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Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Edith Trilogy
"Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses, and allows him to kiss her passionately.Their early intimacy binds them t ...Show more
Loose Living by Frank Moorhouse
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Moorhouse Collection Ser.
How our Hero came to be a cultural ambassador in France fell into strange company; how he encountered the Duc and his entourage; how Europe responded to his Australian ways; how refinement eluded him; how the queen of commas almost brought him down by tugging his rope; how he became an honoured member o ...Show more
Martini - A Memoir by Frank Moorhouse
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
J.D. Rockefeller is said to have once remarked to friends: 'Before choosing your hotel, order a martini cocktail at the bar. Then you'll know if the hotel is good enough for you...' At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all - the martini - and a lyrical memoir ...Show more
Martini: A Memoir by Frank Moorhouse
$24.95 AUD
Category: Wine & Drinks
At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all - the martini - and a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost, MARTINI: A MEMOIR is Frank Moorhouse at his melancholy and hilarious best. As he muses on the aesthetics of martini lore - olive or twist, shake ...Show more
The Americans, Baby by MOORHOUSE, FRANK
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In The Americans, Baby the milieu is a Sydney under-40 population who, hoping that being earnest or outrageous will make them feel real, are left saturated with anxiety instead. An inherent resistance to American cultural intrusions and the risks that those from a great powerful land such as the US take ...Show more
The Drover's Wife: A Collection by Frank Moorhouse
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of Drover's Wife works, stories and images.The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 has become an Australian icon.Other versions of the Lawson stor ...Show more
The Electrical Experience by MOORHOUSE, FRANK
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I do not care for words in top hats. I believe in shirt-sleeve words. I believe in getting the job done. We're like that on the coast.' T. George McDowell, a manufacturer of soft drinks on the south coast of New South Wales, prides himself on extolling the virtues of progress. He is a Rotarian and expo ...Show more