Robert Drewe

Sand
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921361883
RRP: $27.95

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 drawn. For Drewe and Kinsella, it evokes the memories - both personal and cultural - that ...

The Best Australian Essays 2010
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863954945
RRP: $29.95

This year's Best Australian Essays offers riveting snapshots of the nation's 'current loves and angers, its art and myths and amusements and gender concerns and its propensity for bushfires.' From Alex Miller on the creative imagination to Mark Dapin on crime myths, from Amanda Hooton on Miss Universe to Tim Flannery on the inner lives of animals, this is a collection that takes ...

Popular Penguins: Our Sunshine
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143204763
RRP: $9.95

Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative re-creation of the inner life of Ned Kelly is written with a brilliant clarity and impressionistic economy. It carries the reader into a dreamworld of astonishing and violent revelation, an entrancing and frightening landscape of murder, sexuality, persecution, robbery, vanity, politics, and c...

Rip
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143009665
RRP: $24.95

Internationally acclaimed novelist Robert Drewe returns to the short-story territory he has made his own. Set against the backdrop of 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 disg...

Popular Penguins: The Bodysufers
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143180241
RRP: $9.95

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. 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 Bodysufers
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143180135
RRP: $24.95

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy sensuality, all the while hinting at a deep undercurrent of suburban malaise. From first publica...

Grace
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143005322
RRP: $26.95

Some relevant facts about Grace Malloy. Apart from being named after a 100 000-year-old skeleton, she was twenty-nine and for much of the past three years she'd been hiding from an erotomaniac. Physically and emotionally besieged, Grace attempts to claw back from her personal territory by abandoning her inner-city life as a film reviewer and fleeing to the remoteness of the Kimberley - where...

The Shark Net
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143002154
RRP: $26.95

Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness. Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers - variously shooting, strangling, stabbing, bludgeoning and hacking his victims and running them...

The Bodysurfers
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141008011
RRP: $24.95

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - 'The Bodysurfers' is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and which has been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, 'The Bodysurfers', on its first publication, marked a major change in Australian literatu...

The Drowner
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141008028
RRP: $26.95

In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidently collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes them from the Wiltshire Downs to the most elemental choices of life and death in the Australian desert. Their intense romance is but part of the daring story that unfolds. Mingling history, myth and technology wi...

The Savage Crows
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141007991
RRP: $24.95

This revelatory story of the most tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history - the 'saving' of a unique race, the Tasmanian Aborigines - is seen through the eyes of an obsessive young present-day narrator. Breathtaking and visionary in its scope, 'The Savage Crows' breaks new fictional ground in its affecting portrayal of the collision of worlds, generat...

Sand
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921696893
RRP: $36.95

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A Cry In The Jungle Bar
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141008004

Big, bullish Dick Cullen, light sleeper, former rugby star and present expert on water buffalo, is lumbering through his tour of duty with a UN agency in Asia. Totally out of his depth among his small, deft, knowing colleagues, he lurches sweatily from bar to bar across various tropical states of emergency. Only in the Nameless Nightclub does he realise it is just a matter of time before his night...

A Cry In The Jungle Bar
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330271073

An allegory of the Australian experience in Asia. 'A Cry in the Jungle Bar', Drewe's second novel, was first published in 1979, to international acclaim. 1992 Robert Drewe was awarded an Australian Creative Artist's Fellowship by the Prime Minister of Australia....

Fortune
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141007977

A tale of passion and pursuit, 'Fortune' is the story of Don Spargo, a modern explorer who finds a sunken treasure ship off the West Australian coast and becomes a folk hero, a lover, and a hunted and haunted man. Suspenseful, satirical and deeply moving, this novel challenges the nature of reality and legend in those scenes of modern conflict - from the media to art, from politics to cri...

Fortune
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330270618

There was a ship called the "Fortuyn", owned by the Dutch East India Company and commanded by Pieter Westrik, which sailed on her maiden voyage to Batavia in 1723. However, when this "Fortuyn" left the Cape of Good Hope on 18 January 1724, she was never heard of again. Complex and thoughtful, lyrical and satiric, this curious literary comic strip flirts with personal and national...

