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Johnno by David Malouf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. But what is the truth about Johnno? Semi-auto ...Show more
On Experience by DAVID MALOUF
$9.95 AUD
Category: Gift Books | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
In this beautifully written, eloquent piece by one of Australia's most celebrated novelists, David Malouf asks what is experience and how do we come by it? He explores the connections between writing and his imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer's life.
Ransom by David Malouf
$5.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer s Iliad one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus i ...Show more
Ransom by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclu ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Winner of the 1996 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of Australia at th ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focusing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines, Remembering Bablyon tells t ...Show more
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
In 1827, in a hut on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. Carney, an illiterate Irishman, is to be hanged at dawn. Adair, also Irish, has been sent to supervise the hanging. The novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice.
The Great World: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1991 by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For the two men in this novel, war was supposed to be a testing ground. But it proved to be an ordeal of a different kind. Spanning 70 years of Australian life, from Sydney's Cross to the backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, this is a novel of lost innocence and witness.