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On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers by Michelle de Kretser
17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go ... It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts. It fell like rain, greening my vision of Australian literature as a stony ...Show more
Portraits by Sophie Cunningham, W. H. Chong, Michelle de Kretser, John Wolseley
65.00 AUD
Category: Art
From award-winning book designer and artist W. H. Chong, Portraits is a collection of 300 drawings of artists, writers and musicians he has sketched over the last decade. Portraits is a love letter to our culture makers, a sparkling collection of more than 300 drawings of artists, writers, musicians, t ...Show more
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. Around these two superbly drawn ...Show more
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism. 'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.' Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upsi ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism.
Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story from the two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author.
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
MURDER, MOONLIGHT, THE JUNGLE CROWDING CLOSE...The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, decay and corruption, this sinuous, subtle, surprising novel is a masterly evocation of time and place, of colonialism and the backwash of empire. It is the story of an embittered Ceylonese ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, and shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize, The Life to Come is a powerful novel that effortlessly blends sharp satire of the literary world with deeply compassionate portraits of lonely people and their strategies for survival.
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize "For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her eve ...Show more
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tom Loxley, an Indian-Australian professor, is less concerned with finishing his book on Henry James than with finding his dog, who is lost in the Australian bush. Joining his daily hunt is Nelly Zhang, an artist whose husband disappeared mysteriously years before Tom met her. Although Nelly helps him ...Show more
The Suburbs of Hell - Text Classics by Randolph Stow; Michelle de Kretser (Introduction by)
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
His eyes are on the one eye of the rifle. His mouth splits open his brown beard. He throws up a hand, palm outward, in an unwilled, futile gesture to ward off death. A killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed in ...Show more
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