Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and rundown 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.

Harp In The South

Literature & Fiction

Park,Ruth

Contemporary

Penguin Australia

Ride A Wild Pony

Aldridge, James

Judith goes to Malaysia to report on an international refugee crisis. Through her encounters with Minou, French-Vietnamese wife of a diplomat, she is drawn into dangerous personal and political situations. It is on the coast, when turtles gather to breed, that the drama reaches its tragic climax.

Turtle Beach

Dalpuget, Blanche

Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world.

This Earth Of Mankind

Toer, Pramoedya Ananta

Short stories portray commonplace characters coping with unexpected situations

Woman In A Lampshade

Jolley, Elizabeth

Beachmasters

Astley, Thea

A Fortunate Life

A true classic of Australian literature, this simply written autobiography is an inspiration Born in 1894, Albert Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, and spent 60 years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a "fortunate" one. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration. It is the story of a life lived to the full—the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.

A.B. Facey

Biographies & Memoirs

Fortunate Life

Facey, A.B.

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 colorful slums of Sydney with convincing depth, careful detail, and great heart.

Missus

British & Irish

Cooper's Creek (Penguin Non-fiction)

Travel

Alan Moorehead

Australia & South Pacific

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