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9 43 y separately published work icon Come in Spinner Florence James , Dymphna Cusack , North Ryde : Pacific Books , 1981 Z846941 1951 single work novel The action revolves largely around the Hotel South Pacific where the girls and the 'occupying' American troops meet in the vestibule, while upstairs in the Marie Antionette beauty salon the attendants Deb, Guinea and Claire, each with her own complicated romantic entanglement, work long hours to disguise the shortcomings of their rich, fat clientele. A book sharply observant of the new era ushered in by WWII.
1 9 y separately published work icon The Advancement of Spencer Button Brian James , North Ryde : Pacific Books , 1974 Z89154 1950 single work novel

'Bringing all the power and richness of his tale as a short story writer to this, his first novel, Brian James creates an unforgettable picture of a man who always did the right thing.

Spencer Button is a hero who completely lacks heroic qualities. At heart he is romantic and likes to cut a good figure; but he is conventional, careful and ambitious, and timidity and circumstance relentlessly mould him. The chief enemy to his development as a human being is, in fact, the Public Service - an ogre he has served since boyhood; and the assiduity with which he studies his advancement in the Department destroys him as a man. For Spencer Button is a State school teacher.

Iron humour and a fine sense of the ridiculous both make and heighten the tragedy that is Spencer Button. This is the unspectacular tragedy of everyday life, infinitely moving when realized. But upper-most is the irresistible humour of characters like Auntie May and Uncle Fred, of episodes like the inspection of Selkirk school and the coming of the new music master to Simmons Street.

Brian James has a penetrating grasp of character and an astonishing range of mood. Off-setting portraits of exquisite absurdity are scenes that are masterly in their macabre pathos: The downfall of Winnie Ogg, the object of Spencer's first romance; the disintegration of Mr Foll who sacrifices himself to his son's career. Spencer's courtship of Susie, their marriage and its formal banality, his discovery of the warmth and vitality he has missed - these are so acutely drawn as to be almost painful in their reality.

Pedagogic grievances and ambitions, jealousies and snobberies, eternal and never-changing, are shown against a panorama of Australian life from the nineties to the present day. It is an impressive picture of infinite variety, an arresting and challenging story that never fails as entertainment.' (Publisher's blurb)

2 1 y separately published work icon Grey Gladiator : H.M.A.S. Sydney with the British Mediterranean Fleet George Johnston , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1971 Z972304 1941 single work non-fiction
1 2 y separately published work icon The Wide Brown Land : A New Selection of Australian Verse Douglas Stewart (editor), Sydney : Pacific Books , 1971 Z521555 1971 anthology poetry
2 96 y separately published work icon Seven Poor Men of Sydney Christina Stead , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1971 Z461354 1934 single work novel (taught in 18 units)

'Seven Poor Men of Sydney is a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s amid conditions of poverty and social turmoil.

Set against the vividly drawn backgrounds of Fisherman's (Watson's) Bay and the innercity slums, the various characters seek to resolve their individual spiritual dilemmas; through politics, religion and philosophy.

Their struggles, their pain and their frustrations are portrayed with consummate skill in this memorable evocation of a city and an era.' (Publication summary)

2 3 y separately published work icon Forever to Remain E. V. Timms , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z161400 1948 single work novel historical fiction adventure 'The Swan River Settlement was in its infancy when the London Lass set sail with its cargo of emigrants to this strange new world. Proud or humble, adventurous or ambitious, those who rubbed shoulders in this perilous journey were so diverse that their passions and frustrations were bound to end in more than one human tragedy...it is a colouful gallery, implicit with the drama of conflicting personalities. High adventure is the keynote of this story of a fateful journey to Western Australia.' (Back cover.)
1 3 y separately published work icon The Fury E. V. Timms , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z161098 1954 single work novel historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon Out of the Smoke : The Story of a Sail Ray Parkin , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z1201039 1960 single work autobiography
1 17 y separately published work icon Here's Luck Lennie Lower , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z1174152 1930 single work novel humour (taught in 1 units)
1 1 y separately published work icon A Second Helping Elizabeth O'Conner , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z872294 1969 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Into the Smother : A Journal of the Burma-Siam Railway Ray Parkin , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z865512 1963 single work autobiography
5 3 y separately published work icon Long Pig Russell Foreman , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z364160 1958 single work novel historical fiction
1 6 y separately published work icon A Curate in Bohemia Norman Lindsay , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z302497 1913 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Robina E. V. Timms , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z297908 1958 single work novel historical fiction
1 14 y separately published work icon Halfway to Anywhere Norman Lindsay , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z286591 1947 single work novel
1 13 y separately published work icon Tell Morning This Kylie Tennant , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1970 Z251317 1967 single work novel
1 14 y separately published work icon Dead Men Rising : A Novel Kenneth Mackenzie , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1969 Z182740 1951 single work novel war literature Fictional account of the Cowra breakout during the Second World War.
1 1 y separately published work icon The Challenge E. V. Timms , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1969 Z161200 1952 single work novel historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon Smithy : The Kingsford-Smith Story Ward McNally , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1969 Z1303714 1966 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Monday at McMurdo David Burke , Sydney : Pacific Books , 1969 Z809244 1967 single work novel
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