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Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book A New York Times Notable Book of 1998 "There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour -- You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel -- one of the great and most surprising courtships in literat ...Show more
He by Murray Bail
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
Homesickness - Text Classics by Bail Murray
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but n ...Show more
"The Drover's Wife" and Other Stories by Bail Murray
23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 stories. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban ...Show more
The Pages by Murray Bail
23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
At dawn, two women leave Sydney to drive over the Blue Mountains, into the dry outback landscape and the home of the late philosopher Wesley Antill. A man who thought his name too light for a philosopher, and his ears outlandish. Erica, a philosopher herself, has been asked by her university to review W ...Show more
The Voyage by Murray Bail
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna? Perhaps he should have ...Show more
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