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Lovesong by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Seeking shelter in a Parisian cafe from a sudden rainstorm, John Patterner meets the exotic Sabiha and his carefully mapped life changes forever.
Lovesong by Alex Miller
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom, asmall, dingy Tunisian caf#65533; on Paris' distant fringes. Run bythe widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the caf#65533; offers ahome away from home for the North African immigrant workerstoiling at the great abattoirs of Vaugiraud. But wh ...Show more
Lovesong by Alex Miller
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Seeking shelter in a Parisian cafe from a sudden rainstorm, John Patterner meets the exotic Sabiha and his carefully mapped life changes forever. Resonant of the bestselling Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller's brilliantly realised novel tells the deeply moving story of their lives together, and of how ea ...Show more
Max by Alex Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity. 'This book so beautifully evokes the power of places in shaping our consciousness and perception…As readers of Alex Mill ...Show more
Prochownik's Dream by Alex Miller
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the award-winning author of Conditions of Faith and Journey to the Stone Country, Alex Miller's new novel reveals the inner life of an artist, torn between his obsession with his art and his love of his wife and daughter. 'What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another ...Show more
Prochownik's Dream by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alex Miller's latest novel Prochownik's Dream is about an artist who hasn't been able to paint or draw for years, not since the death of his father. When he suddenly finds the inspiration to work again, it creates all sorts of tensions in his life, as he alienates his wife and neglects his child. Procho ...Show more
Simplest Words (HB) by Alex Miller
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimat ...Show more
The Ancestor Game: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1993 by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The best-selling, 1993 Miles Franklin Award-winning novel from one of Australia's foremost literary writers.
The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the begi ...Show more
The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Passage of Love is a moving novel from one of Australia's most beloved authors, two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Alex Miller. Both intimate and epic, Miller's autobiographical novel begins as the story of Robert Crofts, whose father, after serving in World War II, returns to the family's ...Show more
The Sitters by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A narrow, vertical painting, tightly enclosing the scene. Her pale arm and her pale thigh. Viewed at a diagonal through an exceedingly tall doorway ...just a glimpse of something ...An ageing portrait artist meets a woman who unsettles him, yet inspires him to paint her. Reluctantly, at first, they are ...Show more
Watching the Climbers on the Mountain by Alex Miller
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A novel of passion and brooding suspense, Watching the Climbers on the Mountain is set in the remote Central Highlands of Queensland. It is the story of Ward Rankin, the disaffected station owner, and Ida, his unhappy wife, who sees the solution to her problems in her love for the young English stockman ...Show more