$32.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr / ISBN:9780702236266)
The Fern Tattoo
Ten years after his mother’s death in an accident on the Hume Highway near Canberra, Benedict Waters is contacted by Mrs Darling, who claims to be an old friend of his mother’s. Several years later, he at last agrees to meet her, and she tells him that she has things of his mother’s to pass onto him. Only when Mrs Darling dies a few years later does Benedict uncover, in her possessions, a hidden world of family secrets he knew nothing about. Through his mother’s diaries, he learns of family scandals and crimes that have played out over the course of the previous century, the consequences of which haunt his family still. Meticulously plotted, The Fern Tattoo carefully unveils a story of the inescapable burden of ancestry and family heritage.
Miles Franklin Shortlist 2008
The Time We Have Taken
$27.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment.'
One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces ... More »
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Landscape Of Farewell
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
A hauntingly beautiful meditation on the land, the past, exile and friendship, Landscape of Farewell is the powerful new novel from acclaimed Australian author, Alex Miller. It is the story of Max Otto, an elderly German... More »
The Fern Tattoo
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
Ten years after his mother’s death in an accident on the Hume Highway near Canberra, Benedict Waters is contacted by Mrs Darling, who claims to be an old friend of his mother’s. Several years later, he at last agrees to ... More »
Love Without Hope
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her c... More »
Miles Franklin Longlist 2008
