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Amateur Science Of Love by Craig Sherborne
Category: Fiction
They say we fall in love. But really we fall in sickness. I lost appetite for food in those two nights with Tilda. My stomach was sunken in its wishbone cavity. Me, I was never sick, but I was sick now, the strangest sickness that made my eyes gleam green with excellent health. They had shiny white edge ...Show more
Hoi Polloi by Craig Sherborne
Category: Biography
The hilariously compelling memoir that was hailed as an instant classic. Hoi Polloi recounts a childhood spent on racetracks and in bars, as the author's parents struggle to climb the social ladder. It begins in 1968 in the small town of Heritage, New Zealand. Living above the bar of his family's hotel ...Show more
Look at Everything Twice, for Me by Craig Sherborne
Category: Fiction | Series: Current Theatre
Muck by Craig Sherborne
Category: Biography
The award-winning sequel to the acclaimed memoir Hoi Polloi.'The dynasty has started with my father as the founding father and me his only son, the founding son. He looks forward to the day when he can watch his grandchildren out there in the clover-covered paddocks frolicking among the cowpats. Playing ...Show more
Necessary Evil by Craig Sherborne
Category: Poetry
Necessary Evilcontains magnificently realistic poems of family, racing and journalism as well as haunting evocations of the bush. Sometimes satirical and sometimes deeply personal, it confirms Sherborne as a poet possessing both verbal brilliance and an unmistakable vision.
Off the Record by Craig Sherborne
Category: Fiction
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition:Very Good. Minor marks to outer page edges . I have knocked on flyscreens and said to mothers of kidnapped toddlers, ''Don''t you feel guilty for leaving your child in the front yard alone?'' I have shamed them to tears for the photographer. I have gatecrash ...Show more
The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne
Category: Fiction
Colin dreams of escaping his parents' New Zealand farm for a grand stage career. He makes it to London and a disastrous audition before meeting Tilda; beautiful Tilda, older, an artist; who brings his future with her. A heady romance leads to a new home in a decaying former bank in a small town hours fr ...Show more
The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne
Category: Fiction
Carry me, son. Do not leave me behind.Are you listening to me?Of course you're listening, you say, and add the F-word. Off you go to cope with a storm. Lucerne armfuls for horses. For cows, plain hay. Alone in the paddocks of his grass hotel a man tends to his beloved horses, Socks and Boy. The voice o ...Show more
Tree Palace by Craig Sherborne
Category: Fiction
"They tried Mansfield but it was freezing and snowed and people like them don't fit in because they don't look prosperous. One time near Yellingbo they found a church no one prayed in and they lived there and for three weeks had stained glass for windows...They got chased out and went to Shepparton but ...Show more
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