Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

A unique collection of original Australian bush ballads and the stories that inspired them - in the tradition of Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. This is a wonderful celebration of the Australian bush and the people who live there, written by a gifted storyteller who has spent much of his life wo...

In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Australia where she is engaged in long-established collaborations of mapping, storytelling, and placemaking.

Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devasting vision of modern civilization between the two world wars. -- back cover.

A classic among Australian autobiographies, The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony is regarded as Hal Porter's masterpiece. Recreating the rhythms of small-town life between the wars, it covers the author's first two decades. From the sensuality of his early boyhood experiences, Porter travels ever...