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Foe by J. M. Coetzee; Peter Goldsworthy (Introduction by)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With electrical intensity of language and insight, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. The stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly movin ...Show more
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a strange dance with his stalker. A father gives his daughter a Christmas present with a disturbing history. An ugly sports parent plays a game of ridiculous ...Show more
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The characters in these unsettling stories, of which there are six short and two long, want things that run counter to their sense of themselves. They're drawn outside their comfort zone into situations that are sometimes amusing, sometimes undignifying, never quite what they expect.
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's applied his fascination with that stage of life to his own, from his bizarre first memories to the embarrassments of adolescence. For all his working life Goldsworthy has been both ...Show more
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAESTRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one ...Show more
Minotaur by Peter Goldsworthy
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Peter Goldsworthy's new novel features a blind detective determined to deliver justice to the man who shot him, even though his failed assassin has broken out of jail and is equally determined to finish the job. Cleverly structured around the five senses, and with the action confined to one week, it's ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Wish: Text Classics by Peter Goldsworthy
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
'I'm not deaf, but I've always felt more at home in Sign. Both my parents are deaf. Deaf as posts. Deaf as adders, deaf as beetles. And proud as peacocks, Deaf Pride long before there was a word, or a sign, for it. I learnt to speak with my hands from birth; there was no other way of reaching my parents ...Show more
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