10: Sybylla is catapulted back to real life with a bang, her return home coinciding with a terrible dust storm. 9: It is time to go back to the farm, but before Sybylla leaves, there are several loose ends that need tying. 8: Everything goes wrong, as Sybylla is betrayed by her friend Gaddy, the noisome Big Ears threatens to commit suicide over love for her and news comes from home that all is not well there. 7: Astonishingly, Sybylla seems to have won the affections, or at least the attentions, of Sydney's leading carouser. 
6: Sybylla's first society dinner is not the success she assumed it would be. 5: On arriving in Sydney, the feted Sybylla is immediately exhibited to the urbane literati. 4: Sybylla's attempts to dissuade the newest would-be suitor fail dismally. 3: Sybylla's book is a huge hit, and she is wooed by men from near and far. 
2: Sybylla is astonished to find her fake autobiography has been published.
1: Possum Gulley, Southern Australia, 1902.Would-be adventuress Sybylla Melvyn leaves school and embarks on her career as an imitation autobiographer. G.10 part Adaptation of the Australian classic by Miles Franklin Plot Old Bush Songs - Douglas Stewart & Nancy Keesing, eds. The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea - Randolph Snow The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead History of the Australian Gold Rushes - Nancy Keesing, ed. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony - Henry Handel RichardsonĪ History of Australia - Marjorie Barnard Watson, ed.ĭad and Dave (On Our Selection and The New Selection) - Steele Ruddĭig: The Burke and Wills Saga - Frank Cluneįor the Term of his Natural Life - Marcus Clarke The Crossing: An Anthology of Australian Adolescence - C. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally Series Note: This series of octavo-sized hardbacks with gilt spine titling and attractive dustjackets (that often featured Australian paintings) was published in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.Īustralian Bush Ballads - Douglas Stewart & Nancy Keesing
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