An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney.Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy.Filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry, this Australian classic will take you straight back to the colourful slums of Sydney with convincing depth, careful detail, and great heart.

The Harp in the South

Literature & Fiction

RUTH PARK

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Harp In The South

Penguin Books Australia Ltd.

Fence Around the Cuckoo Park

Penguin Books Australia

Fishing in the Styx

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin

Missus takes us behind the lives of Hughie and Mumma, out of the gritty realism of inner city slum life and into the past of the stations, the bush and the country towns.  We meet them as they were in the early 1920s, drifter Hugh Darcy, the unwilling hero who sweeps the dreamily innocent Margaret Kilker off her feet. Ruth Park richly creates the turmoil of those early days of their courtship in the dusty outback, filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry.  Ruth Park’s Australian classics take you from the barren landscapes of the outback to the colourful slums of Sydney with convincing depth, careful detail and great heart.

Missus

Swords and Crowns and Rings

Literary

The Harp in the South (Penguin Modern Classics)

E-Penguin

Wombat, Tabby and Mouse disagree on what should be thrown out on Clean Up Day in this Australian children's story about the importance of friends and possessions. Colorful classic illustrations of animal characters perfectly engage the reader along with the descriptive and telling human characteristics of the animals friends.

The Muddle-headed Wombat on Clean-up Day (Young Australia Series)

Children's Books

Angus and Robertson

The Muddle-Headed Wombat In The Treetops

Angus & Robinson

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