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On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers by Michelle de Kretser
$17.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
'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 and Design
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
$19.55 AUD
Category: General 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
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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.
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
$32.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story from the two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author.
THE HAMILTON CASE by Michelle De Kretser
$14.30 AUD
Category: General Fiction
MURDER, A MOONLESS NIGHT, THE JUNGLE CROWDING CLOSE.477. The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations and jungle, decay, corruption and the backwash of empire, this gripping nuanced novel has a pitch-perfect ear for the comedy and a sharp eye for the tragedy of a world at the end of ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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: General 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
$23.95 AUD
Category: General 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 Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"On a cloudless summer afternoon in 1789, labourers working in the fields around Montsignac, a village in Gascony, saw a man fall out of the sky.The balloon had drifted over a wooded ridge and into their valley. The farmworkers, straightening up one by one, shaded their eyes against the dazzle of the su ...Show more