Johnno is busy seeing a girl—which leads Charlie to a nasty fight with Big Simmons.

'First published in 1965, and subsequently made into a popular ABC TV series, All the Green Year is the story of a boy’s journey towards adulthood—‘not only the humour of it but its drama and pain’, as the 96-year-old Don Charlwood writes in his revised afterword.

'This Text Classics edition of one of Australia’s most loved coming-of-age novels comes with a new introduction by Michael McGirr, author of the bestseller Things You Get for Free. (Publication summary : Text Classics)
7 4 y separately published work icon The Bone Is Pointed Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 1938 single work novel crime

'Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.' (Publication summary)
1 3 y separately published work icon The Fury E. V. Timms , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 Z161098 1954 single work novel historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon Frigate Bird P. G. Taylor , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 Z1489058 1953 single work autobiography In March 1951 Taylor flew across the South Pacific from Australia to Chile, via Tahiti and Easter Island, in the Catalina Frigate Bird II. This work describes his journey.
5 28 y separately published work icon Love Me Sailor Robert S. Close , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 Z123951 1945 single work novel
2 2 y separately published work icon White Coolies Betty Jeffrey , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 1954 single work autobiography The experiences of an Australian Army Nursing sister in the hands of the Japanese during World War II. (Libraries Australia)
1 4 y separately published work icon Spirit Man Elizabeth O'Conner , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 Z113718 1980 single work novel
1 7 y separately published work icon The Cattle King : The Story of Sir Sidney Kidman Ion L. Idriess , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 Z1095091 1936 single work biography

'At the age of 13 Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. Above all, Kidman created a mighty cattle empire of more than a hundred stations, fighting droughts, bushfires, floods and plagues of vermin to do so. His enterprise and courage won him a huge fortune and made him a legend. ' (Publication summary)
1 4 y separately published work icon Back o'Cairns Back of Cairns Ion L. Idriess , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 Z1094833 1958 single work autobiography 'In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as "Gouger" for the Bulletin.

'In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler's axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the district's historical background. The book is peopled by characters given to polite chiacking and the writing of poetry, and the reading of 'pomes' by the evening campfire... Perhaps the most interesting is the 'Jungle Man' who could scent animals and Aborigines in the scrub before they scented him. He also possessed incredible hearing... who took Jack into the rugged mountains and the dense jungle and showed him a primitive world few men have ever seen. Jack was treading in the paths of his heroes - the explorers.'  (Publication summary2021)
 
4 2 y separately published work icon The Mystery of Swordfish Reef Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 Z101751 1939 single work novel crime mystery detective 'An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing...and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol bullet. But by whom and why is for Bony to find out.' - (back cover, 1983 Arkon Paperback).
10 y separately published work icon The White Savage Arthur W. Upfield , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 29159365 1961 single work novel mystery detective crime
2 27 y separately published work icon The Broad Arrow : Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer Oline Keese , North Ryde : Eden Paperbacks , 1988 16674054 1859 single work novel

'Caroline Leakey, writing as Oliné Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middleclass woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then wrongly convicted of infanticide. The novel’s title describes the arrow that was stamped onto government property, including the clothes worn by convicts — a symbol of shame and incarceration. With its ‘fallen woman’ protagonist, its gothic undertones and its exploration of the social and moral implications of the penal system, this little-known novel gives an insight into a significant chapter of Australian history from a uniquely female perspective.' (Publication summary)
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