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One Life: My Mother’s Story

Kate Grenville,Kate Grenville

This vivid, intimate, narrative memoir celebrates the life of best-selling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville’s mother. Now a gorgeous paperback

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A Room Made of Leaves

Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville's latest bestselling novel, now in a smaller format and featuring a beautiful updated cover design

What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the…

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Joan Makes History: UQP Modern Classics

Kate Grenville

This wonderfully irreverant novel rewrites 200-odd years of Australia’s past. Joan is a wife and mother of no great distinction but in the life of her imagination she is in…

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The Case Against Fragrance

Kate Grenville

A beautifully written, clear-eyed investigation of the science of scent and the power of the fragrance industry, from one of Australia’s greatest writers.

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The Lieutenant

Kate Grenville

Lt Daniel Rooke, a young astronomer, sails on the First Fleet to a land waiting for scientific discovery. But his attention soon shifts from the stars to Tagaran, an Aboriginal…

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Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters

Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville’s collection of Elizabeth Macarthur’s letters, the inspiration for her bestselling, award-winning novel A Room Made of Leaves

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The Case Against Fragrance

Kate Grenville

A beautifully written, clear-eyed investigation of the science of scent and the power of the fragrance industry, from one of Australia’s greatest writers.

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The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics

Kate Grenville

Harley Savage is a large, rawboned, plain person with a ragged haircut and a white t-shirt coming unstitched along the shoulder. Douglas Cheeseman is a big-eared man who avoids his…

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Dark Places: Text Classics

Kate Grenville

The tale of a man who believes he has the right to conquer the mocking flesh of any woman.

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The Writing Book: A practical guide for fiction writers

Kate Grenville

The Writing Book doesn’t just talk about how to write fiction; it takes you, step by step, through the process of doing it. By working your way through this book…

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The Secret River

Kate Grenville

A universal and timeless story of love, identity and belonging

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Restless Dolly Maunder

Kate Grenville

An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother - a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood.

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Restless Dolly Maunder

Kate Grenville

The Women's Prize-winning and Booker-shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life

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Lilian’s Story: Text Classics

Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville’s debut novel, complete with a special new introduction, is now available as a Text Classic. A must-read for fans of one of Australia’s most prominent writers.

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A Kindness Cup: Text Classics

Thea Astley,Kate Grenville

An Australian town is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary. But one man is intent on reminding the town of its brutal past.

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Albion’s Story

Kate Grenville

In this startling, fasciniating, disturbing (Library Journal) companion to Lilian’s Story, Kate Grenville takes on a daunting challenge: to imagine, from the inside out, how an apparently respectable Victorian gentleman…

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Searching for the Secret River

Kate Grenville

Set in London, Sydney and the Hawkesbury, this book describes Kate Grenville’s search for her convict ancestor, and her quest to make his life into a novel. Grenville tells us…

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A Room Made of Leaves

Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville’s latest bestselling novel, now in a beautiful paperback edition

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Lilian’s Story

Kate Grenville

The heartwarming story of Lilian Singer, who starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle - class Australian family and ends it…

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The Secret River

Kate Grenville

And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them. Soon Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse…

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One Life: My Mother’s Story

Kate Grenville

In this vivid, intimate, narrative memoir bestselling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville celebrates her mother’s life.

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One Life: My Mother’s Story

Kate Grenville

In this vivid, intimate, narrative memoir bestselling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville celebrates her mother’s life.

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Joan Makes History

Kate Grenville

In this rollicking, irreverent tour de force, Kate Grenville rewrites the familiar past. Joan is a woman of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is…

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The Secret River

Kate Grenville

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in London’s slums, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his…

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Lilian’s Story

Kate Grenville

The first book by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River

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Writing From Start to Finish: A six-step guide

Kate Grenville

A new handbook to help beginners kickstart their writing by prize-winning author and long-time writing teacher, Kate Grenville

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Searching For The Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel

Kate Grenville

The incredible true story behind the Booker Prize shortlisted The Secret River

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A Room Made of Leaves

Kate Grenville

A Room Made of Leaves is the internationally acclaimed author Kate Grenville’s first novel in almost a decade. It is historical fiction turned inside out, a stunning sleight of hand…

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A Room Made of Leaves

Kate Grenville

This beautifully wrought novel, from the author of The Secret River, tells a story of passion and resilience, giving voice to a woman silenced by history; shortlisted for the Walter…

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Sarah Thornhill

Kate Grenville

A new novel from Kate Grenville and a journey back to the Thornhill family of the bestselling The Secret River

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One Life: My Mother’s Story

Kate Grenville

This vivid, intimate, narrative memoir celebrates the life of best-selling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville’s mother. Now a gorgeous paperback

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Sarah Thornhill

Kate Grenville

A new novel from Kate Grenville and a journey back to the Thornhill family of the bestselling The Secret River

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The Idea of Perfection: Picador Classic

Kate Grenville

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001, The Idea of Perfection is a witty and tender romance.

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Sarah Thornhill

Kate Grenville

A new novel from Kate Grenville and a journey back to the Thornhill family of the bestselling The Secret River

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The Lieutenant

Kate Grenville

From the author of the Booker-shortlisted The Secret River and winner of the Orange Prize, The Lieutenant is a story of unlikely friendship, a voyage across oceans and a journey…

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Restless Dolly Maunder

Kate Grenville

The Women's Prize-winning and Booker-shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life

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A Room Made of Leaves

Kate Grenville

The beautifully wrought new novel - from the Man Booker prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River - tells a story of passion and resilience, giving voice to a woman silenced…

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The Secret River

Kate Grenville

A deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia’s dark history, adapted from Kate Grenville’s acclaimed novel.

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A Room Made Of Leaves

Kate Grenville

The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, best-selling author Kate Grenville.

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A Room Made Of Leaves

Kate Grenville

The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, best-selling author Kate Grenville.

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The Secret River

Kate Grenville

‘Grenville, as ever, describes an Australia so overwhelmingly beautiful that readers will lust after its sunbaked soul too’ Daily Telegraph

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The Lieutenant

Kate Grenville

Set a quarter of a century before The Secret River, at the moment when the British arrive in Australia, The Lieutenant tells an unforgettable story about friendship, language and power.

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The Lieutenant

Kate Grenville

Set a quarter of a century before The Secret River, at the moment when the British arrive in Australia, The Lieutenant tells an unforgettable story about friendship, language and power.

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The Secret River

Kate Grenville

‘Grenville, as ever, describes an Australia so overwhelmingly beautiful that readers will lust after its sunbaked soul too’ Daily Telegraph

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Making Stories

Kate Grenville,Sue Woolfe

Making Stories shows ten acclaimed Australian authors at work.

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The Secret River

Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville’s modern classic of one man’s loss, struggle and survival in the Australian wilderness, introduced by Diana Athill

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