Queensland Premier's Literary Award Winners 2008
The Spare Room
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no or... More »
Review
Typewriter Music
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Univ Queensland Pr )
I came to David Malouf ’s poetry though his novels. After reading An Imaginary Life as a very young man I jumped on my bike and headed for the local library determined to take home every book I could find, because that... More »
The Peasant Prince
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
'This is your one chance. You have your secret dreams. Follow them! Make them come true . . . '
In a poor village in northern China, a small boy is about to be taken away from everything he's ever known. He is so afraid,... More »
Requiem For A Beast
$39.99 (Hardcover book / Lothian )
Requiem for a Beast is a multi modal work, consisting of the formats of graphic novel, picture book, novella, and musical work.
There are two main narratives within the book; one, is the story of a young stockman as he p... More »
Why Is Uranus Upside Down And Other Questions About The Universe
$24.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Have you ever wondered what dark matter is or why galaxies collide? Or why the Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth? Space is really, really big, as Douglas Adams once pointed out, and there is no better guide to i... More »
Drawing the Global Colour Line
$36.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
"[This] is a pioneering account of the transnational production of whiteness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A work remarkable both for its international breadth and for its sensitivity to local par... More »
Someone Else
$24.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
No extra details available for this item. More »