Grace
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670886685

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Our Sunshine
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330272476

'Our Sunshine' is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Taking the country's greatest mythological character and creating his own imaginary life for him, Drew presents an unsentimental, compassionate and sensual portrait of the boy and killer who became both the National Hero and the Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes. Succeeding in turning myth to funny, savage, commonplac...

Our Sunshine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732909390

The tale of a man who out grew his life. Drewe has taken the country's greatest mythological character and created his own imaginary life for him, presenting a sensual, unsentimental and compassionate portrait of the boy and killer who became both National Hero and the Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes. Drewe portrays Ned Kelly and his adolescent gang both as young Horsemen of the Apocalypse ...

Our Sunshine: Ned Kelly
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143001560

Now a major motion picture titled 'Ned Kelly', starring Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush and Orlando Bloom. Ned Kelley'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 c...

The Bay Of Contented Men
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141007960

Witty and seductive, inventive and disturbing, this book ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Australians whose desires and misadventures are conjured here into intriguing fictions. Robert Drewe's characters face the confrontation of gender, race and generation with an ironic desperation...

The Bay Of Contented Men
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330270922

This collection of stories is not merely a reflection but an illumination of contemporary Australia, with narrative ranging from a single incident of situation - finding a machete in your front lawn one morning, children's reception of the fact of death - to fluid and complex issues of suggestion and relationships. But time and again contentment, hope or at least a dignified refusal to despai...

The Bodysurfers
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330270984

'The Bodysurfers' has made Australian literary history, a short story collection which not only became a bestseller but has been adapted for television, radio and film and performed on stage....

The Drowner
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330360128

The romance of bringing water to the desert is at the heart of this ambitious and kaleidoscopic novel, beautifully written in prose as slippery and sensuous as the life-giving liquid itself. A luxuriant and meditative narrative of the elemental and the sensual, the scientific and the miraculous, Robert Drewe has moved into the forefront of contemporary writing in English where myth, magic and melo...

The Penguin Book Of The Beach
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141007984

For the past century the average Australian has conducted a lifelong love affair with the beach - with the ocean shores, bays, dunes, lagoons and rivers of the coast. Not until now, however, has anyone attempted to match the ancient sensual and artistic preoccupation with the sea and water myths to the modern intuitive appreciation of the coast felt by the world's great beachgoers, the Austral...

The Penguin Book of the City
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140267808

Symbol of humanity's energy, optimism, art and civilisation, the city is the fount of intellectual and sexual freedom - a continuing source of wonder and modernity. And yet, in an uncaring mood, the city can be overbearing, anonymous, alienating, even savage - with the ability to chill the soul. The urban life, with all its challenges, pleasures and angst, is the theme of The Penguin Book of t...

The Penguin Book Of The City
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141007779

Symbol of humanity's energy, optimism, art and civilisation, the city is the fount of intellectual and sexual freedom - a continuing source of wonder and modernity. And yet, in an uncaring mood, the city can be overbearing, anonymous, alienating, even savage - with the ability to chill the soul. The urban life, with all its challenges, pleasures and angst, is the theme of this book, an outsta...

The Rip
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780241015360

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 seeking his Eve; sharing the fears of a small boy in a coastal classroom as a tsunami approaches; ...

The Savage Crows
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330270830

Robert Drewe's ambitious first novel of a young man's coming to terms with himself and with Australian history was published to international acclaim. It conveys to the outsider both the atmosphere of a sleazy suburban, present-day Australia and also a savage, beautiful space/time hinterland and epitomises, perceptively and entertainingly, the angst of a generation....

The Shark Net
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141002545

Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquility and friendliness. Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew....

The Shark Net
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670868193

At 6 years old, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to the West Australian coast, to grow up in the sea and sand dunes around Perth. An isolated city, it was innocently proud of its tranquillity and friendliness. Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed 8 strangers in variously horrific ways and innocent Perth was changed forever. In the middle-cla...

Walking Ella: Ruminations Of A Reluctant Dog-Walker
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670029624

It occurs to me that it might be cathartic to write a dog-walker's journal: the true, unsentimental ruminations of a dog-walker with things on his mind more important than dogs. A dog-walker who, frankly, prefers humans. A dog-walker who decides to make the most of this begrudged walk to mull over writing ideas and dilemmas. A prickly, grumpy, even sometimes hungover dog-walker. ...