Product Description: While the European, English, and American literary traditions are justly celebrated, Australia's literary landscape has long been neglected. This richly illustrated book puts Australia in its place on the literary map, discussing writers past and present in all genres of popular and serious fiction and nonfiction; notable publishers and booksellers; literary gathering places; artists who wrote or whose work influenced writing; and patrons of literature...read more

Product Description: Clubbing of the Gunfire is an anthology of poems written about a century of wars in which Australians have fought and died, from the Sudan Campaign of 1885 through both World Wars to the Vietnam War. Many of the poets are famous - 'Banjo' Paterson, Henry Lawson, Vincent Buckley, Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright, A...read more

With Brown County, Texas, under the siege of a drought, the murderous and vengeful Lemuel Blunt, with the assistance of a crooked sheriff, sets out to drive away the owners of some prime land, until Hugh Hampton and his neighbors take the law into their own hands. Original. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The cultural bridge that war has formed between Australia and the world is discussed in this important anthology. From the Sudan in 1885 to Afghanistan in 2001, these lively essays connect war and travel in the observations of writers such as "Banjo" Paterson, George Johnston, Nancy Wake, John Pilger, and Peter Weir...read more

Product Description: The Cambridge History of Australian Literature is the most comprehensive volume ever written on Australia's national literature. This authoritative guide spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, encompassing indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society...read more

Product Description: In an oil refinery on the shores of Sydney, an army of workers come and go . . .Winner of Australia's highest literary honor, the Miles Franklin Award, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner is a classic, fiercely brilliant comic portrait of a nation in the grip of a dehumanizing labor system...read more

Product Description: "Australia's finest war memoir."—Peter PierceAt age eighteen, Peter Ryan was an intelligence operative, patrolling isolated regions of New Guinea during World War II.Isolated, with Japanese forces closing in, he endured the hardships of the jungle without adequate supplies, a radio, or even a proper map...read more