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Honour & Other People's Children: Text Classics by Helen Garner
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Two novellas, delving into our connections with those we love, and the pain of breaking those connections. Introduced by Michael Sala.In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, and share the parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathle ...Show more
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
15.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Text Classics
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship - a 'living memorial' to the poet Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the Fr ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
15.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
Sydney Bridge Upside down: Text Classics by David Ballantyne; Kate De Goldi (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A great, untamed story about childhood, a summer holiday and a sinister tragedy that looms over everything. Introduction by Kate De Goldi. The terrible happenings take place at the abandoned meatworks in Calliope Bay, a forbidden and dangerous place, where the cries of animals being slaughtered can be h ...Show more
The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut." Fourteen-year-old Neddy Poindexter and his mate Les take swift revenge on the chook-rustling Lynch Gang, but things turn sinister when vulture-like Hubert Salter stalks into Klynham. There's a sex killer on the loose, and Neddy is i ...Show more
The Tournament: Text Classics by John Clarke
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 of the world's most creative players - everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco ...Show more
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