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'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth Cracknell Three of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the South...

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Ruth Park's classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia's greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: unclipped dj (9s.6d.net). Boards: square and clean; binding remains tight. 272pp. In the cramped, sun-baked slums of...

Ruth Park's Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the midst of the Great Depression. Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie...

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Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: Wear and tearPages: FEP missing Markings: Previous ownerMissus is a novel by Ruth Park that explores the life of a woman in Australia during the early...

Author: Ruth Park Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 A fresh new edition of a timeless classicAges: 4+ Josh is a little boy who likes to make faces. He practises...

A thrilling adventure story for children and young adults by Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow follows Abigail as she is swept back to the Sydney of a hundred years ago...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA warm and nostalgic work of autobiographical fiction, Pink Flannel chronicles a chapter in...

Edition: 3rd impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA warm and nostalgic work of autobiographical fiction, Pink Flannel chronicles Ruth Park's early years as a young...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterful collection of supernatural and ghost stories, Things in Corners presents Ruth Park's singular talent...

The game is called Beatie Bow and the children play it for the thrill of scaring themselves. But when Abigail is drawn in, the game is quickly transformed into an...

Author: Ruth ParkBinding: HardbackPublisher: Readers Book Club, 1959Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsOne-A-Pecker Two-A-Pecker presents a delightful journey into the world...

Who was the laughing, half-demented man in the mirror of the vintage car? What was the creature guarding Willy's aunt's house? Or the pulsing, jelly-like blob in the corner of...

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The captivating tale of time travel and adventure as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series 'It's Beatie Bow - risen from the dead!' The...

A fresh new edition of a timeless classicAges: 4+ Josh is a little boy who likes to make faces. He practises his scary faces every day. If only Josh had...

'Adele Parks consistently writes banger after banger, and Our Beautiful Mess might just be her best yet. Addictive and brilliant' Lisa Jewell 'Had me gripped from beginning to end. Masterfully...

'Adele Parks consistently writes banger after banger, and Our Beautiful Mess might just be her best yet. Addictive and brilliant' Lisa Jewell 'Had me gripped from beginning to end. Masterfully...

Gaskell's moving story of a fallen woman's path to redemption Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by...

Author: Steph Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Will the truth burn them both? 'Masterful.' - Ruth...

Arlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: Juliet, enraged at the victory...

Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the...

Henry Stanfield is pleased with his new title: 'Truth Commissioner' has a pleasing ring to it. But his neutrality, as the product of an Irish Catholic mother and an English...

The fourteenth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down....

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Jackie Huggins, Is That You, Ruthie? is a remarkable memoir that recounts, with characteristic humour and honesty, a...

Author: Lucy Foley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 *The No.1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller* Discover the electric new thriller from the No.1, million-copy bestseller,...

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Often compared to Graham Greene, Australia's highest-selling author, Morris West was considered the first Australian author to truly crack the overseas market and he was also the first to create...

'An extraordinary story.' Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from...

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Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments...

One of the less familiar of Mrs. Gaskell's novels, Ruth was in its own time a cause celebre which not only contributed substantially to its author's growing reputation but also...

Author: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg-"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly...

Everyone has their cross to bear - their swag, their shiralee - and for Macauley, walking across New South Wales in search of work, it is his young daughter who...

In the early 1950s, the Berkshire Constabulary finally opened its ranks to more women. And WPC Crockford was one of those early pioneers... When 21-year-old Gwendoline Crockford signed up to...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Ruth Rendell Format: Paperback Number of Pages:

IT'S TIME TO GIVE THOSE SKINNY B!TCHES A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY 'You'll be up and running in no time at all' - Grazia Is there a large arse-shaped dent...