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Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1964 and the little wine-producing town of Penola, in South Australia is about to have its complacency shattered. Robbie, the only child of the local cop, experiences a chemical mix between he and his new thoroughly modern English teacher, Miss Peach.
Foe by J. M. Coetzee; Peter Goldsworthy (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With electrical intensity of language and insight, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. The stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly movin ...Show more
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The characters in these unsettling stories, of which there are six short and two long, want things that run counter to their sense of themselves. They're drawn outside their comfort zone into situations that are sometimes amusing, sometimes undignifying, never quite what they expect.
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a strange dance with his stalker. A father gives his daughter a Christmas present with a disturbing history. An ugly sports parent plays a game of ridiculous ...Show more
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's applied his fascination with that stage of life to his own, from his bizarre first memories to the embarrassments of adolescence. For all his working life Goldsworthy has been both ...Show more
Honk If You Are Jesus by GOLDSWORTHY Peter
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the pen of Peter Goldsworthy - a modern champion of the lost art of storytelling - comes Honk If You Are Jesus, a bestselling novel that resists categorisation, and explodes expectations. Keep your hand on the horn during this startling comic fiction.
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAESTRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one ...Show more
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Against the backdrop of Darwin - that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of North Australia - a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many ...
Minotaur by Peter Goldsworthy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Peter Goldsworthy's new novel features a blind detective determined to deliver justice to the man who shot him, even though his failed assassin has broken out of jail and is equally determined to finish the job. Cleverly structured around the five senses, and with the action confined to one week, it's ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
The List of All Answers by Peter Goldsworthy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
No one writes about adult relationships as well as Peter Goldsworthy, who isn't afraid to look at their darker side: jealousy, revenge, deception, desperation... Goldsworthy dissects his characters with surgical sharpness while still managing to be witty and entertaining, and to astonish his readers wit ...Show more