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1 3 y separately published work icon Jamberoo Road Eleanor Spence , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1969 Z819959 1969 single work children's fiction children's
2 2 y separately published work icon The Switherby Pilgrims Eleanor Spence , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1967 Z818763 1967 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction
2 y separately published work icon Antarctic Secret Michael Barrett , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1965 Z1643600 1965 single work children's fiction children's adventure science fiction
1 y separately published work icon A Secret to Sell : A Story of the First Settlement in Western Australia Melva Lear , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1965 Z844135 1965 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction A fictional account of settlement at King George Sound, Western Australia in 1826.
1 2 y separately published work icon The Year of the Currawong Eleanor Spence , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1965 Z836739 1965 single work children's fiction children's

'The Kendall children have just moved into Currawong Crossing when they find themselves in a mystery involving the ownership of an old silver mine.' (Introduction)
3 1 y separately published work icon The Green Laurel Eleanor Spence , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1965 Z836712 1963 single work children's fiction children's The Somerville's normally nomadic existence is interrupted by Mr Somerville's ill-health which means during their annual visit to Dragon Bay, they are forced to stay in a boarding house instead of camping out. It marks the beginning of a strange and eventful year in which Lesley and Rae make new friends, begin to grow up and fulfil ambitions. It is also a year in which the whole family has to adapt to some surprising and not always welcome changes.
1 30 y separately published work icon The Time of the Peacock : Stories Mena Abdullah , Ray Mathew , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1965 Z519582 1965 selected work short story Most of the twelve stories in the collection are narrated by the small Indian girl, Nimmie, who weaves together the sometimes happy, sometimes sad, strands of a mixed Moslem and Hindu Indian-Australian home community in near physical isolation from city or town life.
1 y separately published work icon The Young Captain Cook Frank Knight , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1964 Z1189094 1964 single work biography children's
1 y separately published work icon Exploring Australia Eve Pownall , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1962 Z825942 1958 single work information book children's
2 1 y separately published work icon Lillipilly Hill Eleanor Spence , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1960 Z816535 1960 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction

'Lillipilly Hill is the story of Harriet Wilmot and her family, who have come to live in an inherited house in the New South Wales town of Barley Creek at the end of the nineteenth century.

'Harriet is in awe of Australia, despite the heat and unconventional schooling, and much prefers it to dreary old London. Not all of the Wilmots agree however and Harriet breaks rules and expectations in her efforts to convince her family to stay in this new and exciting land.

'Following an altercation with another boy Harriet's brother Aidan even attempts to walk, in the middle of the night, to the harbour. Battling the kind of darkness you only get in the country and impenetrable swampland Aidan comes across a mysterious young man with a dog who will change his perspective on Australia and even life itself.

'Lillipilly Hill is a delightful coming-of-age story that is all at once sweet and adventurous, sensitive and exciting. ' (Publication summary)
1 4 y separately published work icon Tales from the Aborigines W. E. Harney , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1960-1969 Z499775 1959 selected work short story Indigenous story 'Many Aborigines have recounted these tales to me and in the re-telling I have woven the camp-life and customs of the story-tellers into the tales. As an end piece to some of the stories I have put in some verse to explain-in their quaint way of expressing their English-many of their observations about our ways of life. In gathering these tales I experienced many pleasures and happy days amidst a very intelligent people, and I now take this opportunity of thanking them for the stories they so willingly narrated to me around the camp-fires in the Northern Territory of Australia.' (Source: Author's Note)
1 y separately published work icon Crime Upon Crime Arthur Gask , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1957 Z1051541 1952 single work novel detective
1 y separately published work icon The Name is Smith Eric North , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1957 Z811129 1957 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon An Artist in Love Philip Lindsay , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1954 Z498051 1954 single work novel A novel about Thomas Lawrence, eighteenth century English artist, and his passion for Sally, the eldest daughter of Mrs Siddons.
3 1 y separately published work icon Murder in Haste Heather Gardiner , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1954 Z227257 1954 single work novel crime

'[T]he narrator, a woman-social-columnist, discovers a mysterious girl-migrant from England dead in the home of one of Sydney's best families. The murder may be: the ageing head of the family; his beautiful, too-young, and too-roving-eyed second wife; his engaged daughter; her medical fiance; their interior-decorator friend; or the mysterious and handsome young man who sinisterly shadowed the victim when the narrator first saw her in a coffee sgop.'

Source: 'Reviewed Briefly', The Bulletin, 23 June 1954, p.2.
1 y separately published work icon The Merry Mistress : A Novel Philip Lindsay , New York (City) : Roy Publishers , 1953 Z1233485 1952 single work novel historical fiction

'Unloved and publicly disgraced, an adulteress walks the streets of London to Ludgate prison. Her feet are bare; in her hands she carries a penitential candle.

'Her name is Jane Shore.'

'Philip Lindsay recounts Jane’s story – from her marriage as a child of fourteen to William Shore to her life at court as one of Edward IV’s lovers – with a masterful knowledge of this troubled period in history.'

'Through wars and betrayal, secrecy and discovery, he weaves a compelling tale of a child thrust into the life of a woman, pulling in the reader until they are entirely submerged in her tale of woe and wonder.'

'For Jane Shore was a woman like no other, unafraid of danger and cunning enough to work herself from the position of a simple mercer’s wife to one of the Queen’s most trusted ladies in waiting – and even into the heart of the King.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Endeavour edition).
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