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BEST OF 2010 BOXSET THE by DREWE ROBERT & KENNEDY CATE (EDS)
Category: Fiction
A special boxset of The Best Australian Stories 2010, The Best Australian Essays 2010 and The Best Australian Poems 2010. The subjects addressed are wide-ranging and often topical. Each book showcases the latest work of Australia's finest contemporary writers, and each is an ideal way to encounter the b ...Show more
Cry In The Jungle Bar,a by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
Big, bullish Dick Cullen, water buffalo expert and former rugby star, is lumbering through his tour of duty with the UN agency in Asia. Out of his depth, he lurches from bar to bar, realising in the Nameless Nightclub that it is only a matter of time before his nightmares become reality.
Fortune by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
The story of Don Spargo, a modern explorer who finds a sunken treasure ship off the West Australian coast and becomes a folk hero, a lover, and a man both hunted and haunted. This book challenges the nature of reality and legend through scenes of modern conflict.
Montebello by Robert Drewe
Category: Biography
Montebello continues where Robert Drewe's much-loved memoir The Shark Net left off, taking us into his mature years. In the aftermath of events, both man-made and natural, that have left a permanent mark on the landscape and psyche of Western Australia - the British nuclear tests in the Montebello Islan ...Show more
Montebello: A Memoir by Robert Drewe
Category: Biography
'Listen to me,' my mother says. 'They've let off an atom bomb today. Right here in W.A. Atom bombs worry the blazes out of me, and I want you at home.' In the sleepy and conservative 1950s the British began a series of nuclear tests in the Montebello archipelago off the west coast of Australia. Even tod ...Show more
Native Plants Hassans Walls Reserve and Lithgow Surrounds by Suzanne Lollback (Designed by, Photographer, Artist, Editor, Prepared for Publication by, Index by); Helen Drewe (Photographer); Robert Coveny; Ken Durie (Photographer)
Category: Animals & Nature
Native Plants Hassans Walls Reserve Lithgow features descriptions and photographs of 490 native plants growing on the Reserve and in the Lithgow surrounding areas. It lists a further 82 found on the Reserve. In addition, a sample of 40 fungi and lichen are featured. The book lists both the scientific na ...Show more
Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers.At the age of ten, a small boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sporting hero. Against adult com ...Show more
Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers. At the age of ten, and just short of four feet tall, a boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sp ...Show more
Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative re-creation of the inner life of Ned Kelly, the National Hero and Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes, is written with a brilliant clarity and impressionistic economy. It carries the reader into a dreamwor ...Show more
Our Sunshine (Kelly Gang) by Robert Drewe
Category: Fiction
Ned Kelley'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 showdow ...Show more