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| Author | : Michael Wilding |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
49 stories ranging over 120 years. Stories reflect life in Australia from the early days of hardship to the recognition of a multicultural society and the new agendas for women's, gay and lesbian, and Aboriginal writing.
| Author | : ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited |
| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 718 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1459624874 |
The best of the best This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcas...
| Author | : Maxine Beneba Clarke |
| Publisher | : Black Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2017-11-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1925435903 |
In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country’s leading literary talents. Herself an award-winning short-story writer, Beneba Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with experience and truth, and celebrate the art of storytelling. Previous contributors include Kate Grenville, Tony Birch, David Malouf, Kirsten Tranter, Anna Krien, Georgia Blain, Peter Goldsworthy, Fiona McFarlane, Elizabeth Harrower, Ryan O’Neill and Romy Ash. Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. In 2015 her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the ABIA for Best Literary Fiction and the Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her critically acclaimed memoir, The Hate Race (2016), was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Stella Prize. She is also the author of a picture book, The Patchwork Bike (2016), several poetry collections, and is a contributor to the Saturday Paper.
| Author | : Cate Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Black Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2011-11-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1921870443 |
In The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy presents the most outstanding short fiction of the past year.
| Author | : Marcia Kay Vaughan |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Press |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Animals |
| ISBN | : 9781743622575 |
In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his wombat stew, and the result is a stew the dingo will never forget!
| Author | : Jim Haynes |
| Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2013-08-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1743314396 |
Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond . an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.
| Author | : Charlotte Wood |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-11-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781863958868 |
This anthology brings together Australia's most striking literary talents and provides a platform for those unpublished gems. This year Stella Prize-winning author Charlotte Wood takes the helm, putting together yet another enchanting collection.
| Author | : Patrick White |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2011-01-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1446435075 |
Eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women. A girl beset by her mother's influence, who marries her father's friend. . . A young man strangely moved into marriage with a girl like the mother who never understood him. . . A pretty market researcher who learns the ultimate details of love with a difference. . . The collector of bird-calls who unwittingly records the call of a very human nature.
| Author | : Kate Grenville |
| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1459620011 |
'Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury. Increasingly obse...
| Author | : Laurie Hergenhan |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2015-11-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0702258008 |
Henry Lawson · Barbara Baynton ·Henry Handel Richardson · Katharine Susannah Prichard · Christina Stead ·Gavin Casey ·Vance Palmer · Alan Marshall · Marjorie Barnard ·Judah Waten · John Morrison · Peter Cowan · Hal Porter · Patrick White · Thelma Forshaw ·Dal Stivens · Peter Carey Murray Bail · Frank Moorhouse · T.A.G. Hungerford · Elizabeth Jolley · Michael Wilding · Olga Masters · Beverley Farmer · Fay Zwicky · Barry Hill · Gerald Murnane · Archie Weller · Thea Astley · Helen Garner · Lily Brett · Susan Hampton · Gail Jones In this bestselling collection the Australian short story is represented from its Bulletin beginnings to its vigorous revival in the late twentieth century.
