Home

Peter Goldsworthy

Gravel
Peter Goldsworthy

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

Eight brilliant stories by a master of the form, author of the classic 'Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam' and 'The Kiss'

A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled he... More »

Review

Everything I Knew
Peter Goldsworthy

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Peter Goldsworthy's high-octane, fourteen-year-old narrator Robbie Burns has creative energy to burn . . .

. . . physical and mental, sexual and literary, constructive and destructive. Coming of age in a small town peopl... More »

Review

Everything I Knew
Peter Goldsworthy

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

It's the year 1964, and fourteen-year-old know-it-all Robbie Burns is about to discover he still has a lot to learn.

The world is changing fast, although the news has yet to reach the small South Australian town of Penol... More »

Review

List Of All Answers
Peter Goldsworthy

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Peter Goldsworthy is described as Australia's best short-story writer - this collection of his work, from a period of more than 20 years, shows why. These stories are by turns funny, dark, sad and always addictively read... More »


Three Dog Night
Peter Goldsworthy

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

Is it possible to be too much in love? After ten years in London, Martin Blackman returns to Adelaide with his wife and fellow psychiatrist Lucy, blissfully happy. But then he introduces her to his old friend Felix, once... More »

Maestro
Peter Goldsworthy

$22.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )

Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half–outback, half–oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refu... More »


Honk If You Are Jesus
Peter Goldsworthy

$22.95 (Paperback book / Angus & Robertson )

From the pen of Peter Goldsworthy a modern champion of the lost art of storytelling comes Honk If You Are Jesus, a bestselling novel that resists categorisation, and explodes expectations. Keep your hand on the horn duri... More »

Navel Gazing
Peter Goldsworthy

$22.00 (Paperback book / Penguin )

Funny, wise, idiosyncratic and original, these occasional essays chart a course through the various genres of writing that Peter Goldsworthy has investigated: fiction, science fiction, poetry, opera and film. Spiced with... More »


True Blue: On Being Australian
Peter Goldsworthy editor

$27.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Australians mostly live in cities, yet many of our favourite movie characters are working men from the bush. We revere our sporting heroes, yet we prize their larrikin irreverence. Each year we enthusiastically commemora... More »

Copyright © 2010 Readings Pty Ltd. Site designed and developed by Inventive Labs.