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The Best Australian Strories: 2006 by Robert Drewe
$27.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In the sixth edition of this best-selling series, higly accalaimed author Frank Moorhouse has collected Australia's finest short fiction from the last twelve months. The contributors to this collection display the best fiction writers at the top of their form. This anthology demonstrates the enduring qu ...Show more
The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.
The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.
The Local Wildlife by Robert Drewe
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to northern New South Wales, where the 'local wildlife' doesn't just mean the native fauna, but the people as well. When Robert Drewe moved to this small community, he was expecting a few eccentrics and interesting animals -- and he got them.
The Penguin Book of the Beach by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Draws together twenty-five of the finest contemporary writers whose stories represent the most stimulating, startling, deeply moving and humorous writing about the beach. This book includes contributions from: Paul Bowles, Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer, Ian McEwa ...Show more
The Rip by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set against a backdrop - the Australian coast - as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between husbands and wives, children and parents, friends and lovers. You will find yourself set down in a modern Garden of Eden with a disgraced Adam see ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more
The True Colour of the Sea by Robert Drewe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An artist marooned on a remote island in the Arafura Sea contemplates his survival chances. He understands his desperate plight and the ocean's unrelenting power. But what is its true colour?A beguiling young woman nurses a baby by a lake while hiding brutal scars. Uneasy descendants of a cannibal victi ...Show more
Walking Ella : Ruminations of a reluctant dog-walker by Robert Drewe
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It occurs to me that it might be cathartic to write a dog-walker's journal: the true, unsentimental ruminations of a dog-walker with things on his mind more important than dogs. A dog-walker who, frankly, prefers humans. A dog-walker who decides to make the most of this begrudged walk to mull over wri ...Show more
Whipbird by Robert Drewe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary's new vineyard, Whipbird, six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Hugh has been ...Show more
Whipbird by Robert Drewe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary's new vineyard, Whipbird,six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Hugh has been ...Show more