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| Crow on a Barbed Wire Fence by Lewis, Harold This is the rollicking adventure of a young man in Outback Australia, at a time when swaggies, quartpots and 'Jimmy Woodsers' were part of our language and heritage. | $7.00 |
| We of the Never-Never by Gunn, Mrs Aeneas In 1902 Mrs Aeneas Gunn went with her husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. 'We of the Never-Never' and 'The Little Black Princess' are two classics of Australian literature that she wrote about her experiences in the outback. Both works have been presented here as one special condensed edition to accompany the magnificanet film 'We of the Never-Never' | $6.00 |
| Browning P.I. by Corris, Peter Hollywood. Studio screenwriter Hart Sallust, well known patron of sleazy bars and nightclubs, has disappeared. Peter McVey, private eye, has been hired to find him. In unfamiliar territory, McVey enlists Browning - part-time actor, part-time private eye - at home in any Hollywood bar. From Hollywood bars to the Chinese underworld, their search uncovers the beautiful May Lin. With Sallust when he disappeared, and seemingly inconsolable. Or is she? Her story has 'more holes in it than a flyscreen'. | $7.00 |
| Kundu by West, Morris Kurt Sonderfeld: a man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of power, a manipulator who will use even sorcery and murder to achieve his goals. Gerda: Sonderfeld's beautiful wife, who has seen how implacably ruthless he can be. Kumo: the powerful young villager who knows the ancient ways of killing by sorcery. Curtis: the young Patrol Officer faced with an unsolved murder and tribal unrest. | $5.00 |
| Shadow Seeker by McVeity, Jen Saving hundreds of rats from the dissecting knife is only the start of the Green Guerrillas campaign. Their leader is Tess Robertson, a genius at fighting environmental pollution and injustice - and equally brilliant at fighting with friends and family at the same time. Now Tess is planning her biggest battle yet. She has to stop a billion dollar paper mill from being set up in town, and pumping dioxin, one of the world's most toxic pollutants, into the air. | $6.00 |
| The Man from Snowy River by Mitchell, Elyne From Banjo Paterson's immortal ballad comes the novel - the stirring tale of the boy who became the man from Snowy River. Jim Craig is eighteen years old and cannot return to his mountain home until he has proved himself a man. Jessica Harrison is the beautiful, impetuous daughter of the wealthy cattleman whose expensive colt runs off to join the brumby mob. And then there is the stallion, leader of the brumbies for almost twenty years, ranging free and proud in the mountains, whose very existence is like a dark thread running through the lives of so many people... | $6.00 |
| The Electrical Experience by Moorhouse, Frank T. George McDowell believes in Getting the Job Done. He is a small industrialist on the South Coast of New South Wales, a manufacturer of aerated soft drinks. A Rotarian, a Mason (though unconvinced), an apostle of Progress, of electricity, refrigeration and the wireless, he is a Realist and a Rationalist - a 'fair man but hard as nails'. T.George McDowell sees himself as a bastion of quality in a world that is not changing for the better; a champion of independent enterprise against both big corporations and trade unionism. He is a shy, lonely man whose conception of a carefully planned family cannot accomodate his sexual longings. He is a maker and a breaker. He is also a surprsingly appealing and winning character. Into his world of old-time values at last comes Becker, the Coca-cola salesman and sometime lover of T.George's second daughter, Terri, as some kind of emmissary from the new world. | $7.00 |
| My Career Goes Bung by Franklin, Miles In this book, the REAL Sybylla Melvyn emerges - with the same spirit, sensitivity and forthrightness but with considerably less melodrama and hysteria. Her experiences at home and in town, with her patrons, her critics and her innumerable suitors, will delight every reader. | $5.00 |
| All That Swagger by Franklin, Miles A sweeping saga of pioneer life following the fortunes of the Delacy family, members of Australia's squattocracy. | $5.00 |
| Paint Out by Wallace, Robert Essington Holt, intrepid art collector, nouveau millionaire, is intrigued when an old friend from his outback days suggests a meeting in Paris. Robert Carbentus' claim to own a Van Gogh had always fascinated Essington and he was in the mood to know more. But when Robert fails to turn up for the meeting, detained, indefinitely, by a terrorist bomb, Essington is sparked into action, and steps straight into danger..... | $4.00 |
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