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BEST OF 2010 BOXSET THE by DREWE ROBERT & KENNEDY CATE (EDS)
$69.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A special boxset of The Best Australian Stories 2010, The Best Australian Essays 2010 and The Best Australian Poems 2010. The subjects addressed are wide-ranging and often topical. Each book showcases the latest work of Australia's finest contemporary writers, and each is an ideal way to encounter the b ...Show more
Montebello by Robert Drewe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Montebello continues where Robert Drewe's much-loved memoir The Shark Net left off, taking us into his mature years. In the aftermath of events, both man-made and natural, that have left a permanent mark on the landscape and psyche of Western Australia - the British nuclear tests in the Montebello Islan ...Show more
Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers. At the age of ten, and just short of four feet tall, a boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sp ...Show more
Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers.At the age of ten, a small boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sporting hero. Against adult com ...Show more
Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative re-creation of the inner life of Ned Kelly, the National Hero and Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes, is written with a brilliant clarity and impressionistic economy. It carries the reader into a dreamwor ...Show more
Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
$12.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Ned Kelly's reputation as an outlaw is growing. To the masses he's a folk hero, but to the Establishment he's the most wanted man in the British Empire--by Royal decree the only person that everyone is permitted to kill. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans a showdown ...Show more
Sand by Robert Drewe
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer Robert Drewe teams up with internationally acclaimed poet John Kinsella to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are d ...Show more
Savage Crows,the by Robert Drewe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This story, of a tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history - the "saving" of the Tasmanian Aboriginies - is seen through the eyes of an obsessive young narrator, looking back over time. It portrays the collision of worlds, generations and mythologies.
The Beach : An Australian Passion by Robert Drewe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe's lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia's most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes of a favourite boat, a capsicum-stre ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2010 by Robert Drewe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'I wanted to showcase those subjects which thoughtful and talented Australian writers were absorbed by in this particular year; indeed (I thought), wouldn't it be good to show what this country, and its culture, was about in 2010?' - Robert Drewe This year's Best Australian Essaysoffers riveting snapsho ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2007 by Robert Drewe
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hot on the heels of the highest-selling Best Stories in 2006, Drewe is promising another sparkling collection of the best short work our fiction writers have produced in the last welve months.