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Boyhoodlum by Anson Cameron
Category: Biography
A hilarious memoir and a crash-investigator's report into how not to be a boy. Anson Cameron was born in the Victorian town of Shepparton in 1961, the son of a country lawyer and an English rose. Through the shoeless neighbourhoods and surrounding forests, sipping a Blue Heaven milkshake, shooting at an ...Show more
Lies I Told About a Girl by Anson Cameron
Category: Fiction
He's just and only a boy. It's 1975. Blue Black is a clever young so and so, who's won a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school. His family is from the bush town of Pentimento, and his father earns his living logging the local trees while his mother looks after the home. Blue is their great hope. T ...Show more
Neil Balme: A Tale of Two Men by Anson Cameron, Neil Balme
Category: Sports and Hobbies
The long-awaited memoir of one of AFL's hardest players and most respected behind-the-scenes coaches. 'You've got to have that madness in your mind to win, win, win. You've got to have that somewhere, but it can't consume you.' This story begins in infamy. Everyone's first glimpse of the man is of fer ...Show more
Pepsi Bears and Other Short Stories by Anson Cameron
Category: Fiction
Daring and provocative short stories from one of Australia's best comic writers. A collection of fables in which the intuition of animals is set against the hubris of man, Anson Cameron is part court jester, part acclaimed writer of short stories and novels, and part national conscience. A cola company ...Show more
Silences Long Gone by Anson Cameron
Category: Fiction
Black faith. White faith. Whose claim of spiritual allegiance to the land really matters?
Stealing Picasso by Anson Cameron
Category: Fiction
Harry Broome dreams of being a famous painter. And when a sophisticated French beauty buys all the paintings at his first exhibition, he knows he's on his way. But in the art world nothing is as it seems. Before long, to pay his debts and save his reputation, he is trapped in a plot to steal Picasso's W ...Show more
Strange Blasphemy by Anson Cameron
Category: Fiction
1. This is a nuanced but unflinching look at one of the most important - and divisive - issues facing Australian society today- Islam in Australia. 2. A perfect reading-group book, the book centres around one explosive incident, the fall-out of which every reader will have an opinion on. 3. Essentially, ...Show more