... their two daughters, Roie and Dolour. Making ends meet is hard in the slums of Sydney, and love is not kind ... the Cuckoo. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1987 and in 1994 was awarded an Honorary Doctor of ...
... and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's ...
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... and no play makes life dull. Justin, Keith, Marcus, and Evan love to do both. These young guys are four hard-working professionals who also have an addiction to club life. It is said that all work and no play makes life ...
... the legend of Red Dog and decided to do some research on this extraordinary story. After travelling to Western Australia and meeting countless people who'd known and loved Red Dog, Louis decided to spread Red Dog's fame ...
... of the acclaimed non-fiction works NINE PARTS OF DESIRE and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. In 2011 she presented Australia's prestigious Boyer Lectures, later published as THE IDEA OF HOME. In 2016 she was appointed Officer in ...
... to the ghetto. But then she meets Trae, who's still after the bling and fast money of drugs. He's hard, hot, irresistible-and trouble. Soon Roz is wild for a brother whose world is filled with dark schemes and deadly ...
... was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend shows up to ask him why he left ...
... lives in a shack beside it, can help. An Open Swimmer is a remarkable first novel by one of Australia's most loved and respected writers. About the Author Tim Winton has published twenty-one books for adults and children ...
... pinned to his chest The Near and The Far is what results when award-winning writers from Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Hong Kong share places, spaces, and ideas. Emerging from the ...
... of the acclaimed non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence . In 2011 she presented Australia's prestigious Boyer Lectures, later published as The Idea of Home . In 2016 she was appointed Officer ...
... be told? About the Author Kim Scott is a descendant of people living along the south coast of Western Australia prior to colonisation, and is proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar. Kim began writing for ...
... there is still the problem of love. An Uncertain Grace is a novel in five parts by one of Australia's most inventive and provocative writers. Moving, thoughtful, sometimes playful, it is about who we are - our best and ...
... his produce and, when it's on, watching the cricket. It's a full life. Things are changing though, with Australia and England playing a one-day match, and his new neighbours planting grapes for wine. His son is on at him ...
... novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award and That Deadman Dance (2010) also won Australia's premier literary prize, among many others. Proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar, Kim is ...
... the life-force of the ocean - seducing, threatening, inspiring. In The True Colour of the Sea , Robert Drewe - Australia's master of the short story form - makes a gift of stories that tackle the big themes of life: love ...
... Dylan Coleman is a Kokatha-Greek woman who grew up in Thevenard, on the far west coast of South Australia. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Adelaide, where she teaches Indigenous health, and her ...
... for a film. Together they began Books on the Rail in Melbourne and their network is now Australia-wide. Ali is Creative Director for the Hedgehog Agency, Melbourne, and Michelle is a primary school teacher. Their ...
... is destined to be a modern literary classic. About the Author Helen Garner was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1942. Her award-winning books include novels, stories, screenplays, and works of nonfiction, including Monkey ...
... ahead. About the Author The author of seven novels and two collections of stories, Gail Jones is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, awarded several prizes in ...
... with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in 'yabyum', they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow. Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat ...
... Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or ...
... . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling-with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget." - USA Today Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old ...
... is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose apparent easygoing nature conceals hard-won wisdom and the kind of street-smarts only experience can bring. As Chris is plunged into despair and ...
... of development in a rapidly modernising society. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work and ambition have brought him triumph and satisfaction. But when his company is investigated for corruption ...
... watches the birds, his next door neighbour has her own set of binoculars trained on him. Ardent, hard-working Betty has escaped to the country with her two fatherless children. Betty is pleased that her son, Michael ...
... The decades fall away. It is London during The Blitz and Emma Harte comes vividly back to life. Working hard under war-time conditions, she is also holding her family together as bombs drop, sirens wail and her sons ...
... police and politicians-in the blink of an eye the hood is theirs. Now, the only thing certain is the cold hard truth of the streets-because with enemies waiting behind every corner, there's only one way to stay on top of ...
... through the ranks of the Motor City crime underworld, proving to everyone, including himself, that he deserves the hard-earned title of kingpin of Detroit. About the Author Ms. Michel Moore is the sole founder of Say U ...
... rolls into her life, she's taken aback. Will he eventually capture her heart? In New York where you gotta go hard, these kings need to reign with an iron fist. Will they do it with or without queens? About the Author ...
... out, but it might not last long. Promising to leave his past behind, he soon finds out that old habits are hard to break. What he doesn't know is that his well-buried secret is about to reveal itself in a shocking manner ...
... ? It doesn't help that the idea of getting behind the wheel—an absolute necessity of her new life—makes it hard for Sarah to breathe. It's been almost twenty years since she's driven, and just the thought of merging is ...
