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The Rip by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
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, children and parents, friends and lovers. You will find yourself set down in a modern Garden of Eden with a disgraced Adam see ...Show more
The Savage Crows by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
This revelatory story of the most tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history - the 'saving' of a unique race, the Tasmanian Aborigines - is seen through the eyes of an obsessive young present-day narrator. Breathtaking and visionary in its scope, The Savage Crows breaks new fictio ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city – and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness. Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers – var ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
Category: Biography Memoir
A vibrant and haunting memoir that reaches beyond the dark recesses of murder and caos to encompass their ordinary suburban backdrop. Shows one of Australia's most acclaimed writers charting new and exciting territory.
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more
The True Colour of the Sea by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
An artist marooned on a remote island in the Arafura Sea contemplates his survival chances. He understands his desperate plight and the ocean's unrelenting power. But what is its true colour?A beguiling young woman nurses a baby by a lake while hiding brutal scars. Uneasy descendants of a cannibal victi ...Show more
Walking Ella : Ruminations of a reluctant dog-walker by Robert Drewe
Category: Biography Memoir
It occurs to me that it might be cathartic to write a dog-walker's journal: the true, unsentimental ruminations of a dog-walker with things on his mind more important than dogs. A dog-walker who, frankly, prefers humans. A dog-walker who decides to make the most of this begrudged walk to mull over wri ...Show more
Walking Ella: a Dog Day Dossier by ROBERT DREWE
Category: Fiction
Instead of the usual sentimental tripe about a man and his loyal canine pal, Robert Drewe offers us the realistic ramblings of someone daily driven to distraction by his dog. Ella is a handsome, liver coloured, spayed, German short haired pointer bitch, who has been to obedience training and failed.
Whipbird by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary's new vineyard, Whipbird,six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Hugh has been ...Show more
Whipbird by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary's new vineyard, Whipbird, six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Hugh has been ...Show more