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On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers by Michelle de Kretser
$17.99 AUD
Category: Essays Language and Writing
'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
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
"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: Literary 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
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story from the two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author.
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 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
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Life to Come: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 - Audio CD by Michelle de Kretser
$49.95 AUD
Category: Audio
The dazzling new novel from Michelle de Kretser, author of Questions of Travel, bestseller and winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. I ...Show more
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary 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: Fiction
"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
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