... THE BOND BROTHERS. You don't want to be on the wrong side of this family Beau Bond hates fiercely and loves hard. He'll do anything to protect his twin Brett, and his girlfriend Jolene. Brett is a survivor. He's always ...
... found dead in and around the Seymour River are three too many. The community wants answers, and Leith and Dion work hard to get to the bottom of what went so wrong in the lives of these teens. Author: R.M. Greenaway ...
... told London's Observer that he writes fiction "to tell beautiful, exact, and well-constructed lies which enclose hard and shimmering truths." Indeed, this is what Barnes does, sometimes spiking his lies with fact -- most ...
... is a sixth-generation Texan who has lived in Austin for more than twenty-five years. He is currently hard at work on his second novel. Author: Jim Williams. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction
... scientist and the single reckless decision that leads to her standing trial for murder. Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a highflying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good ...
... her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is ...
... out of the way of Flay as he creaked after Swelter. This the kind of novel the best fantasy novelists try hard to forget exists - for it is a constant reminder of what they have yet to come close to achieving in their ...
... told London's Observer that he writes fiction "to tell beautiful, exact, and well-constructed lies which enclose hard and shimmering truths." Indeed, this is what Barnes does, sometimes spiking his lies with fact -- most ...
... supporting himself by weeding recyclables out of the refuse, at first Bugeye's life on Flower Island is hard. But then one night he notices mysterious lights around the landfill. And when the ancient spirits that still ...
... to live and love - and remain friends. But in a world where each day brings a new betrayal, hope is hard to cling on to. Anthills of the Savannah (1987), Achebe's candid vision of contemporary African politics, is a ...
... the night and live happily ever after. But in their convoluted world of deadly mischief, a happy ending will be hard to come by. ROYAL's treachery stands in the way of familial harmony, and this time the enemy the women ...
... never see him again was so great that she was unable to express why she had to go. Leaving Koran was hard, but facing her problems was worse. Returning with a Bachelor's degree, a new lease on life and working on her ...
... 'Dreaming Tracks' are what all Europeans call the labyrinth of invisible pathways that meander all over Australia. To Aboriginals, they are the 'Footprints of the Ancestors'; they are both intricate sources of personal ...
... been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia. Author: Tim Winton. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short ...
... a more fulfilling mode of life than he had so far experienced. With Frieda he lived in Italy, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Mexico and Mexico. They returned to Europe in 1925, settling in Italy again, where he finished Lady ...
... We can absolutely endorse this book. It is an award-winning bestselling title and has been one of Australia's bestselling titles since the publication of the hardcover edition in May 2008. More than once since then I ...
... fiction, but fiction which brings the history of a place to life . . . a major work of Australia literature.' Washington Post 'A profound and inspiring work of fiction.' The Age 'This is dazzling, dazzling. It makes the ...
One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the ...
... . He was born in Glasgow in 1975 and has lived in Africa, Europe and Asia before settling in Newcastle, Australia, with his wife and two daughters. His fiction has appeared in The Best Australian Stories , The Sleepers ...
... by Fiona McFarlane Written with unerring skill and insight, The Dyehouse is a masterly portrait of postwar Australia, when industrial work was radically transformed by new technologies and society changed with it. Mena ...
... the Year Award 2015, and most recently Undying, his first poetry collection. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK. Author: Michel Faber. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary ...
... in the painting, the woman on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an isolated cottage in Australia. Here they must try to untangle the lies and betrayals of their shared past - but time is running out. The ...
... out or rolled into a neat little aphorism, but has to be felt or experienced through the telling. He is Australia's truth teller and The Shepherd's Hut is truth at its most brutal. Author: Tim Winton. Format: Hardcover ...
... of short stories, A History of the Beanbag, An Unknown Sky (written with the assistance of an Australia Council grant), and Feet to the Stars . Her collections have been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's ...
... . But one terrible mistake sets Jo's life on a radically different course. Drawing on true events of Australia's worst industrial accident - a tragedy that still scars the city - The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel ...
... impossible for her to leave. About the Author Laura Elizabeth Woollett was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. In 2012, she completed an honours degree in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. In 2014 ...
The Biographer's Lover is a novel about Australia's complex relationship with memory, and the role gender plays in the ways we represent not only national myths but our private versus our public selves Why has no-one ...
... a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia, she divides her time between Sydney and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. She lives with her husband, the ...
... a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia, she divides her time between Sydney and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. She lives with her husband, the ...
... on his hands. About the Author Chris Abrahams was born in Oamaru, New Zealand but grew up in Sydney, Australia. For most of his adult life he has been a musician working in the fields of improvised music and electronica ...
... 't live with. A secret that changes everything, for both of them. Kate Grenville takes us back to the early Australia of The Secret River and the Thornhill family.This is Sarah's story. It's a story of tangled secrets, a ...
