The Shiralee — D’Arcy Niland

Title: The Shiralee

Author: D’Arcy Niland

Publisher: Penguin Books

Format: Paperback

Edition: Penguin Classics edition, 2001, with a new introduction by Les Murray

ISBN: 0141186135

Condition: Second-hand. Paperback with light shelf wear, minor creasing and rubbing to the cover and spine, and mild handling marks. Pages appear clean overall. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

The Shiralee is a classic Australian novel about Macauley, an itinerant worker travelling across New South Wales with his young daughter, Buster. At first, he sees the child as his “shiralee” — his burden — but their journey through the bush slowly becomes a story of attachment, hardship, pride and reluctant tenderness.