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Chapters (21)
  1. Cover
  2. Bio (Robin Klein)
  3. Bio (Simmone Howell) / Also By Robin Klein
  4. Title Page
  5. All the Bells Rangby Simmone Howell
  6. Dedication
  7. Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
  8. Chapter 1
  9. Chapter 2
  10. Chapter 3
  11. Chapter 4
  12. Chapter 5
  13. Chapter 6
  14. Chapter 7
  15. Chapter 8
  16. Chapter 9
  17. Chapter 10
  18. Chapter 11
  19. Chapter 12
  20. POSTSCRIPT
  21. Text Classics

P.S. At the airforce show they were handing out things like showbags, and they had these little silver badges in them (well, not silver, I guess, only plastic). They’re like those badges people get when they learn to fly. When you get back home, maybe I’ll give it to you as a medal. But I’ll have to wait and see.

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Glenda Adams

Introduced by Susan Wyndham

The True Story of Spit MacPhee

James Aldridge

Introduced by Phillip Gwynne

The Commandant

Jessica Anderson

Introduced by Carmen Callil

Homesickness

Murray Bail

Introduced by Peter Conrad

Sydney Bridge Upside Down

David Ballantyne

Introduced by Kate De Goldi

Bush Studies

Barbara Baynton

Introduced by Helen Garner

Between Sky & Sea

Herz Bergner

Introduced by Arnold Zable

The Cardboard Crown

Martin Boyd

Introduced by Brenda Niall

A Difficult Young Man

Martin Boyd

Introduced by Sonya Hartnett

Outbreak of Love

Martin Boyd

Introduced by Chris Womersley

When Blackbirds Sing

Martin Boyd

Introduced by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

The Australian Ugliness

Robin Boyd

Introduced by Christos Tsiolkas

The Dyehouse

Mena Calthorpe

Introduced by Fiona McFarlane

All the Green Year

Don Charlwood

Introduced by Michael McGirr

They Found a Cave

Nan Chauncy

Introduced by John Marsden

The Even More Complete

Book of Australian Verse

John Clarke

For the Term of His Natural Life

Marcus Clarke

Introduced by Rohan Wilson

Diary of a Bad Year

J. M. Coetzee

Introduced by Peter Goldsworthy

Wake in Fright

Kenneth Cook

Introduced by Peter Temple

The Dying Trade

Peter Corris

Introduced by Charles Waterstreet

They’re a Weird Mob

Nino Culotta

Introduced by Jacinta Tynan

Aunts Up the Cross

Robin Dalton

Introduced by Clive James

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

C. J. Dennis

Introduced by Jack Thompson

Careful, He Might Hear You

Sumner Locke Elliott

Introduced by Robyn Nevin

Fairyland

Sumner Locke Elliott

Introduced by Dennis Altman

The Explorers

Edited and introduced by

Tim Flannery

Terra Australis

Matthew Flinders

Introduced by Tim Flannery

Take Me to Paris, Johnny

John Foster

Introduced by Peter Craven

Afterword by John Rickard

Owls Do Cry

Janet Frame

Introduced by Margaret Drabble

In the Memorial Room

Janet Frame

Introduced by Simon Van Booy

My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

Introduced by Jennifer Byrne

Such Is Life

Joseph Furphy

Introduced by David Malouf

The Fringe Dwellers

Nene Gare

Introduced by Melissa Lucashenko

Cosmo Cosmolino

Helen Garner

Introduced by Ramona Koval

The Last Days of Chez Nous
& Two Friends

Helen Garner

Afterword by Laura Jones

Wish

Peter Goldsworthy

Introduced by James Bradley

Dark Places

Kate Grenville

Introduced by Louise Adler

The Idea of Perfection

Kate Grenville

Introduced by Neil Armfield

I Saw a Strange Land

Arthur Groom

Introduced by Robyn Davidson

The Quiet Earth

Craig Harrison

Introduced by Bernard Beckett

Down in the City

Elizabeth Harrower

Introduced by Delia Falconer

The Long Prospect

Elizabeth Harrower

Introduced by Fiona McGregor

The Catherine Wheel

Elizabeth Harrower

Introduced by Ramona Koval

The Watch Tower

Elizabeth Harrower

Introduced by Joan London

Out of the Line of Fire