$27.95 (Paperback book / Flamingo / ISBN:9780732278328)
The Gift Of Speed
Set during the glorious summer of 1960/61,The Gift of Speed chronicles the lives, fates and fortunes of a memorable group of characters in a fictitious outer-Melbourne suburb in the post-World War II era. The roads and footpaths may have been paved, the houses painted and the gardens grown – but the suburb still hovers between town and country. We catch up with Michael, 16 and obsessed with cricket; his parents, Rita and Vic, whose marriage is on the rocks; Vic’s 70-year-old mother, who comes to stay; and the mysterious factory owner who hurtles around the suburb at night in his sports car ... For one unforgettable summer, the closed community of the suburb opens up to the outside world. And it is not – as in the past – a war that allows this, but rather a carnival of cricket, music and colour. This is Steven Carroll's best book to date – a subtle, powerful novel which puts the ‘extra’ into ‘ordinary’ and celebrates what it means to be Australian.
Miles Franklin Shortlist 2005
The White Earth
$29.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Winner of the 2005 Miles Franklin Award "The White Earth revisits the conventions of the Australian pioneering saga and the gothic novel, investing them with remarkable imaginative force and contemporary significance. On... More »
Sixty Lights
$29.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In 1860, when they are just eight and ten, Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned. Left in the care of their uncle, the children begin slowly, frighteningly, to find their place in the difficult world. And so b... More »
The Gift Of Speed
$27.95 (Paperback book / Flamingo )
Set during the glorious summer of 1960/61,The Gift of Speed chronicles the lives, fates and fortunes of a memorable group of characters in a fictitious outer-Melbourne suburb in the post-World War II era. The roads and f... More »
The Submerged Cathedral
$23.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
‘Set me as a seal on your heart, for love is stronger than death.’ Spanning many years, travelling across Australia’s vast continent and through some of Europe’s great cities, *The Submerged Cathedral* is a beguiling, he... More »
Steven Carroll
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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The Gift Of Speed
$27.95 (Paperback book / Flamingo )
Set during the glorious summer of 1960/61,The Gift of Speed chronicles the lives, fates and fortunes of a memorable group of characters in a fictitious outer-Melbourne suburb in the post-World War II era. The roads and f... More »
The Art Of The Engine Driver
$22.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
The Art of the Engine Driver is the story of one evening in the lives of the residents of a new outer Melbourne suburb. As a mighty steam train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, a family of three – Vic... More »
The Lovers' Room
$29.95 (Paperback book / Harlequin )
"The lovers' room would always be theirs, and they would take it with them wherever they went." As the Allied forces occupy Japan at the end of World War II, an intense love affair develops between shy Australian Allen "... More »
The Time We Have Taken
$24.99 (Paperback book / 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 »
Review