... stories witness to the impact of orphanage life and the consequences of having a dark skin in post-war Australia. Vividly rekindled, the lives of her family point the direction home for Candice. Home is a powerful and ...
... face with terror and the long, dark shadow it leaves behind. About the Author Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a PhD in history from University College London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in ...
... ) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia. Author: Tim Winton. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of ...
... My Brother Jack. Despite a lack of formal education, Johnston became a renowned journalist and one of Australia′s foremost war correspondents. The latter saw him travel extensively throughout the war and included his ...
... . In 2011, she took part in the Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development Program and, as a result, Hachette Australia published her first novel, Mr Wigg, in 2013. Nest, Inga's second novel, was published in 2014 ...
... drama and political debate. Like Tim Winton, Lang is a talented place-painter, deftly capturing contemporary Australia in all its natural beauty and conflicting ambitions. PRAISE FOR STEVEN LANG 'His best writing arises ...
... we need each other. About the Author Heather Taylor Johnson was born in the United States and has lived in Australia since 1999. Jean Harley Was Here is her second novel; her first was Pursuing Love and Death . She has ...
... the truth... About the Author Stuart Condie has been a Director of transport facilities across Europe and Australia but now works part-time as a consultant. He completed a two-year creative writing course at Sussex ...
... to her friends in time? Does she have a choice? A moving story of loss, change and self-discovery from Australia's master storyteller. Author: Fiona McCallum. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction
... to her friends in time? Does she have a choice? A moving story of loss, change and self-discovery from Australia's master storyteller. Author: Fiona McCallum. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction
... 's harsh, violent lives. Trenchant and brilliant, Thea Astley's final novel is a dark portrait of outback Australia in decline. About the Author Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. Her first novel, Girl with ...
... . In 2011, she took part in the Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development Program and, as a result, Hachette Australia published her first novel, Mr Wigg, in 2013. Nest, Inga's second novel, was published in 2014 ...
... Markus, newcomer Jay Carmichael depicts the conflict and confusion of life as a gay man in rural Australia, and explores how place can shape personal identity by both offering and restricting potential. A moving portrait ...
... the heart even as it seeks to lance the savage bleeding of the wounds of white settlement in Australia.' - Canberra Times Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving ...
... looks like weakness can be the best kind of strength. About the Author Kate Grenville is one of Australia's finest writers. Her bestselling novel The Secret River has been published in more than twenty countries. It has ...
... sunglasses and shoes Yes, I'm a typical woman and love to look fabulous! I currently live between Australia & Spain. Visit my website at www.carriestone.co.uk. Author: Carrie Stone. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern ...
... Juchau is a critically acclaimed Australian novelist. The World Without Us is her third novel, published by Bloomsbury in Australia, the UK and the U.S. The World Without Us has won The Victorian Premier's Literary Award ...
... . C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, The Harder They Come and San Miguel, and ten collections of stories, most recently T. C. Boyle Stories II . ...
... novel with Nsemia Inc. Publishers, we meet Shirley Temple Brown a young woman who has survived some of the hardest social and political times Jamaica has seen. But now she is finally tired of just surviving, she wants to ...
... All to herself. In fact, Bella decides that everything is better when it is just the two of them, making it harder for Ben's friends and family to stay in touch. And then a sudden tragedy triggers a chain of events which ...
... couple of hours to a full day, from easy to hard. Stroll vine-striped hillsides, discover hidden coastlines, or explore the Outback. Get to the heart of Australia and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Best Day ...
... a couple of hours to a full day, from easy to hard. Explore the Outback, hike along the coastline and admire Australia's wildlife. Get to the heart of Australia and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Best Day ...
... full day, from easy to hard. From rail trails to coastal pathways we cover the country with easy-to-follow trails for cyclists and E-bike riders. Inside Lonely Planet's Best Bike Rides Australia : Colour maps (including ...
... a broader context to describe how the loss of worker power in Australia has led to rising inequality and what this means for our democracy. Hard Labour examines some of the shifts of power in Australian history between ...
... artist and author, who has chronicled his twenty-five year relationship with Australia's aboriginal community in his paintings and two books, The Hard Light of Day and One Thousand Cuts . He currently lives in Alice ...
... and Custodians of the Old Way are correct in insisting that Australia is the cradle of humanity, and “that all peoples of ... bearer: the Pleiades. Between a Rock and a Hard Place focuses on one incredibly profound site and a ...
... up major challenges, testing her will to re-find the hard joys of life. In this memoir, Susan Varga moves ... Author Susan Varga was born in Hungary and came to Australia when she was five. She has published numerous books ...
... works in a weatherboard house with a tin roof and an olive tree in the garden in Sydney, Australia. Author: Malla Nunn. Format: Paperback Kids & Children Children, Teenagers & Young Adults (YA) Fiction General, Modern & ...
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