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Joseph Furphy
A classic of the Australian outback, SUCH IS LIFE is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue.
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David Malouf
From his poverty-stricken upbringing on a farm in Queensland, Frank Harland nurtures his artistic genius until the time comes when he can take possession of his dreams. Inextricably tangled with…
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In his first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music in 2007, David Malouf once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers.
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In The Happy Life David Malouf addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? In luminous prose, with ideas to savour and reflect…
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David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf explores new and…
An up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia’s most distinguished poets. Malouf’s best poems, with their grace and intelligence, remain among the finest examples of the Australian lyric. An essential compendium…
A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; Malouf’s men and women are together but curiously alone, looking…
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Semi-autobiographical, the novel perfectly captures the ragged modernisation of Brisbane and the sense of a generation locked in combat with the elusive Australian Dream.
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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…
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Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people’s battles…
The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild…
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers.
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David Malouf begins by describing, in loving evocative detail, the house in Brisbane where he was born and grew up, moving from room to room, always relating the smallest items…
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother’s GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father ‘missing in action’, to the portrait of an…
This brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love and ends in the intimate territory of the long-familiar, where there is no need for words. It steps…
