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Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Ned Kelly's reputation as an outlaw is growing. To the masses he's a folk hero, but to the Establishment he's the most wanted man in the British Empire--by Royal decree the only person that everyone is permitted to kill. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans a showdown ...Show more
PERTH by FRANCES ANDRIJICH AND ROBERT DREWE
Category: Australian History
In this lavishly produced book the images of award winning photographer Francis Andrijich, the essay from Robert Drewe, author of the best-selling memoir Shark Net and the impressionistic writing of Jeff Bell combine to create a stunning homage to the uniqueness of the city of Perth. From the broad gold ...Show more
Rip Audio 4 CD's by DREWE Robert
Category: Audio Books
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist and memoirist, Robert Drewe returns to the short-story territory he has made his own. Set against a backdrop - the Australian coast - as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between husbands and wives, ...Show more
Sand by Robert Drewe
Category: Poetry
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer Robert Drewe teams up with internationally acclaimed poet John Kinsella to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are d ...Show more
Savage Crows,the by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
This story, of a tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history - the "saving" of the Tasmanian Aboriginies - is seen through the eyes of an obsessive young narrator, looking back over time. It portrays the collision of worlds, generations and mythologies.
Swimming to the Moon by Robert Drewe
Category: Biography
From a floury encounter on a baker's work table to the art of sitting backwards on chairs, from budgie training to spontaneous human combustion, this collection showcases the non-fiction writing of one of Australia's best-loved authors. These pieces encompass suburban portraits and coastal living, affec ...Show more
The Bay of Contented Men by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
This novel ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the US, Japan and Hong Kong. It confronts issues of gender, race and generations with an ironic desperation.
The Beach : An Australian Passion by Robert Drewe
Category: Australian History
From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe's lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia's most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes of a favourite boat, a capsicum-stre ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2010 by Robert Drewe
Category: Languages and Reference
'I wanted to showcase those subjects which thoughtful and talented Australian writers were absorbed by in this particular year; indeed (I thought), wouldn't it be good to show what this country, and its culture, was about in 2010?' - Robert Drewe This year's Best Australian Essaysoffers riveting snapsho ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2007 by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
Hot on the heels of the highest-selling Best Stories in 2006, Drewe is promising another sparkling collection of the best short work our fiction writers have produced in the last welve months.