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1 y separately published work icon Unreliable Memoirs. Falling Towards England. May Week Was in June Clive James , London : Cresset Press , 1992 Z862415 1992 selected work autobiography humour
1 40 y separately published work icon A Difficult Young Man Martin Boyd , London : Cresset Press , 1955 Z500015 1955 single work novel (taught in 2 units)

' Handsome, proud, reprehensible, misunderstood. Dominic Langton is the dark heart of A Difficult Young Man. His brother Guy can scarcely understand where he fits into the pattern of things or what he might do next. Martin Boyd’s much loved novel is an elegant, witty and compelling family tale about the contradictions of growing up.' (Publication summary)
4 48 y separately published work icon The Cardboard Crown Martin Boyd , London : Cresset Press , 1952 Z501486 1952 single work novel (taught in 1 units) Dominic Langton dies, leaving the family home to his brother, Guy Langton. There, Guy's discovery of letters written by his grandmother, Alice, provokes him to tell his family's history, with Alice as the central figure, in a novel. As a writer, he sets himself the task of discovering, narrating, and creating from the remnants of the past. (Source: Sydney University Press)
3 19 y separately published work icon Such Pleasure Martin Boyd , London : Cresset Press , 1949 Z501591 1949 single work novel
4 60 y separately published work icon Lucinda Brayford Martin Boyd , London : Cresset Press , 1946 Z501697 1946 single work novel Lucinda Brayford (1946) chronicles three generations of an Anglo-Australian family around the turn of the twentieth century and contrasts both Australian and English societies. At the same time, the book is a sensitive study of one woman's life. Lucinda's family, originally arriving in Australia in disgrace, become wealthy though farming, eventually owning a magnificent house in Toorak where the cream of Melbourne society gathers for social events. Lucinda meets Captain Hugo Brayford and they marry and leave for England where her marriage fails. A life of ease and wealth in Melbourne is replaced by hardship and austerity in wartime England. Some of the anti-authoritarianism and pacifism that emerged from Martin Boyd's experiences in World War I can be seen in this book, considered by some to be his finest work. (Source: Sydney University Press)
1 3 y separately published work icon But To What Purpose E. L. Grant Watson , London : Cresset Press , 1946 Z36461 1946 single work autobiography
1 1 y separately published work icon Priest Island E. L. Grant Watson , London : Cresset Press , 1940 Z962478 1940 single work novel historical fiction fantasy

The setting of Priest Island is an island to which a young man has been banished for stealing sheep, an exile which drives him into himself and finally into an acceptance of his permanent exile. A monk who lived 300 years ago on the island is the banished man's spiritual companion and counselor who offers support as he works his way through despair into acceptance. Eilean a'Chleirich or Priest Island is the most remote of the Summer Isles off Wester Ross in the Western Highlands of Scotland. Watson visited it in the company of the naturalist Frank Fraser Darling who resided there from 1937.
2 12 y separately published work icon The Nun and the Bandit E. L. Grant Watson , London : Cresset Press , 1935 Z36570 1935 single work novel E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 729 comments: 'His latest book, The Nun and the Bandit, 1935, descends close to melodrama, but the sensationalism is restrained by the objectivity of the language. The bandit, escaping from a murder, kidnaps a girl and takes her with a sister (the novice), to the sparse desert region of Western Australia, where his redemption is fulfilled. The characters are related symbolically to their environment.'
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