The True Story Of Spit Macphee
- Paperback
324 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2015
Summary
When young Spit MacPhee comes to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen fear for his future. Fyfe MacPhee is a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit has to fend for himself along the riverbank where they live. While some people feel that Spit can look after himself, others believe he would be better cared for in a boys home—and when old Fyfe dies after one of his ‘turns’ a fierce battle to decide Spit’s destiny begins.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922182074 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922182079 |
| Author: | James Aldridge, Phillip Gwynne |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 324 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 128mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
| Audience Age: | 11-15 |
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James Aldridge
James Aldridge has written approximately thirty novels for adults and children, along with short stories, plays, non-fiction works, and television scripts. His writing has been translated into forty languages. He also had a successful career in journalism, with his war dispatches being published globally in major international news publications. In 1972, he received the gold medal for journalism from the Organisation for International Journalists.
The first twenty years of Aldridge’s life, spent growing up in the Victorian town of Swan Hill, served as the inspiration for his well-known St Helen series. Set during the Depression of the 1930s, the novels include:
- Ride a Wild Pony (adapted for screen by Walt Disney)
- My Brother Tom (adapted into a television series)
- The True Story of Spit MacPhee (adapted for television, winner of the 1986 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award and the 1986 Guardian Award)
- The True Story of Lilli Stubeck (1985 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year)
- The True Story of Lola MacKellar
The Wings of Kitty St Clair is a recent addition to this popular series, featuring beloved characters familiar to St Helen readers. In 2003, The Girl from the Sea was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year and the NSW Premier’s Literary Award.
Phillip Gwynne, the introducer, is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Deadly Unna?, which became a literary success in 1998 and has sold over 180,000 copies. The novel was adapted into the feature film Australian Rules, for which Gwynne received an AFI award. His sequel, Nukkin Ya, was published to great acclaim in 2000.
Gwynne has also written:
- The Worst Team Ever, Born to Bake, and A Chook Called Harry in the Aussie Bites series
- Jetty Rats
- The adult detective thriller The Build Up
- The Debt series
- The young adult novel Swerve, which was shortlisted for numerous awards, including the 2010 Prime Minister’s Award and the Golden Inky.
- Michael in the Stuff Happens series.
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