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A C P Pub Pty Ltd. Very Good. 8.23 x 0.28 x 11.02 inches. Paperback. 2002. 119 pages. <br>About Australian Women's Weekly: Australian Wome n's Weekly cookbooks have enjoyed more than two decades of succes s. Available in 100 countries and a dozen different languages, th ese books Australian Women's Weekly Standard Format Series have s old more than 2 million copies in Canada. Their amazing success r ests on three points: the recipes are for today's food, the dishe s are quick and simple to make, and each recipe has been triple-t ested, guaranteeing that it works the first time, and every time. Editorial Reviews About the Author Founded in 1933, Australi an Women's Weekly has long been enjoyed by both women and men in Australia and worldwide. At more than 70 years in print, it conti nues to be one of the leading women's magazines with over 3.2 mil lion readers. Internationally known for its cookbooks, Australian Women's Weekly also offers informative articles on gardening, ho me living, fashion, and parenting. </div ., A C P Pub Pty Ltd, 2002, 3, Australia: Viking. Good. Hardcover. 2007. 710 pages. wear, faded spine & marks to dj minor wear to book< br><br><p><strong>THE PERSIMMON TREE</strong><br /><br />by Bryce Courtenay<br /><br />Viking, Australia, 2007<br />ISBN 978067007 0701<br />royal hb, dj, 710pp<br /><br />GOOD: wear, faded spine &amp; marks to dj; minor wear to book<br /><br />The persimmon tr ee is a symbol of life, a heartwood that will outlast everything man can make...It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Dunc an is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a singl e exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer b y the day, Nick falls in love with the intoxicating Anna van Heer den. Their time together is brief, as both are forced into separa te, dangerous escapes. They plan to reunite and marry in Australi a but it is several years before their paths cross again, scarred forever by the dark events of a long, cruel war. In The Persimmo n Tree, Bryce Courtenay gives us a story of love and friendship s et against the dramatic backdrop of the Pacific during the Second World War.</p> ., Viking, 2007, 2.5, Fremantle Press. Very Good. 130 x 196 x 30mm. Paperback. 2010. 358 pages. Text tanned.<br>Looking at the views and experiences o f three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained within Australi a's indigenous culture. Sally Morgan traveled to her grandmother' s birthplace, starting a search for information about her family. She uncovers that she is not white but aborigine-information tha t was kept a secret because of the stigma of society. This moving account is a classic of Australian literature that finally frees the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing the m to tell their own stories. ., Fremantle Press, 2010, 3, Chatto & Windus. Good. 190mm / 130mm. Paperback. 1984. 156 pages. Cover worn<br>Reviews Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in the suburbs of Adelaide, Australia, in the 1950s i s difficult, particularly when your father is dead and your hardw orking mother has little time to spend with you. The narrator (wh ose name we never learn) of this sensitive and persuasive coming- of-age story tells of her struggle to become an artist and break out of the mold that a pk chauvinistic, class-conscious society h as shaped for her. Her classmates laugh because she's shy and art istic. Teenage boys ignore her because she isn't like other girls , ``kewpie dolls'' with ``chubby pink faces'' and ``wide eyes wit h a peek-a-boo stare.'' At the local technical high school, where she studies commercial art, the girls of her background dislike her for dreaming (`` `Zombie,' said the sports captain when she s aw me coming''); at Teacher's College in the city, where she trai ns later as an art instructor, the students from ``classy private schools'' treat her like a ``trespasser.'' Hanrahan, an Australi an novelist and artist, depicts the alienation and yearnings of c reative young adults with poignancy, shrewd irony and humor. (Dec .) ., Chatto & Windus, 1984, 2.5, St Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press. Good. #REF!. Paperback. 1997. 448 pages. Cover worn. Name on ffep<br>Oscar Hopkins is a high-st rung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Lep lastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author P eter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists ' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, d enied the heavenly fruit of a Christmas pudding by his cruelly st ern father, forever renounces his father's religion in favor of t he Anglican Church. Dear God, Oscar prays, if it be Thy will t hat Thy people eat pudding, smite him! Lucinda's childhood traum a involves a beautiful doll bought by her struggling mother with savings from the jam jar; in a misguided attempt to tame the doll 's unruly curls, young Lucinda mutilates her treasure beyond repa ir. Neither of these coming-of-age stories quite explains how the grownup Oscar and Lucinda each develop a guilty passion for gamb ling. Oscar plays the horses while at school, and Lucinda, now an orphaned heiress, finds comfort in a game of cards with an odd c ollection of acquaintances. When the two finally meet, on board a ship bound for New South Wales, they are bound by their affinity for risk, their loneliness, and their awkwardly blossoming (but unexpressed) mutual affection. Their final high-stakes folly--tra nsporting a crystal palace of a church across (literally) godfors aken terrain--strains plausibility, and events turn ghastly as Os car plays out his bid for Lucinda's heart. Yet even the unconvinc ing plot turns are made up for by Carey's rich prose and the tale 's unpredictable outcome. Although love proves to be the ultimate gamble for Oscar and Lucinda, the story never strays too far fro m the terrible possibility that even the most thunderstruck lover s can remain isolated in parallel lives. We have a great novelis t living on the planet with us, and his name is Peter Carey. --Lo s Angeles Times Book Review The stuff of shimmering transparent f antasy, held together by the struts of 19th-century history and t he millions of painstaking details. --Time A kind of rollercoaste r ride . . . .The reader emerges . . . gasping, blinking, reshape d in a hundred ways, conscious that the