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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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1 y separately published work icon The Shepherd's Life : A Tale of the Lake District (International) assertion James Rebanks , Great Britain : Allen Lane , 2015 10663126 2015 single work autobiography
1 1 y separately published work icon Discoveries : The Voyages of Captain Cook Nicholas Thomas , London : Allen Lane , 2003 Z1090968 2003 single work biography
1 8 y separately published work icon The Trial of the Cannibal Dog : Captain Cook in the South Seas Anne Salmond , London : Allen Lane , 2003 Z1060786 2003 single work biography

'In this rich and stylish description by New Zealand scholar Salmond, Cook's voyages take on a peculiar, dreamlike quality. Salmond's claim is that Cook was far more affected by his exposure to the Polynesian world than historians have thought.'

'This book is fascinating as an incomparable travelogue filled with amazing stories – the sexual paradise of Tahiti, the 'discovery' of Hawaii, close relations with Maori, and Cook's tragic death on the beach in Hawaii.The 'trial' of the title followed a horrific incident in New Zealand's Queen Charlotte Sound when Maori killed and ate a boatload of Cook's men. Later, sailors caught a dog guzzling a pink remnant, put the dog on trial, then convicted, cooked and ate it.' (Source: Publisher's website)

1 11 y separately published work icon Archimedes and the Seagle : A Novel David Ireland , Ringwood : Allen Lane , 1984 Z131265 1984 single work novel humour

'The protagonist of this first-person narrative is Archimedes, also called ""Happy,'' an Irish setter who has taught himself to read and write. Archimedes guides the reader through the streets of Sydney, Australia, and expounds on human and dog life. Happy's world includes a Sydney waterfront where humans act like seagulls and seagulls take on human characteristics: there are seagull tourists, seagull art critics and seagull gay-rights activists. The eponymous seagle is different from the other seagulls, spending most of its time soaring like an eagle, and Archimedes admires it from a distance.'

Source: Publisher's Weekly (https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-14-008090-2). (Sighted: 10/01/2018)

1 15 y separately published work icon The Boy Adeodatus : The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard Bernard Smith , Ringwood : Allen Lane , 1984 Z130461 1984 single work autobiography
1 14 y separately published work icon The Cut-Rate Kingdom Thomas Keneally , Sydney : Wildcat Press , 1980 Z547123 1980 single work novel historical fiction '1942 and the world is at war. Australia and its government look to events in Asia with alarm. Political reporter 'Paperboy' Tyson's relationship with Labor Prime Minister, Johnny Mulhall, gives him a privileged insight into the man's ambivalence to war. While the nation struggles to establish its role amidst the far-reaching events of the day, Mulhall finds himself strangely entangled in a personal dilemma no less weighty than the demands of his public role as a ruler in a cut-rate kingdom.' (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
3 32 y separately published work icon White Stag of Exile Thomas Shapcott , Ringwood London : Allen Lane , 1984 Z484210 1984 single work novel
2 30 y separately published work icon Just Relations Rodney Hall , Ringwood : Penguin , 1982 Z541175 1982 single work novel

'The back-of-beyond New South Wales hamlet of Whitey's Fall is the home of a secret, solitary boy seeking love, two young men who crave the same woman, and an earnest, bumbling, and provocative government man.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 27 y separately published work icon Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades Vincent Buckley , Ringwood : Penguin , 1983 Z373991 1983 single work autobiography
1 33 y separately published work icon City of Women : A Novel City of Women David Ireland , Ringwood : Allen Lane , 1981 Z121470 1981 single work novel science fiction 'Billie Shockley is sixty-two, a retired engineer, who lives in the heart of Sydney which is both realistically defined —streets, buildings, parks, and landmarks are named —and futuristically portrayed —it is an embattled city, inhabited entirely by women. Shockley is both lonely and alone. Her narrative is a long, discursive, self-exploratory and explanatory letter to her lost love, a female companion called Bobbie'. Source: untitled review.
1 y separately published work icon Rebels and Precursors : The Revolutionary Years of Australian Art Richard Haese , Ringwood : Allen Lane , 1981 Z1181024 1981 single work non-fiction
1 y separately published work icon The Long Farewell D. E. Charlwood , Ringwood : Allen Lane , 1981 Z811341 1981 single work prose
19 26 y separately published work icon I Can Jump Puddles Alan Marshall , Melbourne : Longman Cheshire , 1955 Z962560 1955 single work autobiography
— Appears in: IA umeiu prygat' cherez luzhi; Eto trava ; V serdtse moem 1969; (p. 13-227)

— Appears in: Moga Da Preskacham Lokvi 1981;

— Appears in: Kumurins un Kamolins; Es protu lekt pari pelkem; Vetras zens 1999;

I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood, a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers and tellers of tall stories, a world held precious by the young Alan Marshall. (Source: Trove)

1 5 y separately published work icon I Am Ned Kelly John Molony , Ringwood : Allen Lane , 1980 Z1018254 1980 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Breaking Out Derek Maitland , London : Allen Lane , 1979 Z1288059 1979 single work novel humour
1 51 y separately published work icon A Woman of the Future David Ireland , Ringwood : Penguin , 1979 Z121783 1979 single work novel

'A Woman of the Future, first published in 1979, was David Ireland’s best-selling sixth novel and his third to win the Miles Franklin Award.

'An imaginative tour de force, it is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt—from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Australian literature.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)

1 4 y separately published work icon Going it Alone : Australia's Identity in the Twentieth Century W. F. Mandle , Ringwood London : Penguin Allen Lane , 1978 Z21108 1978 single work criticism
1 10 y separately published work icon Living Black : Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert Kevin Gilbert (editor), London Ringwood : Allen Lane , 1977 Z100458 1977 single work interview

'Interviews with urban and tribal Aborigines; first hand accounts by Aborigines of their experiences in Australia today.'

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