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Frank Moorhouse
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Set in Geneva in the inter-war period, this book conveys all the high idealism of that benighted period in European history. It charts the rite of passage of Edith Berry…
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Winner of the Queensland Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Prize.
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed…
T. George McDowell, a soft drinks manufacturer on the south coast of New South Wales, prides himself on extolling the virtues of progres. But trouble in the shape of his…
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Catharine Lumby
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters.
Matthew Lamb
A cultural history of the times that shaped Frank Moorhouse and which Moorhouse himself helped to shape.
Louis Stone
One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with the light from a row of shops; the others, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn…
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The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters.Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art…
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The people in these stories are a tribe - a modern, urban tribe - which does not fully recognise itself as such. The experiences of the inner city ambience are…
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This irreverent and hilarious book is set in an imaginary statutory body called the Office of the Inspector-General of Misconception. The book satirises our current appetite for Official Inquiries, Royal…
A book of comic writing that incisively dissects our contemporary New Sensitivities.
How our Hero came to be…
‘Sometimes they completed each other’s sentences or said the second sentence of the other’s conversation. Sometimes Backhouse completed Irving’s sentences in a much better way, although sometimes along altogether different…
Explores the tempo and shifts in mores and style of a dynamic decade - the 70s - in Australias cultural development. Deftly interweaving literature and documentary history, the author traces…
Our Hero explores contemporary protocols - of family, food and art - looks at the tragic evanescence of technology and investigates meal reform and the science of life.
Our Hero…
A hilarious spoof of travel books.
Frank Moorhouse and his alter ego, Francoise Blase, are at their mordant best. Their wit, satire and keen…
As the conference participants settle in with their name tags and satchels, as they sort out amongst themselves their seating arrangements and gently jostle for positions at the bar bistro…
In an odyssey which moves across a world stage. Tales of Mystery and Romance touches high comedy and low farce - the non-event of the Jack Kerouac Wake, the dispute…
ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance…
At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all, the Martini, and this is a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost…
The milleu is a Sydney under-40 population who, hoping that being earnest or outrageous will make them feel real, are left saturated with anxiety instead. The stories are timeless in…
This novel concerns a writer turned diplomat, who at mid-life surveys his feelings, memories and desires in the hope of making sense of, among other things, a relationship he had…
A celebration of a great Australian love affair, ‘The Drover’s Wife’ in the Australian imagination: stories, performances and images.
An adaptation of Frank Moorehouse's novel, Cold Light asks timely questions about Australia's relationship to women of vision and people of difference.
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