Australian Fiction Books at Dial a Book Sydney

Queen Trucanini
Cato, Nancy and Vivienne Rae Ellis.
Book Number: 64100
ISBN:
Publisher: Heinemann, London, 1976.
8vo. hardcover. 256pp. Very good+, light toning to endpapers. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $20.00

Ancestors
Davidson, Robyn
Book Number: 63822
ISBN: 022402583X
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1989
8vo hardcover 314pp. very good / very good d/w with creased front flap. Lucy has returned to the isolated house in the Australian rainforest where she was raised by the ferociously loving and eccentric Aunt Laura. She had yearned for the fabulous world that lay beyond the jungle, but even there she could not escape the ancestral ghosts and so returns to confront them.
Price: $8.00

Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger.
Mittelbach, Margaret
Book Number: 63779
ISBN: 1920885943
Publisher: Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2005.
8vo. softcover. b/w ilus. Very good.
Price: $12.00

One for the Road, Australian Short Stories. Combined Edition
Lindsay, Hilarie.
Book Number: 63603
ISBN: 0909245290
Publisher: Sydney: Ansay, 1978.
Square 8vo. laminated boards hardcover. b/w illus. Very good, presentation bookplate on fep. Books 1-8.
Price: $15.00

The Crooked Stick or Pollie's Probation
Boldrewood, Rolfe
Book Number: 63133
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co, 1895.
8vo. hardcover. 339pp. Good, light foxing, heavier on endpapers, some light damage to cloth, cover rubbed on bottom edge. Macmillan Colonial Library edition.
Price: $25.00

The Girl from Snowy River
French, Jackie
Book Number: 57602
ISBN: 9780732293109
Publisher: Angus and Robertson 2012
8vo. softcover. 343pp. near fine. A brumby muster held under the watchful eye of the legendary Clancy of the Overflow and Flinty must ride to save her farm, her family and the valley she loves.
Price: $9.00

Eminence
West, Morris
Book Number: 24747
ISBN: 0732267048
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd 5/6/1998
8vo. hardcover. 296pp. Another rich story from the Australian master of this Vatican game. . .West spins an intriguing tale. He likes big people and big questions, and Eminence has them.nnFrom Library JournalnA priest spirited to Rome after being tortured by the Argentine military in the '70s finds his faith tested again when the Pope dies and a woman he once loved reenters his life.nnFrom USA TodaynAnother rich story from the Australian master of this Vatican game. . .West spins an intriguing tale. He likes big people and big questions, and Eminence has them.nnFrom Publisher"s WeeklynWest succeeds in balancing contemporary Vatican intrigue and details....[in] this very intriguing novel of papal intrigue.nnFrom Kirkus ReviewsnThe latest ecclesial potboiler by West (Vanishing Point), this one centering on the troubles that await an Argentine cardinal who hopes not to be elected pope. Luca Rossini is a man between worlds. The son of Italian immigrants to Argentina, he now lives in Rome, where his Italian surname can't really conceal the fact that he is on foreign ground in more ways than one. As a young priest, Rossini spoke out against the military junta and its "dirty war" of the 1970sand was nearly killed as a result. Rescued from a squad of assassins by the wife of a senior diplomat, he was smuggled out of the country to the Vatican and has never returned. Now he faces a different sort of trial: the pope he has served for the last 20 years has died, and Rossiniwho was one of the pontiff's closest advisorsis looked upon as a likely successor. Where's the problem, you ask? Well, for one thing, Rossini no longer believes in God. And for good measure, he is still in love with Isabel Ortega, his rescuer, with whom he had a brief affair before leaving Argentina. Now Isabel's husband has been appointed Argentina's ambassador to the Vatican, and he and Isabel are moving to Rome. How can Luca find peace? A rich panoply of colorful typesincluding a crafty servant, an Opus dei prelate, several journalists of middling scruples, and (naturally) the entire College of Cardinalscombines to prove to Luca what he had always feared might not be true: namely, that God writes straight with crooked lineseven if his eraser leaves a smudge or two. Brain candy, to be sure, but who's counting calories? Vaticanologists will be having too much fun figuring out who's who in this aptlytimed romanaclef. very good+. / very good+ d/w.
Price: $10.00

