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First known date: 1971 Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 Longtime Books
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y separately published work icon The Honey Forest Hesba Brinsmead , Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton , 1979 Z855788 1979 single work children's fiction children's
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y separately published work icon Longtime Passing Hesba Brinsmead , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1971 Z668192 1971 single work novel young adult

'Longtime is a place in the Blue Mountains where Edwin Truelance built a house, Letty, his wife, planted a garden and their five children had a world of rain-forest and bushland to explore. Then more people came.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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y separately published work icon Once There Was a Swagman Hesba Brinsmead , Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1979 Z913514 1979 single work children's fiction children's

'During the Depression in Australia an old swagman, Mr Brodie, stays at the Truelance farm for a while and is befriended by nine-year-old Teddy.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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y separately published work icon Longtime Dreaming Hesba Brinsmead , Ken Hungerford , London Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982 Z855797 1982 single work novel young adult

'Teddy, the youngest of the Truelance family continues the narrative begun in Longtime Passing. The story begins on a night at the end of World War I. Family members are followed as they change, move away, marry and have children of their own, returning to their home at Longtime only for brief periods.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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y separately published work icon Christmas at Longtime Hesba Brinsmead , London : Angus and Robertson , 1983 Z855809 1983 single work children's fiction children's

'Christmas in Australia long ago, with the family reunited to enjoy the festive season, and the father giving his youngest child a gift she will never forget.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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