Search results for Frank Moorhouse
Cold Light
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Winner of the Queensland Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Prize. It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who... Buy or find out more→
Grand Days
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses, and allows him to kiss her passionately. Their early intimacy binds them... Buy or find out more→
Dark Palace
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
On the night of October 15, 1931, Edith Campbell Berry is in the dining room of the Hotel des Bergues in Geneva, celebrating the renewal of her contract as an officer of the league of nations. As Edith moves expertly through the... Buy or find out more→
The Electrical Experience
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
T. George McDowell, a soft drinks manufacturer on the south coast of New South Wales, prides himself on extolling the virtues of progres. But trouble in the shape of his youngest daughter, Terri, tests his values and beliefs, and... Buy or find out more→
Inspector-General of Misconception, The
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
This irreverent and hilarious book is set in an imaginary statutory body called the Office of the Inspector-General of Misconception. The book satirises our current appetite for Official Inquiries, Royal Commissions and Senate... Buy or find out more→
Loose Living
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
How our Hero came to be a cultural ambassador in France fell into strange company; how he encountered the Duc and his entourage; how Europe responded to his Australian ways; how refinement eluded him; how the queen of commas... Buy or find out more→
The Americans, Baby
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
The milleu is a Sydney under-40 population who, hoping that being earnest or outrageous will make them feel real, are left saturated with anxiety instead. The stories are timeless in their concerns, and explore ideolgy, idealism,... Buy or find out more→
Futility and Other Animals
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
The people in these stories are a tribe - a modern, urban tribe - which does not fully recognise itself as such. The experiences of the inner city ambience are shown through stories of growing up, leaving home, coming to the city... Buy or find out more→
The Everlasting Secret Family
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
'Sometimes they completed each other's sentences or said the second sentence of the other's conversation. Sometimes Backhouse completed Irving's sentences in a much better way, although sometimes along altogether different... Buy or find out more→
Martini: A Memoir
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all, the Martini, and this is a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost, as the author muses on the aesthetics of Martini lore, olive or... Buy or find out more→
Days of Wine and Rage
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
DAYS OF WINE AND RAGE explores the tempo and shifts in mores and style of a dynamic decade - the 70s - in Australia's cultural development. Deftly interweaving literature and documentary history, Frank Moorhouse traces, from... Buy or find out more→
Lateshows
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
THE CLUB I also thought I moved with what was called the Fast Crowd but I have begun to face up to the slowing of the Fast Crowd. My friends now not only move with a more leisurely pace, I observe, but with an undignified lack... Buy or find out more→
Tales of Mystery and Romance
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
In an odyssey which moves across a world stage. Tales of Mystery and Romance touches high comedy and low farce - the non-event of the Jack Kerouac Wake, the dispute over the exact form of secular penetration achieved by Milton, an... Buy or find out more→
Conferenceville
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
As the conference participants settle in with their name tags and satchels, as they sort out amongst themselves their seating arrangements and gently jostle for positions at the bar bistro, as they brace themselves for the first... Buy or find out more→
Forty Seventeen
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
He is a failed writer turned diplomat, an anarchist learning the value of discipline. He moves in a world which takes him from the Australian wilderness to the conference rooms of Vienna and Geneva; from the whore-house to... Buy or find out more→
Room Service
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Frank Moorhouse and his alter ego, Francoise Blase, are at their mordant best. Their wit, satire and keen eye for detail are finely honed as they travel at home and abroad, savouring the persecution inflicted by bell captains,... Buy or find out more→
The Best Australian Stories
$24.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In this fifth edition of the series, Frank Moorhouse has collected Australia's finest short fiction from the last twelve months. This anthology of new work demonstrates the enduring quality of contemporary Australian fiction. Buy or find out more→
Dark Palace
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
On the night of October 15, 1931, Edith Campbell Berry is in the dining room of the Hotel des Bergues in Geneva, celebrating the renewal of her contract as an officer of the league of nations. As Edith moves expertly through the... Buy or find out more→
Grand Days (Epub)
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
Set in Geneva in the inter-war period, this book conveys all the high idealism of that benighted period in European history. It charts the rite of passage of Edith Berry, from wilfulness and self-delusion to a more humble and... Buy or find out more→
Cold Light
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the... Buy or find out more→
The Everlasting Secret Family
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
'Sometimes the way they misunderstood each other was more interesting than what they'd meant to say.' 'Sometimes they completed each other's sentences or said the second sentence of the other's conversation. Sometimes Backhouse... Buy or find out more→
The Inspector-General of Misconception
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
From eating oysters to the lost art of speech-making, Frank Moorhouse as The Inspector General applies his fastidious eye to the habits and ways of our society. Described by Clive James as Australia's Funniest Author, Frank... Buy or find out more→
Martini: A Memoir
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all, the Martini, and this is a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost, as the author muses on the aesthetics of Martini lore, olive or... Buy or find out more→
The Electrical Experience
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
T. George McDowell, a soft drinks manufacturer on the south coast of New South Wales, prides himself on extolling the virtues of progres. But trouble in the shape of his youngest daughter, Terri, tests his values and beliefs, and... Buy or find out more→
The Americans, Baby
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
A collection of 20 interrelated stories set mainly within the Sydney alternative subculture of the 1960s. The uncertainties and ambiguities of the Americanization of Australia find a focus in the isolation of Becker, a lonely... Buy or find out more→
Futility and Other Animals
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
The people in these stories are a tribe - a modern, urban tribe - which does not fully recognise itself as such. The experiences of the inner city ambience are shown through stories of growing up, leaving home, coming to the city... Buy or find out more→
Conference-ville
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
Entertaining and always surprising stories from Frank Moorhouse. 'I found my way to the seat in the empty auditorium ...I wondered who would sit with me. A bit like school days ...Throughout the auditorium people are connecting,... Buy or find out more→
Days of Wine and Rage
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
Explores the tempo and shifts in mores and style of a dynamic decade - the 70s - in Australias cultural development. Deftly interweaving literature and documentary history, the author traces, the sub- cultural movements towaqrds... Buy or find out more→
Lateshows
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
Our Hero explores contemporary protocols - of family, food and art - looks at the tragic evanescence of technology and investigates meal reform and the science of life. THE CLUB. I also thought I moved with what was called the... Buy or find out more→
Room Service
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
A hilarious spoof of travel books. Frank Moorhouse and his alter ego, Francoise Blase, are at their mordant best. Their wit, satire and keen eye for detail are finely honed as they travel at home and abroad, savouring the... Buy or find out more→
Loose Living
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
A book of comic writing that incisively dissects our contemporary new sensitivities. How our Hero came to be a cultural ambassador in France fell into strange company; how he encountered the Duc and his entourage; how Europe... Buy or find out more→
Tales of Mystery and Romance
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
In an odyssey which moves across a world stage. Tales of Mystery and Romance touches high comedy and low farce - the non-event of the Jack Kerouac Wake, the dispute over the exact form of secular penetration achieved by Milton, an... Buy or find out more→
Forty-Seventeen
$19.95 – Electronic book text / Random House Australia
This novel concerns a writer turned diplomat, who at mid-life surveys his feelings, memories and desires in the hope of making sense of, among other things, a relationship he had with a young girl. The author's work has been... Buy or find out more→
Jonah
$12.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with the light from a row of shops; the others, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn like moths by the glare, crowded and jostled under the... Buy or find out more→