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Robert Drewe
The tale of a man whose story outgrew his life.
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Internationally acclaimed as a novelist and memoirist, Robert Drewe returns to the short-story territory he has made his own. Set against a backdrop - the Australian coast - as randomly…
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The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic.
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A short-story collection that is set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family.
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Draws together twenty-five of the finest contemporary writers whose stories represent the most stimulating, startling, deeply moving and humorous writing about the beach. This book includes contributions from: Paul Bowles…
In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidentally collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes…
Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world’s most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of…
Grace attempts to claw back her personal territory by abandoning her inner city life as a film reviewer and fleeing to the remoteness of the Kimberley. Her only links with…