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Australia Under Surveillance by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Australian History
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 powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom of journalists. At a time when the government has raised the terrorist aler ...Show more
Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the oldest cities of the world to live in the newest city of the world - she had ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the oldest cities of the world to live in the newest city of the world - she had ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
"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 United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry, who joined the League i ...Show more
DAYS OF WINE AND RAGE by MOORHOUSE FRANK
Category: Culture
DAYS OF WINE AND RAGE explores the tempo and shifts in mores and style of a dynamic decade - the 70s - in Australia’s cultural development. Deftly interweaving literature and documentary history, Frank Moorhouse traces, from their avant-garde origins, significant threads in Australia’s social fabric - t ...Show more
Dark Palace (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction | Series: Edith Trilogy
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award.Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early Grand Dayshas been eroded by a sense foreboding as the world moves ever closer t ...Show more
Dark Palace: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2001 (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction | Series: Palais des Nations Ser.
On the night of October 15, 1931, Edith Campbell Berry is in the dining room of the Hotel des Bergues in Geneva, celebrating in the renewal of her contract as an officer of the league of nations. However, times are changing, for Edith and for the League. The grand days of early idealism and optimism are ...Show more
Dark Palace: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2001 (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction
Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early grand days has been eroded by a sense foreboding as the world moves ever closer to another war. Edith's life too, has change ...Show more