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Text Classics are iconic books by our most loved writers.
The Text Classics series is designed to unearth some of the lost marvels of our literature, and to allow readers to rediscover wonderful books they have never forgotten. These books are milestones in the Australian experience. We have chosen them in the conviction that they still have much to say to us, undiminished in their power to delight, challenge and surprise us.
‘The Text Classics series is one of the great endeavours of modern Australian publishing and has helped us rediscover countless literary gems.’ Courier-Mail
The Text Classics series is designed to unearth some of the lost marvels of our literature, and to allow readers to rediscover wonderful books they have never forgotten. These books are milestones in the Australian experience. We have chosen them in the conviction that they still have much to say to us, undiminished in their power to delight, challenge and surprise us.
‘The Text Classics series is one of the great endeavours of modern Australian publishing and has helped us rediscover countless literary gems.’ Courier-Mail
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Me and Mr Booker
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Owls Do Cry
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The Idea of Perfection
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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Amy's Children: Text Classics
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Bring Larks And Heroes: Text Classics
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Bush Studies
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The Watch Tower
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Death in Brunswick
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Dark Places
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To the Islands
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Wake In Fright
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Drylands
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For the Term of His Natural Life
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Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop
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Jonah
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My Brilliant Career
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Selected Stories
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Out of the Line of Fire
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Such is Life
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1788
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The Cockatoos
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The Last Days of Chez Nous and Two Friends
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A Change In The Lighting
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A Difficult Young Man
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The Commandant
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The Jerilderie Letter
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A Dutiful Daughter
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The Life and Adventures of William Buckley
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A Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics
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The Little Hotel
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A Kindness Cup
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The Home Girls
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A Lifetime on Clouds
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The Long Prospect
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A Little Tea, a Little Chat
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The Middle Parts of Fortune
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A Pure Clear Light
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The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
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A Stairway to Paradise
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A Woman of the Future
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The Odd Angry Shot
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All The Green Year
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The Plains
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All in the Blue Unclouded Weather (The Melling Sisters, #1)
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The Fringe Dwellers
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The Puzzleheaded Girl: Four Novellas
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The Quiet Earth
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An Iron Rose
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The Getting of Wisdom
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The Refuge
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Ash Road
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The Scarecrow
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Aunts Up the Cross
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The Sky in Silver Lace (The Melling Sisters, #3)
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Australia in Arms: The Story of Gallipoli: Text Classics
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The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
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Blue Skies
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The Suburbs of Hell
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The Tournament
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The True Story of Spit MacPhee
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Cafe Scheherazade
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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
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Came Back To Show You I Could Fly
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The Visit
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Careful, He Might Hear You
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Carry Me Down
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The Watcher in the Garden
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Cosmo Cosmolino
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They Found A Cave
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Dancing on Coral
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They're a Weird Mob
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Dancing with Strangers
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Time without Clocks: Text Classics
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To the Wild Sky
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Diary of a Bad Year
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Tobruk 1941
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Dog Boy
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Tourmaline
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Down in the City
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Visitants
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Dresses of Red and Gold (The Melling Sisters, #2)
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When Blackbirds Sing
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Eat Me
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Whispering in the Wind
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Fairyland
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Wish
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Fear Drive My Feet
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The Young Desire It
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Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics
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Happy Valley
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Hills End
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Homesickness
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Honour and Other People's Children
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I Own the Racecourse!
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I Saw a Strange Land - Journeys in Central Australia
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I for Isobel
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In the Memorial Room
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Julia Paradise
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