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Claustrophobia by Tracy Ryan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Claustrophobiais the taut, compelling story of a young Perth wife who sets about toprotect her husband by stalking his ex-lover, but unexpectedly falls into apassionate affair and a world of lies. In a novel that possesses the dark wit,psychological insight and narrative momentum of a Patricia Highsmith ...Show more
Rose Interior: New Poems by Tracy Ryan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Rose Interior move between the inside and outside of everything they touch, from the domestic scene, both cosy and claustrophobic, to the social and ecological settings we must all answer for. Poems from Ireland, Switzerland and Australia consider life at home in the personal sense: through ...Show more
Scar Revision by Tracy Ryan
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Scar Revision' - surgically minimising the effects of scars - is the powerful central image of Tracy Ryan's highly accomplished new collection. Both formally adventerous and movingly personal, these poems offer vivid accounts of how we survive and 'rewrite' literal and symbolic scars and of regeneratio ...Show more
The Argument by Tracy Ryan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The unknowable is Tracy Ryan's terrain; these are poems of keen appraisal and survival demonstrating an extraordinary range and held tight by a cohesive vision. Each poem makes clear the poet's preoccupation with mortality. If the argument is with death - that cold cross-examiner - these are poems which ...Show more
The Queen's Apprenticeship by Tracy Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two women from different worlds in Renaissance France cross paths in a way that changes both their lives.One is Marguerite de Navarre, a King's sister. Powerful, privileged and widely admired, Marguerite must nonetheless marry where she is told to, regardless of her feelings, and - despite the thrilling ...Show more
The Water Bearer by Tracy Ryan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Water is contained in these poems in many different ways- from the water filling a second-hand cooler in an old farmhouse to ocean riptides and impassive dams; from swimming lessons to paddocks layered with water after rain. From scheme water, pipelines and a countryside in the grip of drought - the wat ...Show more
Unearthed by Tracy Ryan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
Unearthed is a collection of elegies for dead friends and past loves as well as a tribute to Ryan's embattled but joyous life on a bush block. In a long sequence addressed to her Swiss-German first husband, Ryan delves into unresolved grief and the ambivalent feelings that remain after severing intense ...Show more
We Are Not Most People by Tracy Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kurt Stocker's Swiss childhood is dominated by strict and god-fearing parents. He enters a seminary with the intent of becoming a priest and making his parents proud of him, but struggles to adapt. Leaving this vocation behind, he marries Liesl and they eventually emigrate to Australia. Decades later in ...Show more
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