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The Lucky Country
When it was first published in 1964, The Lucky Country caused a sensation. Horne took Australian society to task for its philistinism, provincialism and dependence. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. The book s...
My First Ever and Best Story Collection (Charlie and Lola)
This is a collection of five extremely good stories all about absolutely very important things like making friends, being independent and even taking part in your very first school sports day! It contains: 'You can be my friend', 'Help! I really mean it', 'I am really, really concentrating', 'I can do a...
Christopher and His Kind
In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. As th...
Clayhanger
No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Serious, good-natured and full of incoherent ambition, Edwin's hopes and dreams for the future are just taking shape, even as they are put to the t...
Gilgamesh
Gilgameshis the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose...
Sheep Won't Sleep
Counting sheep is supposed to help you sleep--but a room full of yaks, alpacas, and llamas would keep anyone awake in this counting book with a comical twist.Winner of the Mathical Book Prize!A glass of warm milk, reading, working on her knitting--nothing can help Clarissa get to sleep. When even counti...
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