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1 8 y separately published work icon Burnt Sugar F. E. Baume , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1934 Z212457 1934 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Men Need Armour W. L. Power , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1934 Z1366263 1934 single work novel

'Tristram Clerring, a young man of independent means, satiated with the type of life he has been living, and suffering from the effects of an unsatisfactory love affair, seeks some panacea for the restlessness of his own spirit.

'He seeks it on a rough tramp steamer travelling from Sydney to London, in platonic friendship, and ultimately pursues it on a cruise on the Aegean Sea, among the strongholds of an ancient civilisation which he had studied and deeply admired.

'His caique is wrecked, and he finds himself cast up on an island, the entire population of which are lunatics, except for the doctors and staff at the settlement.

'This part of the story reveals very fine imaginative writing not devoid of irony, particularly in the case of the man, Adam.

'In Rosalind, niece of Dr. Dawes, one of the superintendents at the settlement, Tristram finds the answer to all the troublous searchings that had beset his mind and heart, and women will find his reflections on this conclusion to all his searching rather interesting.'

Source:

'Men ... Need Armour', Australian Women's Weekly, 29 December 1934, p.14.
2 1 y separately published work icon Songs of the Plains Francis Humphris Brown , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1934 Z115499 1934 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon The Moving Finger Alice Meagher , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1934 Z113365 1934 single work novel historical fiction ' A murder story; originating in Surrey; refers to migration to Victorian goldfields in 1850 and station life and work in the Western District. ' E. Morris Miller, Australian Literature From Its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 793. ' A story of four generations fittingly celebrating Victoria's one hundredth birthday.' Publisher's blurb on the cover.
1 2 y separately published work icon Blood in the Mists John Halpin , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1934 Z1114002 1934 single work autobiography
1 2 y separately published work icon These Glorious Crusaders : a contemporary novel Kurt Offenburg , ( trans. C. J. Brennan )expression Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1934 Z919413 1934 single work novel 'The story of These Glorious Crusaders relates to the German book-trade, as conducted for their own profit by the "bibliophiles" and publishers. It exposes not only the frauds of those who took advantage of the 1914-18 war but also the vanity of ambition, as seen in the career of Ruben Erzmann, a Jewish commercial traveller who rose to the position of the most powerful influence in the trade...' (R.G.H. Southerly 10.4, 1949, p. 218).
1 2 y separately published work icon Green Grey Homestead 'Steele Rudd' , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1934 Z359460 1934 single work novel
1 2 y separately published work icon Half-Caste F. E. Baume , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z212249 1933 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Savages and Sinners John Maitland , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z1340047 1933 single work novel This work is described by Miller as presenting 'social and economic phases of life in mandated territories of the Northern Pacific and the sex-attitudes of whites and blacks'. The dedication and the author's note suggest that it is a fictionalised re-telling of a diary kept by a Captain Tyarki. Whether this captain is an actual figure or a fictional persona is unclear.
1 3 y separately published work icon Two Minutes' Silence : A Play Two Minutes' Silence Leslie Haylen , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z858685 1933 single work drama
2 1 y separately published work icon The Game Darrells The Game Darrells : A Novel Leslie Haylen , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z576645 1933 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Pathways of the Sky E. M. Baily , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z557024 1933 single work novel
1 6 y separately published work icon The Giraffe's Uncle Les Robinson , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z458179 1933 selected work short story humour
1 2 y separately published work icon Tropic Equations : A Tale of the South Seas Don Gordon , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z38294 1933 single work novel

A contemporary review (otherwise negative) offers the following synopsis:

IN 'Tropic Equations' (The Macquarie Head Press, Sydney, 6s net), Mr. Don Gordon has essayed a parallel between the native mind and the white. His backgrounds are New Guinea and Sydney, and he tells the story of Donald Fraser, a trader, his wife Ethel and their adventures and amours. Ethel is on a recuperative trip to Sydney and life in the Hotel Australia transforms her into something of a social butterfly. Donald pursues his gloomy path back in New Guinea, where there is Another Woman, and there is considerable hotch potch about native rites so dear to writers of tropic lands. Apparently Donald was a witch doctor in his spare time.

Source:

'An Island Story', Daily News [Perth], 20 January 1934, p.16.
1 y separately published work icon Retribution : The Adventures of a Dope Dealer as Related to Edgar A. Gornall Edgar A. Gornall , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z296563 1933 single work novel
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