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Michelle de Kretser
One of the most anticipated literary releases of the year, this gripping novel changes the game on what fiction can be and do.
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Michelle de Kretser’s fifth novel is both a delicious satire on the way we live now and a deeply moving examination of the true nature of friendship.
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"Theory & Practice is a thrillingly original hybrid work that seeks truthful answers to the most difficult questions of the day-questions about the nature of love, art, and desire, about…
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A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving novel from one of world literature’s rising stars.
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Randolph Stow
Inspired by a real-life serial killer, this disturbing psychological drama is the final work of one of Australia’s greatest writers.
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Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th century India, The Lost Dog is a haunting, beautifully written work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the wild, ancient continent…
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism.
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In this vibrant, rich and personal essay on acclaimed author Shirley Hazzard, Michelle de Kretser offers a masterclass in writing that is powerful and exhilarating
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A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story from the two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author.
Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf - hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin…
A mystery and a love story, an exploration of art and nature, a meditation on ageing and the passage of time. It offers a contemporary novel which examines the weight…
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Three monsters - racism, misogyny and ageism - preside over Michelle de Kretser’s mesmerising and innovative novel.
Michelle De Kretser
In July 1789, the devastation of the French Reign of Terror forever alters the lives of three sisters: the precocious Mathilde, the angelic Claire, and the tall, plainspoken Sophie who…
Set at the start of the French Revolution, a woman’s private passion is her search to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose. An American falls in love with her sister and…
First published in Australia and the UK by Allen & Unwin –Title page verso.
Longlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award
A profoundly original exploration of racism, misogyny, and ageism-three monsters that plague the world-this novel from a beloved and prize-winning author is…
Originally published: Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2007.
Set in the 1930s in Ceylon, this novel reflects the decay, corruption and last days of an empire and a world at the end of its tether. The story concerns…
On Shirley Hazzard is a vibrant and personal tribute in which the Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist Michelle de Kretser offers a masterclass in writing and reading. She celebrates the precision…
The dazzling new novel from Michelle de Kretser, author of Questions of Travel, bestseller and winner of the Miles Franklin Award.
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Daphne Du Maurier
A stirring historical drama, with characters based on du Maurier’s own family, set against the events of the French Revolution
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A novel of dazzling virtuosity and luminous intelligence that explores our urge to leave home, by a writer previously longlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange prizes whose prose…
A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi…