When the mountains change their tune
Stodart, Eleanor.
Book Number: 29404
ISBN: 0454007620
Publisher: North Ryde, NSW Methuen Australia 1985
8vo hardcover 140pp. very good / very good d/w. While skiing in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, four teenagers become lost in a blizzard.
Price: $12.00

Discovering Australia's Northern Territory (We Went For the Doctor)
Roff, Derek
Book Number: 22153
ISBN:
Publisher: Alice Springs, Barker Souvenirs. 1994
4to. hardcover. 79pp. colour illus. fine. / near fine d/w.
Price: $30.00

Humoresque
Scanlon, Herbert
Book Number: 6993
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney n.d.
blue printed wraps. VG 32pp., illustrations by Herb Brewer. One shilling pamphlet of humorous stories by an old soldier. Lightly faded wrapper, otherwise good solid copy, still white.
Price: $12.00

What Became of Them? - Australian Stories for Children
Walter H. Bone
Book Number: 3721
ISBN:
Publisher: Author, Sydney 1952
Limited edition, this one is not numbered. Cloth in d/w. Book has clean pages and no marks, the d/w is good with shelf wear, tear at top of spine but otherwise clean. Illustrations of unusual australian characters by author.
Price: $55.00

Stairways to the Stars
Turner, Lilian (Mrs. F. Lindsay Thompson)
Book Number: 59580
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Ward, Lock: 1913
8vo. green dec. bards, hardcover. 286pp. b/w illus. Very good, light foxing. Presentation inscription on fep. Light fading to spine & cover edge.
Price: $55.00

When the buffalo fight
Alexander, David
Book Number: 33483
ISBN: 0091372801
Publisher: Richmond, Vic. Hutchinson of Australia 1980
8vo hardcover 236pp. very good, light foxing to endpapers, spine slightly slanted. / very good d/w.
Price: $20.00

The Company You Keep
Wilder, Ken
Book Number: 6622
ISBN: 0730589188
Publisher: State Library of NSW Press,, Sydney, 1994 First edition.
Presentation copy to Morris West. Inscribed by author on half-title. "To Morris & Joy with great appreciation Ken". Signed by author on title page. near fine. / very good d/w.
Price: $55.00

The Romance of the Swag
Lawson Henry, Illustrated by Lionel Lindsay
Book Number: 6280
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney, Landsdowne. 1974.
8vo. hardcover. 49pp. woodcuts by Lionel Lindsay. very good. / very good d/w with crease on top edge.
Price: $12.00

The Last Voyage : Captain Cook's Lost Diary
Innes, Hammond
Book Number: 24927
ISBN: 0394505794
Publisher: New York Random House (T) March 1979
8vo hardcover 254pp very good / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00

A Bitch Called Tracy
Gibbs, John
Book Number: 21529
ISBN:
Publisher: Surveys and Market Research March 1975
small 8vo. paperback, covers rubbed and creased. 8 pages of b&w pictures.
Price: $22.00

Dangerous Neighbours
Bird, Ray
Book Number: 59248
ISBN: 9780646522289
Publisher: Self Published 2011 reprinted
8vo. Softcover. 262pp. Signed. Australia is a vast land surrounded by water. To the south, east and west are large oceans. To the north, only a short distance away, is a country with a population ten times greater. Jock Macdonald, a retired SAS major, decides to visit his friend who owns a working cattle property in North Queensland to help him forget the recent loss of his family in England. He becomes involved in the running of the property and the people who live and work there. Following the suspicious death of an Aboriginal stockman and the arrival of Sandra Duncan a freelance journalist the story unfolds and they all become embroiled in Government intrigue, sabotage and saving Australia from invasion.
Price: $14.00

Cunyarra: The North West 1950
Price, Colin
Book Number: 51297
ISBN: 0975219626
Publisher: Qawra Press 2004
8vo softcover 296pp near fine. In 1949, following reports that survivors of German raider Kormoran may have buried politically sensitive files, at Cuvier Bay on the North West Coast of Australia, the Royal Navy sends Sam Lejeunne on paid leave to visit his family's station situated nearby to investigate. Sam flies to Carnarvon where an opportunity presents itself when George Roberts, owner of a coastal station close to the cave where the Germans camped, invites them all to join in excavating the site. The outcome is unexpected.
Price: $14.00

Only the tracks remain
Booth, Jack
Book Number: 37399
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney Alpha Books 1972
8vo hardcover 196pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Signed by author.
Price: $18.00

