Halstead Classics series - publisher  
First known date: ca. 2001 Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Halstead Classics
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y separately published work icon Say No to Death Dymphna Cusack , Melbourne : Heinemann , 1951 Z42833 1951 single work novel Business is booming in Dymphna Cusack's Say No to Death, a story of post-war Sydney, black marketeering, and sacrificial romance. The same cannot be said for a public health system that struggles to offer a future for cash-strapped tuberculosis patients, such as the doomed heroine of this novel, Jan. For contemporary readers, however, the trajectory of Jan and Bart's relationship may seem less interesting than Cusack's evocation of the failings of government health policy in Australia and the fine account of this devastating illness in a city beset by wartime shortages. (Source: Susan Carson) Rushcutters Bay : Halstead Press , 2001
y separately published work icon Distant Land Judah Waten , Melbourne : Cheshire , 1964 Z52668 1964 single work novel

This novel of present day migrant life centres on Joshua Kuperschmidt who arrives with his wife Shoshanah, from Poland, in 1925. He has given up his family and his traditional European ties to escape war and persecution, in the hope of a better life.

It is the moving story of a Jewish couple who have adapted themselves to a strange new environment in a distant land - a country where even the small Jewish community differs markedly from that they have known. Material success is the reward for Shoshanah's unrelenting ambition; but Joshua is never sure whether his own ambitions in this new society are ever fulfilled. (Publisher's blurb).

 Rushcutters Bay : Halstead Press , 2001
y separately published work icon Three Little Maids Ethel Turner , London : Ward, Lock , 1900 Z1013704 1900 single work children's fiction children's Sydney : Halstead Press , 2002
y separately published work icon War in Words : The Halstead Armoury of Australian War Writing Matthew Richardson (editor), Broadway : Halstead Press , 2004 Z1107191 2004 anthology autobiography correspondence extract poetry short story war literature 'Australian writers have excelled since colonial times in presenting war in all its aspects, drawing character as it emerges under the pressures of life and death struggle. Arranged historically are poems and fine prose, from Furphy's sardonic story of the Arrow War, to post-Vietnam reflections on the aftermath of conflict, their insights are the key to an outlook on war which has not developed in other cultures' (Publisher's blurb). Broadway : Halstead Press , 2004
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