[?]hat’s New in Paper-backs
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HE Sydney publishers Angus and Robertson have released a new ies of paper-backs under the title Pacific Books. On the strength of 1 first six titles published, and the tt six that are promised, the series going to be of special interest to is of Australiana—which includes, course, not only Australians. The ff series will contain the “best istralian writing for Australian ders”, according to the publishers, 1 the first six titles now available
Sowers Of The Wind, By T.
G. Hungerford. A novel of Aus han soldiers in Occupied Japan,
[He Man From Snowy
*Er And Other Selected
; R SES, by A. B. (“Banjo”) Person. A popular selection of ballads, narrative poems, and Porous verses.
No Boundary Fence, By
ink O’Grady. The romantic story Hamilton Hume, the “currency who became a great explorer.
Our Selection, And
idH NEW SELECTION, by Steele a - The bitter-sweet selection
stories of Australia’s homespun satirical humorist.
COONARDOO, by Katharine Susannah Prichard. The moving story of a beautiful aboriginal girl and a station-owner.
Ben Hall The Bushranger,
by Frank Clune. Bushranging “from the inside”—and why Ben Hall chose a life of crime.
We are not sure how Frank Clune got into any series presenting “best Australian writing”, although he would certainly get a place in a series presenting the work of Australian writers with the greatest output.
And T. A. G, Hungerford has better stuff to his credit than this one on Australian troops with the British Occupation Forces in Japan just after the war. It’s not a fast-moving story.
Steele Rudd’s ON OUR SELECTION and Banjo Paterson’s VERSES are very welcome.
There is a new generation of Aus tralian readers all ready to be intro duced to these famous tales which are the mould from which all the Dad and Dave stories—and radio programmes—have been taken over the years. Steele Rudd (in real life Arthur Hoey Davis, who was born near Toowoomba in 1868) always hated that radio serial. For one thing, in his original stories it was never Dad and Mum, but Dad and Mother.
There is something refreshing, en tertaining and vastly amusing in Steele Rudd’s original prose as he tells of the trials of the early farmers of the outback, scratching for a living.
The six titles which will follow this release are THE PATHWAY OF THE SUN, by E. V. Timms;
The Cattle King, By Ion L.
Idriess; HERE’S LUCK, by Lennie
Lower; The Sands Of Windee,
by Arthur W. Upfield; BLUE HILLS, by Gwen Meredith; MY LOVE MUST WAIT, by Ernestine
Hill.
(All the titles in the present series are 5/6 each.)