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The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Glenroy Ser.
On a hot summer's night in the 1950s, the old and the new, diesel and steam, town and country all collide - and nobody will be left unaffected. As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, a family of three - Vic, Rita and their son Michael - are off to a party. George Bedse ...Show more
The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
As a mighty steam train leaves Spencer Street station on its haul to Sydney, the nearby residents are on their way to an engagement party. George Bedser, a shipbuilder from Liverpool, is celebrating the engagement of his daughter Patsy. As they walk to the party, we hear the stories of their lives.
The Gift of Speed by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Glenroy Ser.
In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia, bringing with them a carnival of music, colour and possibility. Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled. If, like his heroes, he has the gift of speed, he will move beyond his suburb into the great world...And yet, as his summer unfolds, Michael realises that ...Show more
The Lost Life by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
They may never have a life together‚ but they will have their moment. They will have this much. England‚ September 1934. Two young lovers‚ Catherine and Daniel‚ have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton‚ an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps‚ they hide‚ ...Show more
The Lost Life (Eliot Quartet) by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
England, 1934. Two young lovers have trespassed into a rose garden of an abandoned house in the English countryside. They witness the poet T.S. (Tom) Eliot and his friend Emily Hale, enter the garden and bury a small tin together. Tom is married, and his wife has no intention of letting him go. What is ...Show more
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Glenroy Ser.
One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old. That same morning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband's snores, yet it is years since Vic moved north. Their son, Michael, has left for the city, and ...Show more
The Time We Have Taken: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2008 by Steven Carroll
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award. The straight line of History has led, and was always leading, to this day and they have all been lucky enough to be alive, right now, to greet the moment. One suburban morning in Summer 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop ...Show more
Year of the Beast (Glenroy Book #6) by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Glenroy Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
One of Australia's finest and most critically acclaimed writers returns with a powerful novel that goes back to the very beginning of the story, to bring his sweeping Glenroy series to a magnificent close. Melbourne, 1917: the times are tumultuous, the city is in the grip of a kind of madness. The Grea ...Show more