Frank Moorhouse
Grand Days
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses, and allows him to kiss her passionately. Their early intimacy bind... Buy or find out more →
Dark Palace
$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House
The winner of the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award now in paperback...From one of Australia's greatest writers comes the tumultuous companion volume to the acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling triumph, GRAND DAYS. Buy or find out more →
Cold Light
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Read Frank Moorhouse's interview with Patrick Allington about Cold Light.
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. ... Buy or find out more →
Americans Baby
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In The Americans, Baby the milieu is a Sydney under-40 population who, hoping that being earnest or outrageous will make them feel real, are left saturated with anxiety instead. An inherent resistance to American cultura... Buy or find out more →
Room Service
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Frank Moorhouse and his alter ego, Francoise Blase, are at their mordant best. Their wit, satire and keen eye for detail are finely honed as they travel at home and abroad, savouring the persecution inflicted by bell cap... Buy or find out more →
Lateshows
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
THE CLUB I also thought I moved with what was called the Fast Crowd but I have begun to face up to the slowing of the Fast Crowd. My friends now not only move with a more leisurely pace, I observe, but with an undignifie... Buy or find out more →
Grand Days
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'An irreducibly rich, sustained and complex work of the imagination.' THE INDEPENDENT
Moorhouse has for a long time been one of the most original and professional of Australian writers in the world of literature and Engl... Buy or find out more →
Forty Seventeen
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
He is a failed writer turned diplomat, an anarchist learning the value of discipline. He moves in a world which takes him from the Australian wilderness to the conference rooms of Vienna and Geneva; from the whore-house ... Buy or find out more →
Futility And Other Animals
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In some ways, the people in these stories are a tribe - a modern, urban tribe - which does not fully recognise itself as such. Some of the people are central members of the tribe while others are hermits who live on the ... Buy or find out more →
Dark Palace
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early grand days has been eroded by a sense fo... Buy or find out more →
Cold Light
$45.00$27.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Read Frank Moorhouse's interview with Patrick Allington about Cold Light.
Short listed for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award!!!!
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has reject... Buy or find out more →
Everlasting Secret Family
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'Sometimes they completed each other's sentences or said the second sentence of the other's conversation. Sometimes Backhouse completed Irving's sentences in a much better way, although sometimes along altogether differe... Buy or find out more →
Conferenceville
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'I found my way to the seat in the empty auditorium . . . I wondered who would sit with me. A bit like school days . . . Throughout the auditorium people are connecting, making their alliance, for personal security, sexu... Buy or find out more →
Tales Of Mystery And Romance
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'I love airports. I love the opera of airports . . . Families with high-gloss airport emotion, a linkage of smiles, tears and touching. A moratorium on malice, air-conditioned goodwill. When the airport sanctuary is left... Buy or find out more →
Loose Living
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
How our Hero came to be a cultural ambassador in France fell into strange company; how he encountered the Duc and his entourage; how Europe responded to his Australian ways; how refinement eluded him; how the queen of co... Buy or find out more →
Days Of Wine And Rage
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
DAYS OF WINE AND RAGE explores the tempo and shifts in mores and style of a dynamic decade - the 70s - in Australia's cultural development. Deftly interweaving literature and documentary history, Frank Moorhouse traces, ... Buy or find out more →
Electrical Experience
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'I do not care for words in top hats. I believe in shirt-sleeve words. I believe in getting the job done. We're like that on the coast.' The Electrical Experience is the story of T. George McDowell, a manufacturer of sof... Buy or find out more →