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Midnite: Story of a Wild Colonial Boy by Randolph Stow
Category: Children's Fiction
Even though MIDNITEwas seventeen, he wasn't very bright. So when his father died, his five animal friends decided to look after him. Khat, the Siamese, suggested he became a bushranger, and his horse, Red Ned, offered to help. But it wasn't very easy, especially when Trooper O'Grady kept putting him in ...Show more
The Girl Green as Elderflower: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
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The Land's Meaning: New Selected Poems by Randolph Stow
Category: Gift
In The Land's Meaning, John Kinsella brings together selected works of one of Australia's finest modernist poets. Including previously uncollected pieces, the volume's wide-ranging introduction provides a rich context for the work of this extraordinary and important poet in the most comprehensive collec ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins by Randolph Stow
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years later, he has changed and the old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea - The Play by Andrew Ross; Dickon Oxenburgh; Randolph Stow (Based on a novel by)
Category: Classics
A semi-autobiographical account of Rob Coram's growth from the age of six to fourteen, in the West Australian coastal town of Geraldton, and its surrounding pastoral districts, in the 1930s and l940s.
The Suburbs of Hell: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
'His eyes are on the one eye of the rifle. His mouth splits open his brown beard. He throws up a hand, palm outward, in an unwilled, futile gesture to ward off death.' A killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed i ...Show more
To the Islands: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Behind the uneasy trees rose the hills, and beyond them again the country of the lost, huge wilderness between this last haunt of civilization and the unpeopled sea. Exhausted and losing faith, an Anglican minister flees his mission in Australia's northwest for the vast emptiness of the outback. In the ...Show more
To the Islands: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1958 by STOW RANDOLPH
Category: Accessories
Set in the desolate outback landscape of Australia's north-west, the novel tracks the last days of a worn-out Anglican missionary. Fleeing his mission after an agonising confrontation, he immerses himself in the wilderness, searching for the islands of death and mystery.
Tourmaline by STOW RANDOLPH
Category: Classics
Tourmaline is an isolated Western Australian mining town - a place of heat and dust, as allegorical as it is real. Out of the desert staggers a young diviner, Michael Random, offering salvation to this parched town.
Tourmaline: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
There is no stretch of land on earth more ancient than this. And so it is blunt and red and barren, littered with the fragments of broken mountains, flat, waterless. Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic diviner Michael ...Show more
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