Books from Text Publishing
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The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Text Classics
By Tim Flannery, William Buckley• The extraordinary survival story of William Buckley (1780-1856), ‘the wild white man’, edited and introduced by Tim Flannery • In 1803 convict William Buckley escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, living with the ...
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Terra Australis: Text Classics: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia
By Tim Flannery, Matthew FlindersIn this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia’s greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.
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The Life and Adventures of William Buckley
By Tim Flannery, William BuckleyWilliam Buckley, Tim Flannery John Morgan. The Li FE & A Dov En Tures of THR-Y-wo. YEARs. A wanderER Amongst ABORIGINES or on to UNExPLORED count RY ARound on to INTRODUCED & EDITED EY IIMFLANNERY F TIM LANNERY is Director of the South ...
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F**k, Now There Are Two of You
By Adam MansbachAnother wickedly funny bedtime story for grown-ups from the bestselling author of Go The F**k to Sleep.
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You Have to F**king Eat
By Adam MansbachFrom the author of the international bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep comes a book about the other great parental frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal.
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Our Magic Hour
By Jennifer DownHe'd been too shocked to even consider disputing the decision. Audrey began to sift through emails from the morning. It seemed a long time ago. Her desk phone rang. 'This is Amal Ahmad calling on behalf of Mr Martin Stanley.
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Bodies of Light
By Jennifer DownPrinted and bound in Australia by Griffin Press, part of Ovato, an Accredited ISO AS/ NZS 14001:2004 Environmental Management System printer ISBN: 9781925773590 (paperback) ISBN: 9781925774405 (ebook) A catalogue record for this book is ...
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The Year of the Gadfly
By Jennifer MillerThe Year of the Gadfly is an exhilarating journey of double-crosses, long-buried secrets and all the charge of adolescence, following in the footsteps of classic school novels like Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep and Donna Tartt's The Secret ...
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The Man Who Lost Himself: the Unbelievable Story of the Tichborne Claimant
By Robyn AnnearEarly Gippsland Diaries, Sale, 1973 Lewis, Janet The Wife ofMartin Guerre, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1983 (first published 1941) Loney, J. K. Wrecks on the Gippsland Coast, Marine History, Geelong 1968 McGrath, Dr Helen & Hazel Edwards ...
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The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women in Power
By Geraldine DoogueDespite the occasional Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir or Christine Lagarde, far more men have become legends as leaders: Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Zhou Enlai, Lee Kuan Yew, Mahatma Ghandi, ...
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The Fragments
By Toni JordanMrs Powell faced a dilemma: keep the whole class waiting for another bus or trust Terese and Caddie to wait for an hour until she could return and collect them. Sure enough, in an hour's time they were sitting exactly where they'd been ...
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Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab
By Lucy SussexChesser, Lucy. Parting with My Sex: Cross-Dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2008. Clarke, Patricia. ... Davenport, Sarah. In No Place for a Nervous Lady: Voices from the ...
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Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1987
By Helen GarnerMy enthusiasms, my expectation that others will follow me, lead people to do so against their will: apparently I phrase suggestions in a way that brooks no refusal. When I said 'Let's go to the nude beach on Sunday', my manner made him ...
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The Monsoon Bride
By Michelle Aung ThinSmart & Mookerdum's bookshop was an old-fashioned place with a counter where clerks took down your order and then parcelled up your books and magazines in blue-and-white paper. There were tables covered with displays of novels, ...
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Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family's Long Road to Justice
By Michael MagazanikPsychopath., 1*, *, *: J. Coll. EET, Pract, 1958, 1,398. Hirii- meal. al., 1554. E. 5-5. Msiri. "Lil. It serial is 1*, *, *. HTit. J. PhairTitirril., 1*. His 111. THE DISTILLERS COMPANY (Biochemicals) LIMITED Tili II* lilill I Broadway ...
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Suburbia
By Jeremy ChambersI'm not letting you on a motorcycle with someone I've never met.' Lily continued stirring the runny ice-cream. She watched as it poured off her spoon. 'Darren Wilson doesn't wear a helmet, she said. 'I don't care what this Darren Wilson ...
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Lilian's Story: Text Classics
By Kate GrenvilleThere was a leather - bound copy of William that Father had given me long ago , before he knew that William was not just words . I regretted that , and it must have bubbled heavily , like a desperate drowning person , as he dropped it ...
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The Road to Winter
By Mark Smith'Ah, Warda, my beautiful Warda. Why did you run? I could have looked after you.' Kas is pressed against me. She's heard the voice and knows who it is. Ramage reaches out to Ray—to the baby. 'This is Rose's daughter,' Ray says, ...
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Wilder Country
By Mark Smith'Vashti.' “Describe her.' 'Indian, maybe Sri Lankan, green eyes, short.' Kas looks at me, then back at the fire. 'Okay, I know her. She knows me. So what?' “She says if we find you, we find your sister. She says Warda is a fighter, ...
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The Road to Winter
By Mark SmithSince a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his loyal dog Rowdy for company.