Yarri and Jackey Jackey sat in the hollowed-out trunk of a huge, old gum tree on the top of Mount Parnassus. They looked down to Gundagai through the heavy rain. The river had swollen and the town was in trouble. But what could they do?
This collection of essays looks at the essential elements of writing poetry and fiction. The diverse range of experienced writers and academics discuss genre, technique, the reader, and publishing. Contributions from Delia Falconer, Marele Day and Marion Halligan.
Collection of writers speeches made at the annual presentations of the New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards from 1980 to 1999. Contributors include Donald Horne, Geoffrey Dutton, Judith Wright, David Williamson, Manning Clark, Dorothy Green, Thomas Keneally, Rosemary Wighton, Morris West, Elizabeth Jolley, Frank Moorhouse, ......
Great writers reveal their minds and creative processes in the journals and notebooks they keep throughout their lives. This work features fascinating extracts from the collections of Henry Handel Richardson, Eric Scott, and A.D. Hope. Most of these have not previously been published.
The Lexicon and Language Guide to Changing Times and Emerging Generation
Everyone says the English language is changing in this global digital age. Everyone says the generations don't understand each other. Word Up is the complete up-todate Australian guide to where our language is headed. Fascinating, colourful, easy to use and full of surprises. Includes a youth lexicon.
Stepmothers are atrocious. Merrillees knew froms torybooks. But meeting her husband-to-be she finds that true love is not just two people in harmony. She has to like his little boy, and fend off an ex-mother with a heroin habit. Will she be squashed into the storybook mould?
A collection of award winning homes from modern times and colonial history of Australian design and architecture. Full of illustrations, plans and a history of each house, providing context and theme. Carefully constructed by housing historian, Tim Reeves.
This book describes the daily scene of heroic adventures most people only see in action movies. Stockmen and heli-musterers who chased wild bulls and buffalo through the unfenced scrub.
Essays on Poetry and Ideas in Contemporary Australia
What has Australia got that gets into the minds of Les Murray, A.D. Hope, Antigone Kefala, Robert Gray, Judith Wright and a stack of other creative geniuses who make it their business to interpret our country for us? Martin Harrison distils years of thoughtful insight in this striking collection of essays.