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1915 : A Novel of Gallipoli by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
The year young Australians sailed off to war in high hopes of adventure, only to find themselves faced with disaster. The tragedy and violence of Gallipoli provide the climax to this very personal, moving and surprisingly romantic story. With remarkable skill and in achingly beautiful prose, Roger McDon ...Show more
1915: A Novel of Gallipoli by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
The year young Australians sailed off to war in high hopes of adventure, only to find themselves faced with disaster.The tragedy and violence of Gallipoli provide the climax to this very personal, moving and surprisingly romantic story. With remarkable skill and in achingly beautiful prose, Roger McDona ...Show more
A Sea-Chase by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
Judy and Wes fall in love instantly and from the beginning are rarely apart. Yet they never really share their ambitions and passions with each other. Son of a preacher, Wes, is passionate about everything and a particular cause is the battle against the French nuclear testing in the Pacific. And boatbu ...Show more
A Sea-Chase by Roger McDonald; Louise Crawford (Read by)
Category: Audio
At sea can be a beautiful and ferocious place to find yourself - alone and together. Growing up in inland Australia, Judy, a young teacher, has rarely seen the sea. But when she flees a rioting classroom one dismal Friday, a dud and a failure, she gets drunk and wakes up on a boat. Overnight her life c ...Show more
Australia's Wild Places by Roger McDonald (Photographer)
Category: Australian History
Australia's Wild Places celebrates the Australian landscape photographers whose works capture and encapsulate the essence of their country. From the drama of bush scapes to the untouched rocky crags of Western Australia and the serenity of the Tasmanian rainforest, the works collected here trace the dev ...Show more
Guillermo del Toro - At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections by Britt Salvesen, Jim Shedden, Paul Koudounaris, Keith McDonald, Roger Clark
Category: Art and Design
The perfect companion piece to an enthralling new exhibition on the visionary work and fervent imagination of director Guillermo del Toro. In 2016, a new exhibit on the work of visionary director Guillermo del Toro will begin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), before moving on to the Art G ...Show more
Mr Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
Charles Darwin set out on a voyage in the Beagle that would change forever the way human history was viewed. It was on this voyage that Darwin collected the information that gave birth to his controversial Theory of Evolution. Mr Darwin's Shooter is the story of Syms Covington, Darwin's manservant on th ...Show more
Mr Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
the story of Syms Covington, Darwin's manservant on the Beagle and afterwards. Last century Charles Darwin set out on a voyage in the Beagle that would change forever the way human history was viewed. It was on this voyage that Darwin collected the information that gave birth to his controversial Theory ...Show more
Mr Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
The story of Syms Covington, Darwin's manservant on the Beagle and afterwards. Last century Charles Darwin set out on a voyage in the Beagle that would change forever the way human history was viewed. It was on this voyage that Darwin collected the information that gave birth to his controversial Theory ...Show more
The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award. In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, no one had ventured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney. Or so it was believed until the escape of Desmon ...Show more
The Ballad of Desmond Kale: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2006 by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
In the early 1800's, out of the prison society of govenors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, none had entured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney into the vast territory claimed, New South Wales. Or so it was believed until the escape ...Show more