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A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Written as vividly as any of her novels, Ruth Park's autobiography is a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years. Her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand fed her fertile imagination; her convent education encouraged her love of wo ...Show more
Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics by Ruth Park
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This first volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression.She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journalism and began a rel ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The second volume of Ruth Park's autobiography is the tender portrait of her partnership with D'Arcy Niland in life and work. They were two talented, volatile people who shared dreams, disappointments and triumphs.
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics by Ruth Park
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to continue her work as a journalist, newly married to D'Arcy Niland. Determined to earn their living as writers, they submitted story outlines to radio stations, idea for articles to newspapers and accepted whatever freelance jobs came their way. The Har ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The game is called Beatie Bow, and the kids play it for the thrill of giving themselves a scare. It's Beatie Bow, risen from the dead When Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly changes from a harmless little scare to an extraordinary adventure, as she is transported to a place that is strangely familiar ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The game is called Beatie Bow, and the kids play it for the thrill of giving themselves a scare. It's Beatie Bow, risen from the dead When Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly changes from a harmless little scare to an extraordinary adventure, as she is transported to a place that is strangely familiar ...Show more
Swords and Crowns and Rings: Text Classics by Ruth Park
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Jackie Hanna, born with dwarfism, and Cushie Moy, the girl next door, share an innocent love--a love that will be censured, but will persevere. This is the story of the triumph of a special kind of courage. Ruth Park's Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the Great Depression. ...Show more
The Harp In The South - Penguin Australian Classics by Ruth Park
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is scarce and life is not easy. Crammed together within the thin walls of Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street are the Darcy family: Mumma, loving and softhearted; Hughie, her drunken husband; pipe-smoking Grandma; ...Show more
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy ...Show more
The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more
The Muddleheaded Womba HB (Illus. by Robert Ingpen) by Ruth Park
$50.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Wombat and his inseparable friends - the motherly and practical Mouse, and Tabby Cat whose pride, along with his tabby coat, is always being ruffled - were first introduced to children on ABC Radio in the 1950s and became instantly popular. When illustrator Noela Young brought the characters to life on ...Show more
The Muddleheaded Wombat by Ruth Park
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Wombat and his inseparable friends - the motherly and practical Mouse, and Tabby Cat whose pride, along with his tabby coat, is always being ruffled - were first introduced to children on ABC Radio in the 1950s and became instantly popular. When illustrator Noela Young brought the characters to life on ...Show more