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Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book A New York Times Notable Book of 1998 "There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour -- You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel -- one of the great and most surprising courtships in literat ...Show more
Eucalyptus: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999 by Murray Bail
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a country property a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of species of gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision: she will marry the man who can name each eucalypt, down to ...Show more
Fairweather by Murray Bail; Ian Fairweather (Artist)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A completely revised and updated edition of Murray Bail's seminal book on the life and work of renowned artist Ian Fairweather.
He by Murray Bail
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
Holden's Performance by Murray Bail
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shadbolt, Holden. Gender: male. Age: 34.Model: Australian. No frills.Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to cinema bouncer to Prime Ministerial bodyguard. Guileless and matter of fact, Holden is fated to follow the fl ...Show more
Homesickness - Text Classics by Bail Murray
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but n ...Show more
"The Drover's Wife" and Other Stories by Bail Murray
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Here is the updated edition of Murray Bail's remarkable collection of short stories, first published in 1975. In addition to established classics such as 'The Drover's Wife'and 'Huebler', this edition includes a number of new stories. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban ...Show more
The Pages by Murray Bail
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
At dawn, two women leave Sydney to drive over the Blue Mountains, into the dry outback landscape and the home of the late philosopher Wesley Antill. A man who thought his name too light for a philosopher, and his ears outlandish. Erica, a philosopher herself, has been asked by her university to review W ...Show more
The Pages by Murray Bail
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
At dawn, two women leave Sydney to drive over the Blue Mountains, into the dry outback landscape and the home of the late philosopher Wesley Antill. A man who thought his name too light for a philosopher, and his ears outlandish. Erica, a philosopher herself, has been asked by her university to review W ...Show more
The Voyage by Murray Bail
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe. How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna? Perhaps he should have ...Show more
The Voyage by Murray Bail
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe. How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna? Perhaps he should have t ...Show more
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