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10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year by Robert Drewe, Anita Heiss, Toni Jordan, Tom Keneally, Kathy Lette, Monica Mcinerney, William McInnes, Melina Marchetta, Jack Marx, and Peter Temple
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
This diverse collection of tales by ten of our best writers captures contemporary Australian life in all its variety. Funny, poignant, perceptive, these unputdownable stories will get everyone reading! Exclusive to Books Alive!
A Cry in the Jungle Bar by Robert Drewe
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Big, bullish Dick Cullen, light sleeper, former rugby star and present expert on water buffalo, is lumbering through his tour of duty with a UN agency in Asia. Totally out of his depth among his small, deft, knowing colleagues, he lurches sweatily from bar to bar across various tropical states of emerge ...Show more
The Bay of Contented Men by Robert Drewe
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Witty and seductive, inventive and disturbing, The Bay of Contented Menranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Australians whose desires and misadventures are conjured here into intriguing fictions. R ...Show more
The Drowner by Robert Drewe
$15.00 AUD
$50.00 (70% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidentally collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes them from the Wiltshire Downs to the most elemental choices of life and death in the Australian desert. Their inten ...Show more
The Savage Crows by Robert Drewe
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Novel concerning extinction of Tasmanian Aborigines; author's note that characterisatons of G.A. Robinson and Truganini bears resemblance to their known personalities, however backdrop of events while based on research, includes some fictionalised reconstruction; author recommends novel not to be used f ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city – and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness. Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers – var ...Show more
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