Women in the background
Humphries, Barry
Book Number: 24830
ISBN: 0855616687
Publisher: Port Melbourne William Heinemann Australia 1995
8vo. hardcover. 326pp. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Rio Grande and other Verse
A.B. Paterson
Book Number: 2423
ISBN:
Publisher: Angus and Robertson 1939
8vo. hardcover. Good copy in poor d/w.
Price: $12.00

Rooms and Houses: an autobiographical novel.
Lindsay, Norman.
Book Number: 44883
ISBN:
Publisher: Ure Smith 1968 First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 318pp. Very good, spine slightly slanted. / Very good clipped d/w rubbed at top of spine
Price: $28.00

One for the Road, Book 6. Australian Short Stories
Lindsay, Hilarie.
Book Number: 6111
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney: Ansay, 1978.
Square 8vo. laminated boards hardcover. 48pp Signed by author. fine.
Price: $8.00

One for the Road, Book 2. Australian Short Stories
Lindsay, Hilarie.
Book Number: 6112
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney: Ansay, 1978.
Square 8vo. laminated boards hardcover. 48pp Signed by author. fine.
Price: $8.00

Of a Boy
Hartnett, Sonya
Book Number: 51737
ISBN: 0670040266
Publisher: Viking, Camberwell, Victoria, 2002. First edition
8vo. hardcover. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

The Far Face of the Moon.
Johnston, George
Book Number: 21259
ISBN:
Publisher: Collins London - Sydney 1st UK edition 1965.
8vo. hardcover. 288pp. very good. / fair, chipped d/w.
Price: $10.00

Australian Women's Stories
Goldsworthy, Kerryn (editor)
Book Number: 55939
ISBN: 0195512952
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Australia, 1999.
Small 8vo. hardcover. 346pp. Near Fine. / Fine d/w.
Price: $10.00

Untold Tales
Malouf, David
Book Number: 56227
ISBN: 9057040166
Publisher: Paper Bark Press 2000
8vo. Hardcover in d/w. 60pp. Fine. / Near Fine d/w.. In the four short narratives collected here, David Malouf explores some of the "untold tales" behind familiar stories - historical, mythic and legendary - while at the same time offering a series of meditations on the role of folktales and story-telling in shaping human lives. In each of these tales, Malouf's own skill as a story-teller is balanced by a poet's feel for language and by a contemplative approach to the ancient craft of narrative invention.
Price: $40.00

Where Cane is King
Murray, Mary:
Book Number: 2210
ISBN: 0533068445
Publisher: New York: Vantage, 1986.
Hard Cover, Very good/Very good d/w, 6.5x9 Brown cloth cover; The story of the Reynolds brothers and their families, and the wide and varied cast that helped settle the tropical region of northern Australia.
Price: $25.00

THE GEORGES' WIFE.
JOLLEY, Elizabeth
Book Number: 1764
ISBN:
Publisher: Ringwood. Viking. 1993
1st ed. . Excellent copy in new conditon. Are we fated to repeat our past mistakes? A novel.
Price: $10.00

Unconditional love
Jochim, Natasha
Book Number: 44620
ISBN: 0975116800
Publisher: Qld. Ninderry Press July 2003 First Edition.
8vo softcover 108pp near fine. Romance. Morgan has escaped her dysfunctional family. Making her new home on the Whitsunday Islands, she reinvents herself. Then Rick arrives.
Price: $15.00

Pillbox : a novel
Langford, Gary
Book Number: 29398
ISBN: 0333414543
Publisher: South Melboune Macmillan 1985
8vo hardcover 228pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

The Goldseekers
Long, William Stuart
Book Number: 30902
ISBN: 086824130x
Publisher: Australia Doubleday 1985
8vo hardcover 383pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $16.50

Cabin Fever
Jolley, Elizabeth
Book Number: 32606
ISBN: 0670831557
Publisher: Ringwood, Vic. Penguin Books Australia Ltd. 1990
8vo hardcover 238pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00

Symmes Hole
Wedde, Ian
Book Number: 33141
ISBN:
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London, 1986
8vo. hardcover. 324pp. very good+. / very good+ d/w.
Price: $18.00

Forty Seventeen
Moorhouse Frank
Book Number: 33500
ISBN: 0670821365
Publisher: Ringwood, Vic. Penguin Books Australia Ltd. 1988
8vo hardcover 175pp. very good, pages browned. / very good d/w. He is a failed writer turned diplomat; an anarchist learning the value of discipline. At the sharp axis of mid-life he scans the memorabilia of his feelings in the hope of giving answers.
Price: $10.00

