Books by Mavis Thorpe Clark
Mavis Thorpe Clark was a prolific writer. She wrote mainly for children and teenagers, but also authored several biographies, a number of non-fiction titles, and many articles, short stories and scripts for newspaper, magazine and radio.
For additional information such as foreign language editions, excerpts appearing in other publications etc, please see the publishing information page.
Teenage Fiction
- Hatherly's First Fifteen - published in 1930
- Dark Pool Island - published in 1949
- The Twins from Timber Creek - published in 1949
- Home Again at Timber Creek - published in 1950
- Jingaroo - published in 1950
- Missing Gold - published in 1951
- The Brown Land was Green / Kamoora - first published in 1956
- Gully of Gold - first published in 1958
- Pony from Tarella - first published in 1959
- They Came South - first published in 1963
- The Min-Min - first published in 1966
- Blue Above the Trees - first published in 1967
- Spark of Opal - first published in 1968
- Nowhere to Hide - published in 1969
- Iron Mountain - first published in 1970
- New Golden Mountain - first published in 1973
- Wildfire - first published in 1973
- The Sky is Free - first published in 1974
- The Hundred Islands - first published in 1976
- A Stranger Came to the Mine - first published in 1980
- Solomon's Child - first published in 1981
- Young and Brave: Stories of Nine Steadfast Young Australians - published in 1984
See also Articles, Short Stories and Scripts for a small selection of the range of material which has appeared in newspapers, magazines and on radio between the 1930s and the 1980s.
Biography
- Pastor Doug: The Story of an Aboriginal Leader - first published 1965
- Joan and Betty Rayner: Strolling Players - published 1972
- The Boy from Cumeroogunga: The Story of Sir Douglas Ralph Nicholls, Aboriginal Leader - first published 1979
- No Mean Destiny: The Story of the War Widow's Guild of Australia 1945-85 - published 1986
- Trust the Dream: The Autobiography of Mavis Thorpe Clark, Author of 'The Min-Min' - published 1999
Other Non-Fiction
- John Batman, 1962
- Fishing, 1963
- A Pack Tracker, 1968
- Opal Mining, 1969
- Iron Ore Mining, 1971
Readers for Primary School Students
- The Lilly-Pilly, 1979
- Joey, 1980
- Boo to a Goose, 1981
- The Thief Who Came Quietly, 1982
- "Phar Lap, Australia's Wonder Horse" in Feather or Fur, 1982
- Soft Shoe, 1988
- "Tommy and Phar Lap" in A Python for a Pet, 1988
- "Trefoil: Island of Tragedy" in What No TV?, 1988
Short Stories or Non-Fiction included in Collected Works
- The Boy - "Found on the Waterfront", 1940s
- The Boy: The Australian Boy's Annual - "A Good Save", 1940s
- The Girl - "New Girls at Clifton", 1940s
- Cole's Great Book for Boys - "Mystery in the Dormitory", 1948
- Cole's Great Boy's Book No. 2 - "In the Wrong Colours", 1950s
- Australian Children's Annual - "A Race for a Rope", 1963
- Australia in Wars - "Sir John Monash", 1974
- Australian Escape Stories - "The White Mouse", 1976
- A Handful of Ghosts - "The Haunted Hills", 1976
- Australian Bushrangers - "Jackey-Jackey the Gentleman Bushranger", 1977