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Randolph Stow
Set in the desolate outback landscape of Australia’s north-west, the novel tracks the last days of a worn-out Anglican missionary. Fleeing his mission after an agonising confrontation, he immerses himself…
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In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war…
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Gabrielle Carey
Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan’s childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter…
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Randolph Stow (1935-2010) was a writer who resisted critical containment. His complete oeuvre of eight novels, a children’s novella, a libretto, translation work and several collections of poetry presents an…
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Even though Midnite was 17, he wasn’t very bright. So when his father died, his five animal friends decided to look after him. Khat, the Siamese, suggested he become a…
Randolph Stow’s most surreal and allegorical novel, a bleak but comic staging of human frailty and the need for belief.
Inspired by a real-life serial killer, this disturbing psychological drama is the final work of one of Australia’s greatest writers.
An investigation into a Patrol Officer’s suicide in New Guinea leads to revelations about his secret past.
Suzanne Falkiner
Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission…
Brings together selected works of one of Australia’s finest poets. Including previously uncollected pieces, the volume’s wide ranging introduction provides a rich context for the work of this extraordinary and…
A novel by the 1979 Patrick White Literary Award winner. Crispin Clare has nearly died at the age of 24. Convalescing in Suffolk, he is drawn from his psychic isolation…
The haunting and beautiful tale of an aged missionary’s final days. A psychic drama of pride, guilt, atonement and self-discovery.
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In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when…
A novel by the 1979 Patrick White Literary Award winner. It is the story of a comatose Australian country town and its people, and an exploration of questions of life…
Weaving old-English legends with contemporary fables, Randolph Stow has created an exceptional story of loss and exile.
Set on a Papuan island in 1959, this is a tale of magic and mystery.
A semi-autobiographical account of Rob Coram’s growth from the age of six to fourteen, in the West Australian coastal town of Geraldton, and its surrounding pastoral districts, in the 1930s…
