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Маккалоу К., Неприкрытая жестокость. роман — 2012
1968 год. Жители маленького университетского городка в ужасе. Садист-насильник по прозвищу Додо снова и снова выходит на улицы, чтобы поиздеваться над очередной жертвой. С каждым разом он становится все более жестоким и однажды решается на убийство. Капитан Дельмонико отмечает закономерность: Додо нападает на женщин только раз в три недели. Но что им движет? И почему маньяк нарушил свой "график" лишь раз - когда городок потрясло другое загадочное преступление?
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White P., The Eye of the Storm — 1977
Patrick White wanted a great film industry for Australia and wanted his films to be part of it. From the time Voss made him a big figure in the writing world in the late 1950s, there were always plans in the air to film one or other of the big novels. To his immense chagrin it never happened. Not in his lifetime. His ambition has now been realised in his absence, not with the project always closest to his heart - Voss - but the novel of an old woman's dying, which he conceived round his mother's opulent death in London in the 1960s, attended by a retinue of expensive servants. I can't imagine anything he would have enjoyed more in the last years of his life than watching Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush and Charlotte Rampling tear their way through The Eye of the Storm. White thought his novels were made to be filmed. ''I have a wild dream,'' he told his cousin as he was writing The Tree of Man, ''in which I see it done as I can see it, without regard for expense or public.'' Those would be the ground rules he set for himself, rules that powered - and complicated - his film ambitions: a big budget to realise a very personal vision and ''the right person'' to pull it off. He has them all at last for The Eye of the Storm.
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McCullough C., The Thorn Birds — 1978 (International Bestseller #1)
Now, 25 years after it first took the world by storm, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback returns to enthrall a new generation. As powerful, moving, and unforgettable as when it originally appeared, it remains a monumental literary achievement—a landmark novel to be read . . . and read again!
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Маккалоу К., Слишком много убийств — 2011
1967 год. Маленький университетский городок Холломен потрясен жестокой серией убийств. Неизвестный преступник оставил за собой за сутки двенадцать трупов... Маньяк? На это указывает многое. Но капитан Дельмонико уверен: кто-то просто выдает вполне продуманное, мотивированное преступление за "работу" серийного убийцы. Подбор жертв выглядит случайным, - но именно эта случайность и настораживает Кармайна. Кто же из жертв действительно был нужен убийце? Проститутка или крупный бизнесмен? Студент или профессор? Банкир или домохозяйка? Тихая пенсионерка, скромная уборщица, кто-то из троих школьников, юная красавица? Расследование начинается...
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Уэйкфилд С. А., Ляпики и злохвосты. [Для детей : Пер. с англ.] — 1994
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Джордан Т., Плюс один. роман — 2010 (Одиночество простых чисел)
Главная героиня романа австралийки Тони Джордан не похожа на нас с вами.Она считает.Считает буквы в своем имени, шаги до ближайшего кафе, маковые зернышки на кусочке апельсинового торта, шетинки зубной щетки и рисинки на тарелке.Она считает, потому что ... боится.Боится страшного мира вокруг
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Циолкас К., Пощечина. [роман] — 2010
Это был обычный пикник возле обычного дома в пригороде Мельбурна, на котором собрались совсем обычные люди. И ничто не предвещало того, что совсем скоро случится то, что случилось. Один из гостей, взбешенный поведением чужого трехлетнего ребенка, отвешивает ему полновесную пощечину. И отзвук этой пощечины читатель обнаружит в каждой строчке романа признанной звезды современной австралийской литературы Кристоса Циолкаса. «Пощечина» — яркий, захватывающий роман о любви, о браке, о родителях и детях, о чувствах и страстях, о том, из чего складывается современная семья. А также о том, какие дороги мы выбираем, какую ответственность несем, какой жизнью живем, какое общество строим и какое будущее готовим себе и своим детям. «Пощечина» — это портрет современного среднего класса со всеми его особенностями, устремлениями и страхами. Это — острое провокационное произведение о природе таких понятий, как верность, счастье, истина, компромисс, ответственность, выбор, откровение, прозрение, убеждение, вина.
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Wakefield S.A., Gumbles in Summer — 1979
It was hot in the bush and everythung was sizzling - especially the bottersnikes, who hated drought almost as much as they hated rain. The heat made them restless and mutinous... What would really make things better was a new king! Clever Chank poisons the bad-tempered old King and takes over himself - only to be out-smarted by the giggly Gumbles and their dry-water swimming pool. Globnsnorg are sure that joint rulers are what Bottersnikes need - one to do the bossing and one to do the bawling - until their reign is ended by those interfering Invisigumbles! But worse was to come... Oh, if only they had a proper King, and could catch those silly, slippery Gumbles or, best of all, feel a cool breeze again...
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Wakefield S.A., Bottersnikes and Gumbles — 1984
Deep in the bush live some very strange creatures... Bottersnikes have green, wrinkly skin, cheese-grater noses and long, pointed ears that go red when they're angry. Gumbles, on the other hand, are cheerful and friendly and can be squashed into any shape without being hurt at all. This was handy for the Bottersnikes who, with cries of 'GOT YOU!', grabbed the Gumbles and popped them into jam tins, ready to be taken out and put to work whenever anything needed doing around the Bottersnikes' rubbish-dump home. So began the battle between the Gumbles, who kept on escaping from jam tins, and the Bottersnikes who kept capturing them again. The trouble with Gumbles, is that when they go giggly the're silly enough for anything...
