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Murray Bail,Murray Bail
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…
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Murray Bail
Winner National Book Council Award for Australian Literature. Winner Age Book of the Year Award. Introduction by Peter Conrad. It could almost have been their own country: these sections with…
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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…
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Tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942.
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…
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…
Fragments and reflections from the life of a revered Australian writer
Thirteen men and women on a world tour, a package of pool-sides, museums, hotels and shops. But no matter where they go they find nothing as they expected. Challenged by…
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Superb and surprising new fiction is found in this major new collection from the Australian master. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. It is clear in all…
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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Originally published: Melbourne, Vic.: The Text Pub. Co., 1998.
At once a modern fairy tale and a marvelously touching love story, played out against the mesmerizing backdrop of Australia, Eucalyptus tells the story of a beautiful young woman, whose…
Michael Ackland
Murray Bail is one of the most boldly innovative and intellectually challenging of contemporary writers. He is widely appreciated in his homeland, Australia. Although a casual reading of Bail’s work…
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In order to marry Ellen Holland, a suitor must identify every species of the five hundred trees on her family’s property in Australia, a test set by her possessive father…
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On a country property a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum…
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
