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Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers.At the age of ten, a small boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sporting hero. Against adult com ...Show more
Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers. At the age of ten, and just short of four feet tall, a boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sp ...Show more
Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Ned Kelly's reputation as an outlaw is growing. To the masses he's a folk hero, but to the Establishment he's the most wanted man in the British Empire--by Royal decree the only person that everyone is permitted to kill. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans a showdown ...Show more
Sand by Robert Drewe
27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer Robert Drewe teams up with internationally acclaimed poet John Kinsella to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are d ...Show more
The Beach : An Australian Passion by Robert Drewe
39.99 AUD
Category: Travel
From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe's lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia's most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes of a favourite boat, a capsicum-stre ...Show more
The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.
The Drowner by Robert Drewe
26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of an intense romance that mingles history, myth and technology and stretches from the Wiltshire Downs to the Australian desert. An engineer and an actress collide at the public baths - thus begins a tale that will encompass elemental choices of life and death.
The Local Wildlife by Robert Drewe
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to northern New South Wales, where the 'local wildlife' doesn't just mean the native fauna, but the people as well. When Robert Drewe moved to this small community, he was expecting a few eccentrics and interesting animals -- and he got them.
The Rip by Robert Drewe
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set against a backdrop - the Australian coast - as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between husbands and wives, children and parents, friends and lovers. You will find yourself set down in a modern Garden of Eden with a disgraced Adam see ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more
The True Colour of the Sea by Robert Drewe
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An artist marooned on a remote island in the Arafura Sea contemplates his survival chances. He understands his desperate plight and the ocean's unrelenting power. But what is its true colour?A beguiling young woman nurses a baby by a lake while hiding brutal scars. Uneasy descendants of a cannibal victi ...Show more
Whipbird by Robert Drewe
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary's new vineyard, Whipbird,six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Hugh has been ...Show more