Miss Herbert: Suburban Wife
Stead, Christina
Book Number: 33649
ISBN: 0860681351
Publisher: London Virago Press 1979
8vo hardcover 308pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $9.00

Loving daughters
Masters, Olga
Book Number: 24532
ISBN:
Publisher: University of Queensland Press 1984
8vo. hardcover. 319pp. very good, / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

The Australian Short Story 1940 - 1980. A Bibliography.
Torre, Stephen.
Book Number: 24071
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney. Hale & Ironmonger, 1984.
8vo. hardcover. 367pp. very good+. / very good+ d/w.'
Price: $8.00

The Keys of Heaven
Grenville Mann. Phillip
Book Number: 7010
ISBN:
Publisher: London. Heinemann, 1966. First edition
8vo. hardcover. 307pp. very good, owner's inscription on fep. foxing to edges. / Fair. chipped & torn d/w.
Price: $10.00

Breakfast Over La Sierra Blanca
Horndardt, Kevin
Book Number: 39309
ISBN: 0207154643
Publisher: Angus and Robertson 1987
8vo. Hardcover in d/w very good, with faded spine. Signed with dedication by the Author, also short po inscription. Novel set in Sydney. This is an hilarious tale of one man's quest for love and money, ( in Tork's case, the two most powerful motivating forces next too a taco surpreme), set in Sydney. Scarce
Price: $10.00

Jane Austen In Australia
Wilson, Barbara Ker
Book Number: 22806
ISBN:
Publisher: Melbourne: Heinemann. 1984
8vo. hardcover. 330pp. near fine. / near fine d/w.
Price: $8.00

The settlers (no. 2 in Australian series)
Long, William Stuart
Book Number: 42617
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney Doubleday 1980
8vo hardcover 591pp. very good, owner's inscription on fep. / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

The explorers (no. 4 in Australian series)
Long, William Stuart
Book Number: 43716
ISBN:
Publisher: Doubleday 1982
8vo hardcover 490pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

My Life as a Fake with limited edition DVD.
Carey, Peter
Book Number: 49855
ISBN:
Publisher: Milson's Point, N.S.W. Random House Australia 2003
8vo hardcover 280pp. comes with limited edition dvd 778/1000, the dvd has an interview with Peter Carey on it. fine / near fine d/w, rough cut page edges, ribbon place marker. Po name stamp on fep. In his remarkable new novel, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey creates a Creature as indelible as Frankenstein's. My Life as a Fake is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, but the leap he takes is into the realms of richly imagined fiction. Sara, an English poetry editor on holiday in Kuala Lumpur, stumbles upon an Australian, Christopher Chubb, reading Rilke in a bicycle shop. The man shows her a scrap of poetry the like of which she's never seen. She becomes determined to get her hands on the poetry, to publish in (and revive) her ailing poetry journal. Chubb insists that Sara hear his story first. His tale is told over many sittings, and is the central story of My Life as a Fake. As a conservative young poet in Melbourne in the 1950s, Chubb decided to teach the country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submitted for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet of raw power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at twenty-four and entirely the product of Chubb's imagination. Not only did the magazine fall for the hoax, but its editor was prosecuted for publishing obscenity. At the trial someone uncannily resembling the man in the faked photograph of the invented McCorkle leapt to his feet. At that moment the horrified Chubb was confronted by the malevolent being he had himself manufactured. Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how the phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to the seedy, sweaty, tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur.
Price: $45.00

Vanishing Points - The Genteel Poverty Bus Company
Thea Astley
Book Number: 6239
ISBN:
Publisher: William Heinemann Australia 1992 First Edition
black boards in d/w - no price printed on d/w. very good condition.
Price: $10.00

Season of Doubt.
Cleary, Jon.
Book Number: 23212
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Collins, 1968. First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 256pp. good+. / good+, slightly faded d/w with creased front inside flap.
Price: $10.00

