Dymocks Dymocks i(A56679 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. W. Dymock; William Dymock; Dymock's Book Arcade; Dymock; Dymock's Arcade)
Born: Established: 1881 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
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Australian Supplementary Reader Series Dymocks (publisher), series - publisher children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Dymocks Online Dymocks , 2001- Z941277 2001- website Website of leading Australian bookseller containing author profiles, interviews with authors and links to other literary sites.
1 y separately published work icon Essentials of Communication Peter George Kemeny , Sydney : Dymocks , 1970-1974 Z826586 1970-1974 single work non-fiction
1 y separately published work icon The Wild White Snow Gum : Collected Verse Betty Casey , Sydney : Dymocks , 1960 Z668771 1960 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon Where the Wind's Feet Shine H. H. Wilson , London : Robert Hale , 1960 Z72938 1960 single work novel romance
1 y separately published work icon The Golden Age H. H. Wilson , Sydney : Dymocks , 1959 Z371697 1959 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Shadows Must Talk Julia Allen , Sydney : Dymocks , 1958 Z814655 1958 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Quiet, Brat! H. H. Wilson , Sydney : Dymocks , 1958 Z360759 1958 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Willy Wagtail C. K. Thompson , Sydney : Dymocks , 1957 Z1278964 1957 single work children's fiction children's A light hearted story of the companionable Willy Wagtail and the mischief he creates with other bush birds and four boys.
1 y separately published work icon Coolringdon : Collected Verse Betty Casey , Sydney : Dymocks , 1957 Z805250 1957 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Wild Canary C. K. Thompson , Sydney : Dymocks , 1956 Z849535 1956 single work children's fiction children's Boofie the pet canary is freed from captivity during disatrous floods and must fight for existence among the bush birds.
1 y separately published work icon Mary Livingstone, M. D. : A Novel Julia Allen , Sydney : Dymocks , 1956 Z814652 1956 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Carcoola Backstage : A Career Novel for Girls Nourma Handford , Sydney : Dymocks , 1956 Z430520 1956 single work novel romance young adult

'The story of group of young people who love the theatre, this is a book of the stage, with the familiar background and character of Carcoola Downs–and a young flying doctor.'

Source:

Advertisement, Canberra Times, 4 January 1957, p.4.

1 1 y separately published work icon A Quart Pot on My Saddle : Collected Verse Betty Casey , Sydney : Dymocks , 1956 Z299178 1956 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Thunderbolt the Falcon C. K. Thompson , Sydney : Dymocks , 1954 Z846423 1954 single work children's
1 y separately published work icon The Magnificent Devils Lucy Herndon Crockett , Sydney : Dymocks , 1954 Z806655 1954 single work novel war literature
1 y separately published work icon Coward's Kiss : A Novel Nourma Handford , Sydney : Dymocks , 1954 Z362996 1954 single work novel

'On the last plane out of Communist-besieged Tao-ling, Lisa, and Austrian ex-patriot, meets two men: Marcus, whom she marries, and Richard, who cannot forget her.

The story of Lisa's love for both her husband and for her lover and of the conflicts which prevent her from abandoning a derelict marriage is told with sympathetic warmth.

The plot, tightly knit, moves fast against a backdrop of vivid beauty - that sparkling strip of wooden hill lying between the Pacific ocean and the calm waters of Broken Bay.

Equal in significance, however, is the characterisation which brings the story to life; Richard's mother, vital, indomitable, obtuse; Ernest, who asks only for affection; Cassandra, who has known love and cannot accept a substitute; and lastly and most penetratingly, Mrs. Moult, the Dutch refugee, insecure, frightened, warped.

Coward's Kiss is a novel of today. It mirrors the complexities of a changing world with its shifting standards and nebulous values. It is a story in which most readers will see something of themselves.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 y separately published work icon More Furry Tales Leslie Lee , Sydney : Dymocks , 1953 Z1219077 1953 selected work children's fiction children's
1 3 y separately published work icon Blood on the Leaves : A Novel of Present-Day Malaya Nourma Handford , Sydney : Dymocks , 1953 Z528688 1953 single work novel

'In this gripping story of present-day Malaya, the first novel drawn from the conflict in the Peninsula, action, lust and topicality pack the pages, which tell of the tough, bitter struggle between the rubber planters and the Communist guerrillas. It is the story of men who live with danger twenty-four hours of the day; of women who, separated from their husbands, uncertain of the future, live dangerously in the hotels of sophisticated Singapore; of the Malays, a simple, happy people torn between their feeling of oneness with the age-old neighbours, the Malayan Chinese, and their loyalty to the white Tuans, who provide them with a livelihood and deal justly with them.

'It is the story of one man's love for the Malayan girl who becomes his mistress and whose childlike gaiety and simple devotion offer him the only refuge from a nightmare existence.

'In moving contrast with this is his neighbour, Bellew, frantic with misery when his child is murdered on the plantation, tormented by rumours of his wife's infidelities, who dedicates himself to a vengeance which ultimately destroys him.

'Above all, Blood on the Leaves is the picture sharp, poignant and clear cut, of the oft repeated pattern of Communist rapacity as it spreads its red fungus of hate and terrorism, and of the efforts of Western civilisation, awakening, perhaps too late, to stem it.

'Blood on the Leaves is not for the squeamish, but it is a book which will be read.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 2 y separately published work icon The Valley of Swans A. J. Masman , Sydney : Dymocks , 1953 Z514322 1953 single work novel historical fiction
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