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3 2 y separately published work icon Winds of Change Lee Pattinson , Milsons Point : Random House , 1991 Z211373 1991 single work novel historical fiction
3 1 y separately published work icon Farewell to Cricket Donald Bradman , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1950 Z1522717 1950 single work autobiography
2 y separately published work icon Leila, A Woman's Destiny : An Historical Romance Leslie A. Schubert , Mandurah : Blue Bay Publishers , 1995 Z1435124 1995 single work novel historical fiction
22 115 y separately published work icon Jack Maggs Peter Carey , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1997 Z205857 1997 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 8 units) The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a hardened criminal, and he is risking his life on seeking vengeance and reconciliation.
Influenced by Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.
4 22 y separately published work icon Soundings Liam Davison , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993 Z319311 1993 single work novel

'In this haunting novel, Cameron's life changes when he retreats to a small community in the Westernport swampland. The landscape becomes his obsession and photographs reveal unsettling images from the past.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2 6 y separately published work icon The Web of Time Lee Harding , Stanmore : Cassell Australia , 1979 Z846009 1979 single work novel young adult science fiction adventure
1 y separately published work icon Jeff Hook and the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind Presents the Hook, Look and Feel Book Jeff Hook , Jeff Hook (illustrator), Melbourne : Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind , 1990 Z1033598 1990 single work picture book children's
2 y separately published work icon Land of Hope : An Australian Family Saga Gay Scales , Melbourne : Heinemann , 1986 Z481723 1986 single work novel
4 7 y separately published work icon Deal Me Out : A Cliff Hardy Novel Peter Corris , Sydney London : Unwin Paperbacks , 1986 Z410667 1986 single work novel crime detective

'Cliff Hardy starts out to help a friend but before long he's looking for an enemy - William Mountain: a boozer, TV scriptwriter, would-be novelist who is missing and searching for adventure. Mountain's adventure is Hardy's 'case' which rapidly becomes a case he would rather not have. Mountain is the dealer in a deadly game and the hands he deals become more and more bizarre...' (Publication summary)
5 10 y separately published work icon Waiting for the End of the World Lee Harding , Melbourne : Hyland House , 1983 Z485436 1983 single work novel science fiction young adult

In a 21st century Australia where cities are armed fortifications and the population is kept docile by government-approved drugs, a group of young people determines to seek a more secure future in the unknown bush away from the threat of the Patrol.
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)
7 14 y separately published work icon The Way Home: Being the Second Part of the Chronicle of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1925 Z55593 1925 single work novel historical fiction
9 32 y separately published work icon Ultima Thule : Being the Third Part of the Chronicle of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1929 Z430784 1929 single work novel historical fiction
8 54 y separately published work icon The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Australia Felix Henry Handel Richardson , London : Heinemann , 1917 Z430677 1917 single work novel historical fiction

'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all…deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue of vitality…It was like a buried treasure, jealously kept for the event of his one day catching up with life: not the bare scramble for a living that here went by that name, but Life with a capital L.

'Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better.

'Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a towering novel.' (Publication summary)
5 26 y separately published work icon Haxby's Circus : The Lightest, Brightest Little Show on Earth Katharine Susannah Prichard , ( nar. Tom Lake ) Melbourne : Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind , 29231743 1930 single work novel
— Appears in: Tsirk Kheksbi ; Negasimoe Plamia 1985;
A world of wandering mushroom tents, spawning on bare paddocks beside some small town and then off again ... places that smelt of milk and wheat, where the farmer people gave you milk and apples, or melons; you got fresh water to drink and a bath sometimes. A dirty, strenuous world. Cruel, courageous, a hard, hungry world for all the glitter and flare of its laughter; but a good world, her world.' Welcome to Haxby's Circus - the lightest, brightest little show on earth. From Bendigo to Narrabri, travelling the long and dusty roads between harvest fields, the Haxby family and their troupe - acrobats, contortionists, wirewalkers, clowns and wild beasts - perform under the glaring lights of the big top. But away from the spotlight and superficial glamour of the circus the real, and sometimes tragic, lives of the performers are exposed: their hopes and dreams, successes and failures, the drudgery of life on the road. Proprietor Dan Haxby lives by the maxim 'the show must go on', even when his daughter Gina, the bareback rider, has a dreadful accident. Gina may never ride again, but, with some advice from circus dwarf Rocca, who shows her how to transform her liability into art, she flourishes and discovers a courageous spirit within. 'Katharine Susannah Prichard takes the raw material of our lives and transmutes it into the gold of literature' - Mary Durack

(Source: Harper Collins)
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