After The Celebration

After The Celebration PDF Author: Ken Gelder
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522859216
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
After the Celebration explores Australian fiction from 1989 to 2007, after Australia's bicentenary to the end of the Howard government. In this literary history, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman combine close attention to Australian novels with a vivid depiction of their contexts: cultural, social, political, historical, national and transnational. From crime fiction to the postmodern colonial novel, from Australian grunge to 'rural apocalypse fiction', from the Asian diasporic novel to the action blockbuster, Gelder and Salzman show how Australian novelists such as Frank Moorhouse, Elizabeth Jolley, Peter Carey, Kim Scott, Steven Carroll, Kate Grenville, Tim Winton, Alexis Wright and many others have used their work to chart our position in the world. The literary controversies over history, identity, feminism and gatekeeping are read against the politics of the day. Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction: where we have been and what we have become.

The Dying Trade: Text Classics

The Dying Trade: Text Classics PDF Author: Peter Corris
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921921331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377

Book Description
Meet Cliff Hardy. Smoker, drinker, ex-boxer. And private investigator. When the wealthy Bryn Gutteridge hires Hardy to help his sister, it looks as if blackmail is the problem. Until the case becomes more brutal, twisted and shocking than even Hardy could have guessed.

See You at the Toxteth

See You at the Toxteth PDF Author: Peter Corris
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1760871915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
A selection of stories featuring Australia's favourite PI, plus unpublished writing by Peter Corris on crime. For almost four decades Peter Corris was known as 'the godfather of Australian crime fiction', and Cliff Hardy has been Australia's favourite private investigator since he solved his first case in 1980. This selection of stories starts with Cliff's early days driving round Glebe in his battered Falcon, drinking at the Toxteth Hotel and taking on cases that more often than not leave him as battered as his car. As Cliff becomes older and wiser, he prefers to use his head more than his fists, but the cases are as tricky as ever and Hardy's clients lead him to the murkiest surroundings. To further celebrate Peter Corris's legacy, editor Jean Bedford has also included a selection of his columns on the world of crime and crime writing, along with his 'ABC of Crime Writing'. From Adultery to Yeti, via Gumshoe, Hit man and The Mob, this entertaining compendium gives a fascinating insight into Peter's vast knowledge of the genre. Peter Corris was the author of nearly ninety books between 1973 and 2017, forty-two of them featuring the legendary Cliff Hardy PI. Other fiction included the 'Creepy' Crawley and Browning series, along with his non-fiction books, including biographies of Fred Hollows and Ray Barrett, and A Round of Golf with Peter Corris.

Fairy Forest

Fairy Forest PDF Author: Kriss Simone
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847991564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
Sara is only six years old but already she has learnt about some of life's hardships and heartaches.With the loss of her brother, her parent's separation, and now having to endure life with her neglectful drunken and abusive mother, she also has to contend with being bullied by 'them girls' in school.... and out of it.But, by accident Sara discovers another world in the forest at the end of her road.Things she had thought were only in stories and make believe where as real as you or I.A commune of fairy folk take Sara into their hearts, and with their wisdom protection and love Sara's life becomes bearable once more.The fairies she befriends bestow comeuppance on her tormentors in a mischievous but none dangerous way in order to teach them the error of their ways. So with a mix of sadness, mystery, humour and spiritual uplifting this book is a must for everyone's child and the child in everyone.

Narrow Gauge Railways of North Wales

Narrow Gauge Railways of North Wales PDF Author: Andrew Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
With stunning photographs and detailed decriptions, this book explores the history and use of the 12 narrow gauge lines of North Wales, including the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno.

Hunters and Collectors

Hunters and Collectors PDF Author: Tom Griffiths
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Book Description
Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Dr Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and investigators of the Australian land and of its indigenous inhabitants contributed a sense of identity at colony-wide and eventually nationwide level. He also considers the rise of professional history, anthropology and archaeology in the universities, which ignored the efforts of the amateurs. Griffiths shows how the seemingly trivial activities of these hunters and collectors feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s. This book is outstanding in its originality, interpretative insight and literary flair.
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