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Dark Palace: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2001 (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction | Series: Palais des Nations Ser.
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
Dark Palace: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2001 (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction
For those who loved Grand Days, this is its sparkling sequel, following Edith Campbell Berry through the war years in Geneva at the heart of the League of Nations. Her marriage is falling apart but she is reunited with her enigmatic soulmate Ambrose. Edith is a literary creation to rival a Jane Austen c ...Show more
Everlasting Secret Family by MOORHOUSE Frank
Category: Fiction
‘Sometimes they completed each other’s sentences or said the second sentence of the other’s conversation. Sometimes Backhouse completed Irving’s sentences in a much better way, although sometimes along altogether different lines of meaning. But he usually let it go and went with the new meaning contribu ...Show more
Forty-Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction
He is a failed writer turned diplomat, an anarchist learning the value of discipline. He moves in a world which takes him from the Australian wilderness to the conference rooms of Vienna and Geneva; from the whore-house to warzone he feels the pull of the genetic spiral of his ancestry. At the sharp axi ...Show more
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction | Series: Edith Trilogy
"Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses, and allows him to kiss her passionately.Their early intimacy binds them t ...Show more
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction
"Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses, and allows him to kiss her passionately.Their early intimacy binds them t ...Show more
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction | Series: Palais des Nations Ser.
'An irreducibly rich, sustained and complex work of the imagination.' THE INDEPENDENT Moorhouse has for a long time been one of the most original and professional of Australian writers in the world of literature and English. Grand Days is the summit of this achievement.' GEOFFREY DUTTON, AUSTRALIAN BOOK ...Show more
Inspector-generalof Misconception, The by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Humour
This irreverent and hilarious book is set in an imaginary statutory body called the Office of the Inspector-General of Misconception. The book satirises our current appetite for Official Inquiries, Royal Commissions and Senate Inquiries.
Lateshows by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction
Our Hero explores contemporary protocols - of family, food and art - looks at the tragic evanescence of technology and investigates meal reform and the science of life. The Club - I also thought I moved with what was called the Fast Crowd but I have begun to face up to the slowing of the Fast Crowd. My ...Show more