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7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd & Christos Tsiolkas
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In it Boyd railed against Australia's promotion of ornament, decorative approach to design and slavish imitatio ...Show more
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
He asked the water to lift him, to carry him, to avenge him. He made his muscles shape his fury, made every stroke declare his hate. And the water obeyed; the water would give him his revenge. No one could beat him, no one came close...His whole life, Danny Kelly's only wanted one thing: to win Olympic ...Show more
Barracuda (TV Tie In) by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Tender and brutal and blazingly brilliant, the new novel from the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Slaptakes an unflinching look at modern Australia - at our hopes and dreams, our friendships and our families - and asks what it means to be a good person, and what it takes to become o ...Show more
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2020. The stunningly powerful new novel from the author of The Slap. 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and ...Show more
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and violate men in front of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly in the streets. We are hunted everywhere and we are hunted by ev ...Show more
Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
An unsettling, brilliant novel about the truths and lies of mythology and history from the acclaimed author of The Slap. Isaac is a photographer in his mid-30, travelling through Europe. It is the post-Cold War Europe of a united currency, illegal immigration and of a globalised homogenous culture. In h ...Show more
Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake. In my family it was a series of small explosions; consistent, passionate, pathetic. Cruel words, crude threats... We spurred each other on till we reached a crescendo of pain and we retired exhaused to ou ...Show more
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, brutality, sacrifice and revelation. This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda, takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to chara ...Show more
Merciless Gods audio by Christos Tsiolkas
$49.95 AUD
Category: Audio
A collection of thrilling, original and imaginative stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda - a showcase all of his immense and unique story-telling talents. Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, brutality, sacrifice and revelation. This incendi ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more