The Tempest of Clemenza: A Novel
Adams, Glenda
Book Number: 36302
ISBN: 0207179522
Publisher: Pymble, Sydney NSW ; New York Angus&Robertson 1996
Small 8vo hardcover 297pp. very good / very good d/w. From Publishers WeeklynAustralian writer Adams (Dancing on Coral) has a deserved reputation in her home country as a magical storyteller, but her current work, a brave but muddled mishmash of interlocking novels within novels, may not persuade American readers of her talent. Utilizing portentous flashbacks and flashforwards, narrator Abel Chase relates the circumstances of her life, focusing on the day of her teenaged daughter's death and ranging among other memories to reveal the "terrible things in our past"?an unhappy marriage, a vicious kidnapping?that she has withheld from the fatally ill Clemenza. The saga begins and ends in Ludlow, Vt., where Clemenza celebrates her 13th birthday and then succumbs to her illness, but the main events have occurred in Australia. In addition to her own life story, Abel intersperses a diary written in 1956 by an Australian teenager named Cordelia Benn, whose entries suggest a bizarre family secret. Moreover, Cordelia herself was writing a mystery novel whose chapters alternate with her diary (it is authentically naive and correspondingly tedious), and she also includes yet another manuscript?this one quite melodramatic?by a mysterious author. These various narratives give Adams an opportunity to riff on the nature of fiction, but she takes too long to tie the many plot strands together. The denouement leaves many details (such as the nature of Clemenza's illness) annoyingly vague while indulging in truly far-fetched coincidences. Much of this complex novel is imaginative, thoughtful and intelligent, but eventually the plodding passages dealing with Cordelia's life overwhelm the narrative, and one wishes that Adams had jettisoned some of her subplots and had concentrated instead on Abel and Clemenza's tragic tale. nCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.nnFrom Library JournalnLike Russian nesting dolls, the stories within this absorbing and moody novel open to reveal succeeding layers of finely detailed prose. Adams, who won the Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral (Viking, 1987), here gracefully moves the reader through the landscapes of contemporary Vermont, the Australian bush, and a small seaside town as it might have been in 1956. Her heroine is 13-year-old Clemenza, who is dying from an unnamed condition under the loving eyes of the book's central narrator, her mother. With Clemenza and her mother, we weather numerous "tempests" both internal and external: not just thunder on the lake but family anguish and a kidnapping described by a teenaged diarist 30 years earlier. The mother's former husband and the diarist's father are both insufferable in different ways, and the women can be gruff and almost unpleasant. But it is easy to care for the central characters while seeing their faults, and, when all the book's secrets are finally revealed, there is the temptation to resume at the outer layer once more and begin reopening the artful nesting tales. Recommended for most libraries.?Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., Cal.nCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Price: $10.00

Banana Heart Summer
Bobis, Merlinda
Book Number: 42424
ISBN: 1740455908
Publisher: Pier 9, Australia, 2005
8vo. hardcover. 266pp. Fine. / Fine d/w.
Price: $12.00

A Difficult Young Man
Boyd, Martin
Book Number: 55875
ISBN:
Publisher: The Cresset Press, London 1955. first edition.
8vo. hardcover. 276pp. very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $35.00

A Very Private War
Cleary, Jon
Book Number: 33333
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney: Collins, 1980.
8vo. hardcover. 276pp. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

The Bloom is Gone
Barclay John
Book Number: 7004
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1977. First edition.
Signed by author on fep. " For Bill, John Barclay. Aug'98 ". 8vo. hardcover. 211pp. very good+. / very good, lightly chipped d/w.
Price: $10.00

The Golden Sabre.
Cleary, Jon
Book Number: 20868
ISBN:
Publisher: Collins London 1981. 1st edition.
8vo. hardcover. 300pp. very good/very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
Wilde, William H., Joy Hooton, and Barry Andrews
Book Number: 49030
ISBN:
Publisher: Melbourne: Osford University Press, 1991
Large thick 8vo. softcover. 760pp. very good, whiteout mark on fep.
Price: $12.00

Reading Between the Lies
Peters, Lynn
Book Number: 33976
ISBN: 0671010174
Publisher: Simon & Schuster January 1, 1999
8vo softcover 375pp good.
Price: $12.00

Famous Australian news pictures
Gordon, Harry
Book Number: 36070
ISBN: 0333175603
Publisher: South Melbourne, Vic. Macmillan 1975
4to hardcover 112pp b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Rubicon
Hooker, John
Book Number: 28051
ISBN: 0670826979
Publisher: Ringwood, Vic. Viking 1990
8vo hardcover 313pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00