Australian Authors
| author: Barry Dickins | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1984 | publisher: Pascoe Publishing | | content type: book | description: Barry Dickins, ensnared in the fifties for all time, believes in the personal fascism and beauty of all Australians, sees the tragedy in treacle, miracles in lengths of old tin. God almighty in alcohol he writes lies about truth; jokes about death too much, and is edgy, paranoid and a pretty fair kick of the footy.
The Crookes of Epping encapsulates all of Dickins' obsessions; a fair go, madness and jest of pub talk, the insolence and dignity of working class watercolourists and the belief in life after Australia.
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| author: Don Crick | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1972 | publisher: Gold Star Publications | | content type: book | description: What makes a young man of twenty years risk public ridicule or scorn to avoid fighting? Is it cowardice or bravery, stupidity or sanity, principle or wrong-headedness?
A Different Drummer is not a political essay, but a powerful novel about the conscience of Australian youth.
In Australia today (1972) hundreds of young men are fighting against conscription. Many have gone into hiding, some have gone to jail. A Different Drummer is about one of them.
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| author: Eleanor Dark | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1980 c.1941 | publisher: Fontana | | content type: book | | description: The Timeless Land (1941) is a work of historical fiction by Eleanor Dark (1901–1985). The novel The Timeless Land is the first of The Timeless Land trilogy of novels about European settlement and exploration of Australia. The narrative is told from English and Aboriginal points of view. The novel begins with two Aboriginal men watching the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1788.
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| author: Kenneth Cook | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1973. c.1961 | publisher: Penguin Books | | content type: book | | description: The gargantuan flavour of the Australian outback, its sick heat and its people. Like quicksand their animal customs, their animal women, their perverts and their stupendous, overpowering hospitality drag innocent, city-bred John Grant down to his ruin - and beyond.
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| author: Jon Cleary | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1968, c.1952 | publisher: Fontana Books | | content type: book | | description: The Carmodys lived in the outback. For years they had been travelling around, Paddy taking jobs as a shearer or a drover for a few months, always moving on when the urge took him. But Ida, his wife, was beginning to want a place of their own to settle down in. Their search for it lands them in many exciting adventures and brings them into contact with some of the most memorable characters in fiction.
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