Author: Louisa C. Silke
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Shag and Doll, and other stories
Author: Louisa C. Silke
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories
Author: Joy Dettman
Publisher: Pan Australia
ISBN: 174334564X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The complete short stories of the bestselling author of Mallawindy and the Woody Creek series "Pure brilliance. This is a book to keep and treasure - you'll want to read it again and again." Sun-Herald At the beginning of her writing journey, Joy Dettman's charming, irascible, melancholy, wisecracking characters appeared in over twenty unique tales, many of which have won awards, many of which have never been published. Now, for the first time, Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories is the complete collection of Joy Dettman's exquisite short stories. We meet an old coot in a rusty ute who picks up a hitchhiker, a neighbour reaches across the language divide to lend a helping hand, a grave digger might just have saved a young man's life, an exhausted farmer's wife lusts after a china cup, Granny Jordan is losing her marbles and an author is troubled by rats under the floorboards. Since Joy's first novel, Mallawindy, was published in 1998 she has attracted a growing number of readers who are entertained and shocked by her array of unforgettable characters populating the Australian landscape. "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" The Age Fans of Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker will love Joy Dettman.
Publisher: Pan Australia
ISBN: 174334564X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The complete short stories of the bestselling author of Mallawindy and the Woody Creek series "Pure brilliance. This is a book to keep and treasure - you'll want to read it again and again." Sun-Herald At the beginning of her writing journey, Joy Dettman's charming, irascible, melancholy, wisecracking characters appeared in over twenty unique tales, many of which have won awards, many of which have never been published. Now, for the first time, Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories is the complete collection of Joy Dettman's exquisite short stories. We meet an old coot in a rusty ute who picks up a hitchhiker, a neighbour reaches across the language divide to lend a helping hand, a grave digger might just have saved a young man's life, an exhausted farmer's wife lusts after a china cup, Granny Jordan is losing her marbles and an author is troubled by rats under the floorboards. Since Joy's first novel, Mallawindy, was published in 1998 she has attracted a growing number of readers who are entertained and shocked by her array of unforgettable characters populating the Australian landscape. "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" The Age Fans of Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker will love Joy Dettman.
Aunt Lucia's Locket, and Other Stories. [Reprinted from "The Quiver".]
Author: Ruth Mitchell
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Publisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Children's own paper, ed. by uncle Gilbert
Author: Gilbert (uncle, pseud)
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The little folks' Sunday book
Author: Christian Redford
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Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The Children of the Court, and Two Little Waifs. [With Illustrations.]
Author: Frederic Morell Holmes
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Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Madge and her friends; or, Living unto others
Author: Mary Frances A. Tench
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The giant's cradle, by S.T.A. Radcliffe, and other stories
Author: S. T. A. Radcliffe
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Little Flotsam, and other tales
Author: Robert Richardson (B.A.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Stories of the Tower
Author: Mary Wilson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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