Edenhope by Louise Le Nay
34.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024
The warm, heroic story of a grandmother's determination to save her family from themselves. Marnie is sixty-three and downwardly mobile. Her middle-class marriage is long gone, her only child more or less estranged. She's living in a granny flat behind a stranger's house. Still, things could be worse. S ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
32.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024 | Reading Level: very good
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending hi ...Show more
Death of a Foreign Gentleman by Steven Carroll
32.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024 | Series: Stephen Minter Ser.
Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, with shades of The Third Man and Brighton Rock. Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher who is in Ca ...Show more
Sidelines by Karen Viggers
32.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024
A teenage sports game descends into a brawl after a controversial line call in a fast-paced contemporary novel from the bestselling author of The Orchardist's Daughter. When a violent brawl erupts at a suburban junior soccer game, some onlookers are shocked. But others saw it coming. Rivalry, parental ...Show more
Aboriginal Australians: a History Since.. by Richard Broome
39.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024
In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for powe ...Show more
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
39.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull
50.00 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024
For Natalie Paull, baking is a gift. It's also a powerful elixir of pleasure, connection, generosity and joy. In Beatrix Bakes, Natalie indulges in baking's sweetest moments with more than seventy recipes inspiring bakers of all kinds to mix and match to make recipes their own - whether it's a Lemon cur ...Show more
In the Clearing: Now a Disney+ Star Original Series by J.P. Pomare
22.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024
Set against a ticking clock, this "taut and unpredictable" thriller pits a ruthless cult against a mother's love, revealing that our darkest secrets are the hardest ones to leave behind (Chris Hammer). Four days to go Amy has only ever known life in the Clearing, amidst her brothers and sisters--until a ...Show more
Life as I know It: Michelle Payne by HARMS JOHN PAYNE MICHELLE
32.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024
Michelle Payne rode into history as the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. She and her 100-to-1 local horse Prince of Penzance took the international racing world by surprise but hers was no overnight success story. Michelle was first put on a horse aged four. At five years old her dream was ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
39.95 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024 | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
22.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more
Orchardist's Daughter by Karen Viggers
22.99 AUD
Category: Dunkeld Writers Festival 2024
Sixteen-year-old Mikaela has grown up isolated and homeschooled on an apple orchard in southeastern Tasmania, until an unexpected event shatters her family. Eighteen months later, she and her older brother Kurt are running a small business in a timber town. Miki longs to make connections and spend more ...Show more