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Peter Goldsworthy
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness.
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Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he’s applied his fascination with that stage of life to his…
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A gritty and clever thriller from long-time Penguin author Peter Goldsworthy.
Adrift after his divorce, J.J. takes a job teaching sign language to a gorilla. Their relationship takes an unexpected turn…
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Set in Darwin, Paul Crabbe meets Eduard Keller, a Viennese refugee with a mysterious past. Keller is the piano teacher and Crabbe the unwilling pupil, for Keller is unspeakably demanding…
Is it possible to be too much in love? After ten years in London, Martin Blackman returns to Adelaide with his wife and fellow psychiatrist Lucy, blissfully happy. But then…
Compulsively readable, pitch-perfect in mood, Gravel ponders the forces that can wear down a marriage, darken desire, lead people to thwart their best intentions.
It is Adelaide in 1994. Infertility expert and gynaecologist Mara Fox is disillusioned with her work, her life, everything. Mara soon gets a top job that proves to have dire…
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A collection of some of the best Australian writing, both old and new, from across the continent, which reminds us of our heritage and shows we have much to be…
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Peter Goldsworthy,Peter Goldsworthy
A moving tale of loss and the relationship between parents and child. Written in an evocative, haunting style, this story was first published in the collection Little Deaths in 1993…
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Peter Edwards,David Goldsworthy
This narrative history is a contribution to the celebration of the Australian Centenary of Federation in 2001. It traces the development of Australia’s broad political, strategic, economic and people-to- people…
Detective Sergeant Rick Zadow is angry, unmotivated, unwashed, unkempt, and almost entirely reliant on his guide dog, Scout, and voice-controlled personal assistant Siri to make it through each day: one…
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In December 1993, ISNAR, in collaboration with International Consortium for Application of Systems Approaches, organized a three-day workshop on systems approaches and -modelling for agricultural development.
