The Best Australian Stories

The Best Australian Stories
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...

The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories
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.

The Best Australian Stories 2017

The Best Australian Stories 2017
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.

The Best Australian Stories 2011

The Best Australian Stories 2011
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.

The Best Australian Bush Stories

The Best Australian Bush Stories
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.

The Best Australian Stories 2016

The Best Australian Stories 2016
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.

Great Australian Outback Teaching Stories

Great Australian Outback Teaching Stories
Author: Bill Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1460702115

From beyond the black stump to the Australian Alps; in schools on stations, missions, mines and over the air, it takes a special kind of person to be an outback teacher. Back then, not only did we have to teach the three Rs but also sewing, arts and craft, music, physical education - you name it. Plus there were the duties of gardener, cleaner, nurse, registrar, office administrator, free milk dispenser, librarian and, on occasions, school bus driver. Oh, and in one school I was even responsible for 'mother craft'. And being male and just nineteen, as I was at the time, you might imagine my surprise when a young girl asked me, 'Sir, what's the best milk for babies?' Master storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled the width and breadth of Australia to bring together yet another memorable collection of stories. This time he has met with many of our extraordinary outback teachers and their students whose recollections so perfectly capture those special days of growing up in the bush.

A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists

A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists
Author: Jane Rawson
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1921924535

It is 1997 in San Francisco and Simon and Sarah have been sent on a quest to see America: they must stand at least once in every 25-foot square of the country. Decades later, in an Australian city that has fallen on hard times, Caddy is camped by the Maribyrnong River, living on small change from odd jobs, ersatz vodka and memories. She's sick of being hot, dirty, broke and alone. Caddy's future changes shape when her friend, Ray, stumbles across some well-worn maps, including one of San Francisco, and their lives connect with those of teenagers Simon and Sarah in ways that are unexpected and profound. A meditation on happiness – where and in what place and with who we can find our centre, a perceptive vision of where our world is headed, and a testament to the power of memory and imagination, this is the best of novels: both highly original and eminently readable.

A Constant Hum

A Constant Hum
Author: Alice Bishop
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1925774600

A young and exciting new literary voice, emerging from one of Australia’s worst natural disasters

The Floating Garden

The Floating Garden
Author: Emma Ashmere
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781742199368

"This ... novel evokes the hardships and the glories of Sydney's past and tells the little-known story of those made homeless to make way for the famous bridge"--Back cover.