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Oswald D., The Return of the Baked Bean — 1990
When Gina Terrific's best friend Rhonda deserts her and her father falls in love, she decides she has to get away. Swept along in a runaway caravan, Gina finds herself hijacked by a frustrated surfie, Waxhead. She has to think fast to get herself out of some hair-raising and hilarious predicaments in her quest to be a Tragic Girl of Mystery...
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Lindsay H., One for the Road. Australian Short Stories — 1978
In this series the Author carries on a long tradition of ahort stories in the Australian Manner, tapping a rich vein of humour and pathos, reflecting the Australian way of life over the past fifty years.
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Richardson H.H., The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.The Way Home — 1971 (Penguin Modern Classics)
The second in Henry Handel s trilogy, The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney. A study of disillusionment. Mahoney, having bought a medical practice on the south coast of England, discovers that his years in the colonies have alienated him from provincial English society. He returns to Australia and prosperity. A second visit to Europe, a Grand Tour, is cut short by the failure of his financial affairs, and Mahoney is called abruptly, and finally, to Australia.
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Richardson H.H., Australia Felix — 1975
The first in Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy, The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney. Mahoney s personal history is closely interwoven with the history of the colony of Victoria at the time of the Ballarat Gold Rush. Colonial life, although the source of his prosperity, becomes for Mahoney the prime cause of an incurable dissatisfaction with his lot. The trilogy is continued in The Way Home, and then Ultima Thule.
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Richardson H.H., Ultima Thule — 1981
1929. Ultima Thule is the final volume in Henry Handel Richardson's (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson) The Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy. It is without question Richardson's most important work. Her brilliant analysis of human inadequacy, of the gulf between the ideal and achievement, and of the complexities of circumstance, environment and human frailty, make her one of Australia's most distinguished novelists. In The Fortunes of Richard Mahony she brings together knowledge of a significant period of Australian history, an understanding of human weakness, and a grasp of the principles and techniques of the best European and Russian writers of the nineteenth century. Ultima Thule opens with Mahony's financial ruin and explores the complete disintegration of his personality. The Australian countryside at its worst takes on almost human shapes of menace and hostility, and Mahony is finally broken as much by the country of his exile as by his own morbid sensitivity.
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Stead C., The Man Who Loved Children — 1975
Neglected - unbelievably - for nearly thirty years, Chrisitna Stead's The Man who loved Children is an astonishing account of the decline of an American bourgeois family. Intimate, accurate and savagely funny, it is also unforgettably moving. The cover shows a detail from 'The Blue Doll' by Alton Pickens, in the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
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My Brilliant Career — 1981
A few months before I left Australia I got a letter from the bush signed "Miles Franklin", saying that the writer had written a novel, but knew nothing of editors and publishers, and asking me to read and advise. Something about the letter, which was written in a strong original hand, attracted me, so I sent for the MS., and one dull afternoon I started to read it. I hadn't read three pages when I saw what you will no doubt see at once--that the story had been written by a girl. And as I went on I saw that the work was Australian--born of the bush. I don't know about the girlishly emotional parts of the book--I leave that to girl readers to judge; but the descriptions of bush life and scenery came startlingly, painfully real to me, and I know that, as far as they are concerned, the book is true to Australia--the truest I ever read.
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Stewart M., Henry Goes Green — 1990
Just when his romance with Voula was blossoming, Henry had to move to the country. His mum's new boyfriend, Jake, is a vegetarian environmentalist who sings folksongs and makes lentil stews. Henry is unimpressed by this lifestyle, and he misses Voula terribly. But life goes on... It's not until an accident, and a surprise visit to Melbourne, that Henry has a chance to see Voula again, and also to realise that his attitudes towards his new home have changed... This funny love story is the third book in the Henry and Voula series.
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Stow R., To the Islands — 1983
A work of mesmerising power, against a background of black-white fear and violence, To The Islands journeys towards the strange country of one man's soul. Set in the desolate outback landscape of Australia's north-west, the novel tracks the last days of a worn-out Anglican missionary. Fleeing his mission after an agonising confrontation, he immerses himself in the wilderness, searching for the islands of death and mystery.
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Stow R., Visitants — 1979
Set on a Papuan island in 1959, this is a tale of magic and mystery.
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Wakefield S.A., Gumbles on Guard — 1984
Bottersnikes are very unpleasant creatures. They live in rubbish heaps on the outskirts of the Australian bush and grumble and mutter their ways through life. With green wrinkled skin and ears that burn red with anger they are off-putting to the most charitable of characters, even the Gumbles who also live in the bush. Gumbles are squashy, shape-changing creatures who spend much time protecting weaker creatures than themselves particularly birds. Bottersnikes devote a great deal of energy to hunting down Gumbles, squashing them into old jam tins and releasing them only to act as slaves. Bottersnikes and Gumbles introduces the two species and each chapter is a separate episode in the attempts to capture and escape. Gumbles on Guard tells especially of the Gumbles' attempts to protect a lyre-bird chick from both the fox and the Bottersnikes.
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![Уэйкфилд С. А., Ляпики и злохвосты. [Для детей : Пер. с англ.] — 1994](/searchcat/covers/RGUB-BIBL-0000729081-large.jpg)
![Циолкас К., Пощечина. [роман] — 2010](/searchcat/covers/RGUB-BIBL-0000642145-large.jpg)
