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1 y separately published work icon The Road Back Erich Maria Remarque , ( trans. A. W. Wheen )expression Boston : Little, Brown , 1931 Z1479496 1931 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Unscheduled Flight Hugh Atkinson , London : Hart-Davis, MacGibbon , 1976 Z815710 1976 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Crack-Up Hugh Atkinson , London : Hart-Davis, MacGibbon , 1974 Z815704 1974 single work novel
7 64 y separately published work icon The Middle Parts of Fortune : Somme and Ancre, 1916 Frederic Manning , London : Piazza Press , 1929 Z572961 1929 single work novel war literature

'The drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great waves of sound, and hurrying them onwards to crash in surf on the enemy entrenchments. The windless air about them, by its very stillness, made that unearthly music more terrible to hear.

'First published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, The Middle Parts of Fortune was hailed by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Lawrence of Arabia and Ernest Hemingway, as an extraordinary novel. Its author was in fact Frederic Manning, an Australian writer who fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and who told his story of men at war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Most Savage Animal Hugh Atkinson , New York (City) : Simon and Schuster , 1972 Z474050 1972 single work novel
3 y separately published work icon The Man in the Middle Hugh Atkinson , London : Hart-Davis, MacGibbon , 1973 Z815707 1973 single work novel crime
2 9 y separately published work icon Cattleman R. S. Porteous , Sydney London : Australasian Publishing Co. Harrap , 1960 Z211165 1960 single work novel
4 12 y separately published work icon The Half-Burnt Tree Dymphna Cusack , London : Heinemann , 1969 Z41725 1969 single work novel
2 y separately published work icon Agency House, Malaya The Girl in the Cheongsam 'Susan Yorke' , New York (City) : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy , 1962 Z1510725 1962 single work novel crime romance thriller
1 2 y separately published work icon White Coolies Betty Jeffrey , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1954 Z1232458 1954 single work autobiography The experiences of an Australian Army Nursing sister in the hands of the Japanese during World War II. (Libraries Australia)
1 y separately published work icon Never Die in Honolulu Ian Hamilton , Philadelphia : Lippincott , 1969 Z405615 1969 single work novel crime detective
1 8 y separately published work icon Court of Honour : A Novel Geoff Taylor , London : Peter Davies , 1966 Z266152 1966 single work novel war literature

A hair raising story set in the final days of WWII.
5 y separately published work icon The Deep Reaches of Space A. Bertram Chandler , London : Herbert Jenkins , 1964 Z810943 1964 single work novel science fiction
— Appears in: Cosmo : I Capolavori della Fantascienza , 1 December no. 76 1967; (p. 3-116)

The Deep Reaches of Space has undisguised autobiographical elements in having as its protagonist a seaman turned science-fiction writer who travels to the future and uses his nautical experience to save a party of humans stranded on an alien planet. Chandler also has as his central character George Whitely, the name he occasionally used as a pseudonym.

After an injection of lysergic acid, Whitely finds himself inhabiting the body of Peter Quinn, Second Officer of the interstellar liner Lode Maiden. His mind, however, is still that of his former self. When a magnetic storm throws the spaceship into the deep reaches of space Quinn's body somehow retains enough knowledge to help Whitely land the ship on an unnamed planed on the Galactic Rim...

'where new horrors and dangers wait..'

[Source: www.bertramchandler.com]
1 1 y separately published work icon Gold in the Streets D'Arcy Niland , London Melbourne : Horwitz , 1959 Z248199 1959 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon 8th Annual of the Year's Best Science Fiction 8th Annual Edition : The Year's Best SF; The Best of Sci-Fi No. 4 Judith Merril (editor), New York (City) : Simon and Schuster , 1963 Z1856960 1963 anthology short story science fiction Collects 28 stories by authors such as Gerald Kersh, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Jack Finney, John Brunner, Bertrand Russell, J.G. Ballard, Poul Anderson, Zenna Henderson and A. Bertram Chandler.
1 5 y separately published work icon Ben Hall : The Bushranger Frank Clune , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1947 Z121601 1947 single work novel historical fiction
3 4 y separately published work icon Call Me When the Cross Turns Over D'Arcy Niland , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z92489 1957 single work novel 'The Cross that turns over is the Southern Cross, telling wanderers under the vast skies of Australia of the passing of night and the coming of dawn. This is the story of one of these wanderers, Barbie Cazabon, who finds herself, in her early twenties, left alone by the death of her father. Knowing no background but the rough, knockabout existence she has shared with him, she has to make her own way and build a life for herself out of loneliness.' (Source: 1957 edition)
4 5 y separately published work icon The Witch's Thorn Ruth Park , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1951 Z91396 1951 single work novel
8 1 y separately published work icon Kundu : A Novel Morris West , New York (City) : Dell , 1956 Z528050 1956 single work novel

'In a valley deep in the highlands of New Guinea lives a small colony of Europeans. One of them is Kurt Sonderfield, a doctor with a shady past who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

N'Daria is a hauntingly beautiful native girl whom Sonderfield has trained in the art of seduction. Kumo is a young sorcerer who has fallen under Sonderfield's sway. Only two dare oppose Sonderfield: the old French missionary Pere Louis, and Gerda, the wife Sonderfield has betrayed.

'As the passions and power plays of the Europeans collide with ancient highland magic, the beat of the kundu drums thunders through the valley, bringing the story to an explosive climax.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).
15 17 y separately published work icon The Shiralee D'Arcy Niland , London Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1955 Z248011 1955 single work novel
— Appears in: Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1973; 'Probably no swagman, in life or in fiction, ever had such a strange companion on his wanderings as has Macauley, the central character in D'Arcy Niland's first novel, who tramps through the back towns of New South Wales accompanied by his daughter Buster. Buster, four-year-old bundle of loyalty and fortitude, combines these more adult qualities with a natural childishness...Buster is no joy to Macauley, and he treats her with an uncompromising firmness: she must go on walking when she is nearly exhausted, must stop chattering when he wants to be quiet, must not complain. But Macauley has, too, a certain grudging affection for her, and this affection develops until it is so threatened by circumstances that it must at last be openly admitted.' (Source: dustjacket, 1955 Angus and Robertson edition)
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