The Rip
Robert Drewe

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

Internationally acclaimed as a novelist and memoirist, Robert Drewe returns to the short-story territory he has made his own. Set against a backdrop - the Australian coast - as randomly and imminently violent as it is be... More »

Grace
Robert Drewe

$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

Some relevant facts about Grace Malloy. Apart from being named after a 100 000-year-old skeleton, she was twenty-nine and for much of the past three years she'd been hiding from an erotomaniac.

Physically and emotionally... More »

Shark Net
Robert Drewe

$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city – and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness.

Then a man h... More »

Drowner
Robert Drewe

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidentally collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes them from the Wiltshire Downs t... More »

Our Sunshine
Robert Drewe

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

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 ... More »

Bay Of Contented Men
Robert Drewe

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

Witty and seductive, inventive and disturbing, The Bay of Contented Men ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Aust... More »

A Cry In The Jungle Bar
Robert Drewe

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

Big, bullish Dick Cullen, light sleeper, former rugby star and present expert on water buffalo, is lumbering through his tour of duty with a UN agency in Asia. Totally out of his depth among his small, deft, knowing coll... More »

Bodysurfers
Robert Drewe

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestsel... More »

Penguin Book of the Beach
Robert Drewe (ed.)

$29.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

The average Australian has conducted a lifelong love affair with the beach and the ocean shores, bays, dunes, lagoons and rivers of the coast. Until now, however, no one has attempted to match the ancient sensual and art... More »

The Best Australian Stories 2007
Robert Drewe (ed.)

$27.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )

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Best Australian Stories 2006
Robert Drewe (ed.)

$27.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )

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Walking Ella
Robert Drewe

$19.95 (Paperback book / Viking )

It occurs to me that it might be cathartic to write a dog-walker's journal: the true, unsentimental ruminations of a dog-walker with things on his mind more important than dogs.

A dog-walker who, frankly, prefers humans.... More »

Savage Crows
Robert Drewe

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

This revelatory story of the most tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history – the 'saving' of a unique race, the Tasmanian Aborigines – is seen through the eyes of an obsessive young present-day n... More »

Fortune
Robert Drewe

$23.00 (Paperback book / Penguin )

A tale of passion and pursuit, Fortune is 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 hunted and haunted man. Suspense... More »