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    The Acolyte

    Thea Astley

    Jack Holberg is a blind musician and composer from Queensland who becomes world famous. Paul Vesper, ‘the acolyte’ of the title, tells the great man’s story-and his own-in this dark…

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    Beachmasters

    Thea Astley

    On Kristi, a tiny Pacific island jointly ruled by France and England, a group of half-castes, native Melanesians, and sympathetic colonials grab for independence and Gavi Salway, grandson of an…

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    A Descant for Gossips: UQP Modern Classics

    Thea Astley

    In this classic story of small-town life, two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. For as long as Vinny Lalor could remember…

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    Hunting The Wild Pineapple

    Thea Astley

    Leverson, the narrator at the centre of these stories, calls himself a ‘people freak’. Seduced by north Queensland’s sultry beauty and unique strangeness, he is as fascinated by the invading…

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    The Fiction of Thea Astley

    Susan Sheridan

    Thea Astley is one of the outstanding Australian fiction writers of the twentieth century. Four of her novels, including her last, Drylands (1999), won the prestigious Miles Franklin prize, and…

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    Its Raining In Mango

    Thea Astley

    Wresting his family from the easy living of 19th-century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. They confront…

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    Reaching Tin River: Text Classics

    Thea Astley,Jennifer Down

    A young Australian woman, the daughter of an American musician, looks back on the people and forces that shaped her life.

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    Drylands: Text Classics

    Thea Astley

    A powerful tale of a small town destinies shaped by violence, debts and disappointments. From one of Australia’s most respected and acclaimed novelists.

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    The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow: Text Classics

    Thea Astley

    A study in the psychology of isolation, and a portrait of the constant violence between white and black Australians, still alive today.

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    A Kindness Cup: Text Classics

    Thea Astley,Kate Grenville

    An Australian town is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary. But one man is intent on reminding the town of its brutal past.

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    Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds

    ‘This landmark contribution to Australian literary studies is the first collection of critical responses to the work of one of our most important novelists, Thea Astley.

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    Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds

    This second edition includes an updated bibliography. Astley’s signature is a highly allusive, layered and self-conscious prose style, non-linear and open-ended (Gillian Whitlock, JASAL: Journal of Association for the Study…

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    Thea Astley: Selected Poems

    Cheryl Taylor (Editor)

    The first published collection of poetry by literary legend Thea Astley

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    The Well Dressed Explorer

    Thea Astley

    Pompous, vain and a self-professed charmer, George Brewster moves from one unfulfilling journalism job to the next, one empty relationship to another, his faithful wife and daughter ever the afterthought…

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    Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather

    Karen Lamb

    Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather is the long-awaited biography of one of Australia’s most beloved authors.

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    Drylands

    Thea Astley

    In the bleak outback town of Drylands, Janet Deakin runs a newsagency and writes a novel for the world’s last reader.

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