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Camouflage by Murray Bail
Category: Fiction
From the Miles Franklin award-winning author Murray Bail. The brilliant title story 'Camoflauge' tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942. Accompanying it is one of Bail's masterly pieces of short fiction, 'The Seduction of my Sister'.
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book A New York Times Notable Book of 1998 "There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour -- You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel -- one of the great and most surprising courtships in literat ...Show more
Eucalyptus: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999 by Murray Bail
Category: Fiction
On a country property a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of species of gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision: she will marry the man who can name each eucalypt, down to ...Show more
Eucalyptus: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999 - CD by Murray Bail
Category: Audio Books
Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had travelled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend.
Fairweather by Murray Bail; Ian Fairweather (Artist)
Category: Art and Design
A completely revised and updated edition of Murray Bail's seminal book on the life and work of renowned artist Ian Fairweather.
He by Murray Bail
Category: Biography
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
Holden's Performance by Murray Bail
Category: Fiction
Shadbolt, Holden. Gender: male. Age: 34.Model: Australian. No frills.Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to cinema bouncer to Prime Ministerial bodyguard. Guileless and matter of fact, Holden is fated to follow the fl ...Show more
Homesickness by Murray Bail
Category: Classic
Thirteen Australian package tourists set off around the world on the holiday of a lifetime. But as they trawl from country to country, through cities and round ever more obscure museums they find nothing as they expect it, least of all themselves. Homesickness is an enchanting novel: a wry, witty look a ...Show more
Homesickness by Murray Bail
Category: Fiction
A package tour of thirteen men and women travel the world, visiting museums, hotels and shops. They are like tourists anywhere, except that wherever they go - Africa, England. South America, New York of Russia - they find nothing as it seems. This is one of the most distinctive and original Australian n ...Show more
Homesickness - Text Classics by Bail Murray
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but n ...Show more
"The Drover's Wife" and Other Stories by Bail Murray
Category: Fiction
Here is the updated edition of Murray Bail's remarkable collection of short stories, first published in 1975. In addition to established classics such as 'The Drover's Wife'and 'Huebler', this edition includes a number of new stories. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban ...Show more