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Blueprints for a Barbed-wire Canoe by Wayne Macauley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bram and his fellow residents are drawn by a dream: the promise of a freeway leading to a new suburb north of the city. The houses are built, but the freeway never comes. One by one, the dreamers leave, until only a small, hardcore group is left - including Bram, One-eyed Michael, and Michael's self-pos ...Show more
Caravan Story by Wayne Macauley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
One morning, without warning, our narrator wakes into a nightmare. He and his female companion are put in a caravan and driven to a football oval in a faraway country town.
Caravan Story by Wayne Macauley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first caravans arrive in a convoy. Wayne Macauley's narrator, Wayne Macauley, is in one of them. He's one of the artists removed from his home, given a new place to live and the chance to 'give back to society'. In his strange new community, housed on a footy oval in a faraway country town, he is gi ...Show more
Demons by Wayne Macauley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"They were going to tell stories. Let's go away for the weekend, said Megan, and leave our phones behind and turn off the computers and television and stop time because time is moving too fast and soon we'll all be saying where the hell did our lives go? We'll cook some food and drink some wine and each ...Show more
OTHER STORIES by MACAULEY WAYNE
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Wayne Macauley's Other Stories collects a variety of short fiction that he has published in literary magazines over the past 18 years. Despite the work's lengthy gestation, these stories demonstrate an impressive unity of vision, as well as an extraordinary - if uniquely Australian - voice.
Simpson Returns: A Novella by Wayne Macauley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ninety years after they were thought to have died heroically in the Great War, the stretcher-bearer Simpson and his donkey journey through country Victoria, performing minor miracles and surviving on offerings left at war memorials. They are making their twenty-ninth, and perhaps final, attempt to find ...Show more
Some Tests by Wayne Macauley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It begins with the normally healthy Beth--aged-care worker, wife of David, mother of Lettie and Em--feeling vaguely off-colour. A locum sends her to Dr Yi for some tests. ''There are a few things here that aren''t quite right,'' says Dr Yi, ''and sometimes it is these little wrongnesses that can lead us ...Show more
The Cook by Wayne Macauley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Power through service, says Head Chef. It's one of the first lessons taught at Cook School, where troubled youths learn to be master chefs by bowing to decadence and whim, by offering up a part of themselves on every plate. It's a motto Zac takes to heart. A teenage boy with a difficult past, he throws ...Show more
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