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- y Ma and Pa : My Childhood Memories Sydney : Ure Smith , 1963 Z276963 1963 single work biography humour
- y The Yarns of Billy Borker Sydney : Reed , 1965 Z507069 1965 selected work short story humour From inside cover blurb: "The stories themselves are the mellow stuff of modern Australian folklore; many of them are probably true in origin but coloured and polished by innumerable repetitions. There are stories of crooked raffles, grand pianos mysteriously gone astray, the World's Worst Worryer, cures for Acid Stomach - and a score of other irreverent, irrelevant, time-consuming, free-beer earning lessons in improbability".
- y Mad as Rabbits Z1210280 1962 single work novel humour A 'humorous story of a girl growing up in a large family on a farm in the Victorian Wimmera'.
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y
Little and Orphan
London
:
Constable
,
1954
Z990610
1954
single work
novel
humour
Set in the Yorkshire town of Hesling's childhood, this is a fictional autobiography of his family, home town and early years.
- y A Treasury of Australian Humour Bill Wannan (editor), Melbourne : Lansdowne , 1960 Z17777 1960 anthology poetry short story humour
- y Boobs in the Bush Dee Why : Ure Smith , 1973 Z1322946 1973 single work novel humour
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H.20y Lantana Lane London Sydney : Collins , 1959 Z23397 1959 single work novel
'We have lived round the corner from the world, with not even a signpost to betray our whereabouts. and if the treasure we have accumulated makes no show upon our bank statements, neither is it subject to income tax.'
Lantana, bushy and massive, is Australia's most uncontrollable tropical weed. Inland from the Pacific coast, where the pineapple plantations grow, sprawls the lantana in all its luxuriance. Here, too, putting up constant fight against the weed, is the small farming community of Lantana Lane. Though they stoutly declare that farming means drudgery, misery, penury, monotony, bankruptcy and calamity - that it is, in short, a mug's game - they are all firmly and happily wedded to the land, and therefore, naturally, to the lantana. From Aunt Isabelle, part-pioneer, part-Parisienne, to Nelson the one-eyed kookaburra bird, each of the Lane's inhabitants makes their own inimitable contribution to this engaging and witty portrait of community life.Source: Allen & Unwin https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/fiction/Lantana-Lane-Eleanor-Dark-9781743313367
Sydney : Ure Smith , 1966 -
H44y Age of Consent London : Werner Laurie , 1938 Z287363 1938 single work novel Sydney : Ure Smith , 1973
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y
They're a Weird Mob
Sydney
:
Ure Smith
,
1957
Z54863
1957
single work
novel
humour
(taught in 2 units)
'Who the hell’s Nino Culotta. That’s what you asked yourself when you first picked up this book, wasn’t it? Well I’m Nino Culotta. My father baptised me Giovanni—John—well Giovannino is like Johnny, and Nino is an easier way of saying it. Or a lazier way, if you like.
'Just off the boat from Italy—the north—Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he’s never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking.
'They’re a Weird Mob is an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear for the Australian way with words.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
Sydney : Ure Smith , 1964 - y The Dinkumization and Depommification of an Artful English Immigrant Sydney : Ure Smith , 1963 Z331228 1963 single work autobiography humour Sydney Wellington : Ure Smith Reed , 1964
- y Why Can't the English? Sydney : Ure Smith , 1959 Z1392206 1959 single work autobiography travel humour Sydney : Ure Smith , 1964
- y The Cousin from Fiji Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1945 Z286488 1945 single work novel Sydney Wellington : Ure Smith Reed , 1965
- y The Best of Lennie Lower Cyril Pearl (editor), Melbourne : Lansdowne , 1963 Z200604 1963 selected work prose humour Sydney : Ure Smith , 1965
- y A Treasury of Australian Humour Bill Wannan (editor), Melbourne : Lansdowne , 1960 Z17777 1960 anthology poetry short story humour Sydney : Ure Smith , 1965
- y Saturdee Sydney : Endeavour Press , 1933 Z287070 1933 single work novel humour Sydney : Ure Smith , 1966
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y
Redheap
London
:
Faber
,
1930
Z1095992
1930
single work
novel
'Australian authors who published in London were occasionally caught in the Customs’ censorship net when their books were sent to Australia. One such was Norman Lindsay, whose novel Redheap was published by the prestigious London firm of Faber. In 1930, acting on a tip-off from London, a Customs official discovered 2000 copies in Sydney, bound for bookshops throughout Australia.
'The novel was described as containing ‘serious reflections on the morality’ of a fictitious Australian country town that bore a striking resemblance to Creswick, where the author spent his childhood. In 1930, the minister announced that the novel was a prohibited import. It was the first time an Australian novel had been banned. There were protests about the ban and Lindsay was quoted in the press as saying that if such actions were allowed to continue, there ‘could be no hope of culture here’.
'Redheap remained on the prohibited list until 1958, though it was freely available in Britain, the USA and other countries. Ure Smith eventually republished it in 1959.' (Publication summary)
Sydney : Ure Smith , 1966 - y No Kava for Johnny Sydney : Ure Smith , 1961 Z283735 1961 single work novel Sydney : Ure Smith , 1966
- y The Things They Do to You Sydney : Ure Smith , 1963 Z159882 1963 single work novel humour Sydney : Ure Smith , 1966
- y The Black Stump and Beyond : And Other Tales of the Legendary Australian Sydney : Ure Smith , 1966 Z18938 1966 selected work prose humour Sydney : Ure Smith , 1966
- y It's This Way Melbourne : Heinemann , 1964 Z492333 1964 single work novel humour Sydney : Ure Smith , 1967
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y
A Bird in the Hand
Sydney
:
Ure Smith
,
1965
Z347462
1965
single work
novel
humour
A 'satire of modern Australian life, with settings ranging from Sydney to the Gold Coast of Queensland'. The story focuses on the comic 'efforts of the protagonist, Clem Bird, to escape the bonds of respectability, a job, matrimony and the social ambitions of his North Shore mother'.
(Sources: Murphy Women Writers and Australia, 1988; The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 1994.)
Sydney : Ure Smith , 1967 - y So, You Want to Be an Australian Sydney : Ure Smith , 1959 Z1310815 1959 selected work prose humour Sydney : Ure Smith , 1968
- y Paddo Sydney : Ure Smith , 1964 Z144430 1964 selected work short story Sydney : Ure Smith , 1968
- y Gone Troppo Sydney : Ure Smith , 1968 Z143602 1968 single work novel humour North Sydney - Lane Cove area : Ure Smith , 1970
- y The Drums Go Bang! Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1956 Z149007 1956 single work autobiography humour North Sydney : Ure Smith , 1970
- y Pantaloons and Antics : Or Doodling with a Hermes Melbourne : Cheshire , 1964 Z200735 1964 single work novel humour North Sydney : Ure Smith , 1970