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The Drowner by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
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: Short Stories | 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 Penguin Book of the Beach by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Draws together twenty-five of the finest contemporary writers whose stories represent the most stimulating, startling, deeply moving and humorous writing about the beach. This book includes contributions from: Paul Bowles, Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer, Ian McEwa ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Beach by Robert Drewe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This international selection contains 25 stimulating, startling, moving, or humorous stories about the beach. Contributing authors include Paul Bowles, Italo Calvino, Nadine Gorgimer, Raymond Carver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and John Updike.
The Penguin Book of the City by Robert Drewe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Wryly cynical, blackly humorous, these 29 stories by well known writers, are set against the backdrop of the great cities, reflecting their energy and wonder, their alienation and their ability to chill the soul. Authors include Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie and Helen Garner. Robert Drewe is an Australia ...Show more
The Rip by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
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 & Autobiography
"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: Short Stories
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
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
Whipbird by Robert Drewe
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
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