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Holden’s Performance
From the author of Homesickness and Eucalyptus , comes a brilliant prize-winning novel which tells the life story of Holden Shadbolt, a man who possesses extraordinary gifts. Shortlist Miles Franklin Award 1987.
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Eucalyptus
The author of Homesickness returns with his eagerly awaited book about a man who promises his daughter's hand to any suitor who can name every species of eucalypt planted on his land. Haunting and mesmeric, it illuminates the...
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Homesickness
A package tour of thirteen men and women travel the world, visiting museums, hotels and shops. They are like tourists anywhere, except that wherever they go - Africa, England. South America, New York of Russia - they find nothing...
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The Pages
Erica Hazelhurst, a philosopher from Sydney, has been given a project by her university to work on the papers of the late Wesley Antill (The Pages). She travels across the Blue Mountains to his country property with her...
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Camouflage
Tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942.
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Eucalyptus
On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can names of the...
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He.
Fragments and reflections from the life of a revered Australian writer
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The Voyage
Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe.
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Drover’s Wife & Other Stories
Here is the updated edition of Murray Bail's remarkable collection of short stories, first published in 1975. In addition to established classics such as 'The Drover's Wife' and 'Huebler' , this edition includes a number of new...
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Homesickness: Text Classics
Thirteen men and women travel the world on a package tour but wherever they go nothing is as it seems. Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail's tourists are in turn repelled and attracted-and all are...
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Eucalyptus
On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can names of the...
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Eucalyptus
On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can names of the...
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Holden’s Performance
Holden Shadbolt is a guileless and matter-of-fact innocent passing through the cities and landscapes of Australia. Surrounded by larger-than-life figures, he holds to his own unswaveringly straight lines.
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The Pages
Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise a work. Accompanying her is Sophie who needs a distraction from a string of failed relationships. These two women, each with different views of the world, meet a situation they...
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Voyage
Frank Delage, a middle-aged Australian on the make, arrives in Vienna with the most daring of propositions. But when the sheer audacity of his campaign dawns on him, Delage beats a retreat to the southern hemisphere...
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Eucalyptus: Library Edition
On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can names of the...
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Eucalyptus
On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When she turns 19, Holland announces that...
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Eucalyptus
On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When she turns 19, Holland announces that...
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