world is never going to l ook the same again. --The Washington Post Book World Carey luxuri ates in language . . . . [Oscar & Lucinda is] a brilliant success . --San Francisco Chronicle It is Thomas Wolfe one is reminded of most when reading Peter Carey . . . they share that magnificent vitality, that ebullient delight in character, detail and languag e that turns a novel into an important book. --The New York Times Book Review [Oscar & Lucinda] is very, very hard to put down. Th ere are many pleasures to be had here, chief among them the autho r's gift for telling fascinating, entertaining stories . . . . Li ke the characters of Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac, Mr. Ca rey's creations are real in the simplest human sense. --Washingto n Times A commanding writer with laser eye for detail and luxuria nt narrative gifts. --Wall Street Journal Peter Carey is to Sydne y what Joyce was to Dublin . . . an absolute master of language a nd storytelling. --Thomas Keneally Carey can write. He is funny, humane, and profound. --The Literary Review (London) The well of talent from which Peter Carey draws his tales produces work as sw eet and refreshing as a mineral spring . . . . Carey nears the su mmit occupied by Borges and Pynchon and a very few others. --Harl an Ellison [Carey] works a literary territory all his own, combin ing elements of absurdism, black humor, social satire and old-fas hioned family saga . . . a pleasure. --Miami HeraldFrom the eBook edition. Reviews If Illywhacker astounded us with its imaginat ive richness, this latest Carey novel does so again, with a maste rly sureness of touched added. It's a story, in a sense the story , of mid-19th century England and Australia, narrated by a man of our time and therefore permeated with modern consciousness. Osca r is a shy, gawky, Oxford-educated Church of England minister wit h a tortured conscience; Lucinda is a willful, eccentric Australi an who sinks her family inheritance into a glass factory; and the basis for the star-crossed love that develops between them is a shared passion for gambling. They meet on the boat to Sydney, Osc ar becomes Lucinda's lodger after being defrocked for his ``vice' ' and, finally, leaving a trail of scandal behind them, they cons truct a glass church in the Outback, their wildest gamble yet. Th e narrative techniques though which Carey dramatizes the effects of English religious beliefs and social mores upon frontier Austr alia smack of both Dickens and of Fowles's The French Lieutenant' s Woman; but he doesn't lean upon his sources, he uses them, for his own subtle and controlled purposes. His prose (full of such f lashes as ``A cormorant broke from the surface, like an improbabl e idea tearing the membrane between dream and life'') is an almos t constant source of surprise, and he is clearly in the forefront of that literary brilliance now flowing out of Australia. 30,000 first printing; $35,000 ad/promo. (May) If Illywhacker astounde d us with its imaginative richness, this latest Carey novel does so again, with a masterly sureness of touched added. It's a story , in a sense the story, of mid-19th century England and Australia , narrated by a man of our time and therefore permeated with mode rn consciousness. Oscar is a shy, gawky, Oxford-educated Church o f England minister with a tortured conscience; Lucinda is a willf ul, eccentric Australian who sinks her family inheritance into a glass factory; and the basis for the star-crossed love that devel ops between them is a shared passion for gambling. They meet on t he boat to Sydney, Oscar becomes Lucinda's lodger after being def rocked for his ``vice'' and, finally, leaving a trail of scandal behind them, they construct a glass church in the Outback, their wildest gamble yet. The narrative techniques though which Carey d ramatizes the effects of English religious beliefs and social mor es upon frontier Australia smack of both Dickens and of Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman; but he doesn't lean upon his sourc es, he uses them, for his own subtle and controlled purposes. His prose (full of such flashes as ``A cormorant broke from the surf ace, like an improbable idea tearing the membrane between dream a nd life'') is an almost constant source of surprise, and he is cl early in the forefront of that literary brilliance now flowing ou t of Australia. 30,000 first printing; $35,000 ad/promo. (May) W e have a great novelist living on the planet with us, and his nam e is Peter Carey. --Los Angeles Times Book Review The stuff of shimmering transparent fantasy, held together by the struts of 19 th-century history and the millions of painstaking details. --Ti me A kind of rollercoaster ride . . . .The reader emerges . . . g asping, blinking, reshaped in a hundred ways, conscious that the world is never going to look the same again. --The Washington Po st Book World Carey luxuriates in language . . . . [Oscar & Lucin da is] a brilliant success. --San Francisco Chronicle It is Thom as Wolfe one is reminded of most when reading Peter Carey . . . t hey share that magnificent vitality, that ebullient delight in ch aracter, detail and language that turns a novel into an important book. --The New York Times Book Review [Oscar & Lucinda] is ver y, very hard to put down. There are many pleasures to be had here , chief among them the author's gift for telling fascinating, ent ertaining stories . . . . Like the characters of Charles Dickens and Honor de Balzac, Mr. Carey's creations are real in the simple st human sense. --Washington Times A commanding writer with lase r eye for detail and luxuriant narrative gifts. --Wall Street Jo urnal Peter Carey is to Sydney what Joyce was to Dublin . . . an absolute master of language and storytelling. --Thomas Keneally Carey can write. He is funny, humane, and profound. --The Litera ry Review (London) The well of talent from which Peter Carey draw s his tales produces work as sweet and refreshing as a mineral sp ring . . . . Carey nears the summit occupied by Borges and Pyncho n and a very few others. --Harlan Ellison [Carey] works a litera ry territory all his own, combining elements of absurdism, black humor, social satire and old-fashioned family saga . . . a pleasu re. --Miami Herald From the eBook edition. ., University of Queensland Press, 1997, 2.5, Éditions Olizane, 1991. in8. 1991. Couverture rigide. 326 pages., Éditions Olizane, 1991, 0<