An urgent generational novel by a talented Australian writer. When two frustrated artists take jobs at a remote weather station in Australia's Northern Territory--in hopes of finding solitude and inspiration--their journey affords an unflinching...more details Format:Paperback Pages:324
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9781741147735
A lighthouse. A weather station, thousands of miles away. For six months. I drank steadily. With alcohol it all made sense.'
It's the Bicentennial year and for Gordon failed writer and bottleshop boy it seems his life is going nowhere. It's time to escape. From his overcrowded house...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:324
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9781459612884
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel. It's a decade since the infamous Inquiry into corruption tore the state of Queensland apart. But for George Verney...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:461
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9780642564467
It's a decade since the infamous inquiry into corruption tore the state of Queensland apart. But for George Verney, disgraced journalistand bit-player in the great scandals of his day...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9781865084060
It's a decade since the infamous Inquiry into corruption tore the state of Queensland apart. But for George Verney, disgraced journalist and bit-player in the great scandals of his day...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year, the Queensland Premier's Literary
Award and winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel.
It's a decade since the infamous Inquiry into corruption tore the state of Queensland apart. But for George Verney...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:384
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9780312187545
The Bukowski-inspired first novel that made McGahan a cult bestseller Down Under, "Praise" is urgent, raw, and piercingly truthful, as it explores the ground between dreams and the self-destruction of an entire generation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9781865080062
A stunningly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in Australia. About living in a world where drugs and alcohol dominate, where sex scalds and soothes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
Winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9780642564542
His father is dead, his mother plagued by demons and William finds himself living in a massive station homestead - once the rural centrepiece of the Darling Downs - now a faded ruin owned by his embittered uncle...more details Format:CD-Audio
A grand, pulsating novel about the power of the land and the passions of people trying to make it their own. McGahan has written a major new Australian novel.
One spring day in late 1992...more details Format:Paperback Pages:392
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9780908156863
White Earth - When 8 year old William witnesses his father burn to death in a freak farming accident, William and his sickly mother are cast upon the charity of a mysterious uncle...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9780733390326
White Earth: McIvor, a hard and driven man, is organising a rally against the Act, whilst at the same time, testing William as a potential heir of Kuran House. His mother is desperate for the security and wealth she has never had...more details Format:CD-Audio
"The saga of the McIvors is nothing less than a grim and supremely entertaining take on colonialism in Australia and the tortured, stained hearts of all its New World cousins. A-."-Entertainment Weekly "McGahan scrutinizes his characters without puppetry...more details Format:Paperback Pages:376
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9781569474174
Praise for "The White Earth":
"Tremendous narrative skill . . . a lean, intelligent, and incisive novel."-"The Sydney Morning Herald"
"These characters . . . could have stepped from the pages of a Dickens novel. . . . At one level a suspenseful gothic thriller. At another it's a national allegory...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:376
A haunting, powerful novel about the power of the land and the passions of people trying to make it their own. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 2005. His father dead by fire and his mother plagued by demons of her own...more details Format:Hardback Pages:448
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9781459612877
Underground is the novel that at least half the country has been waiting for. Think ahead five or so years from now, to an Australia transformed by the never-ending war on terror. Canberra has been wiped out in a nuclear attack. There is a permanent state of emergency. Security checkpoints...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:375
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9780733390821
Think ahead five or so years or so from now, to an Australia transformed by the war on terror. Canberra has been wiped out in a nuclear attack. There is a permanent state of emergency. Our worst fears of loss of liberty have been realised - and no one wants to play cricket with us anymore.
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9781741149319
Underground is the novel that at least half the country has been waiting for.
Think ahead five or so years from now, to an Australia transformed by the never-ending war on terror. Canberra has been wiped out in a nuclear attack. There is a permanent state of emergency. Security checkpoints...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
Underground is the novel that at least half the country has been waiting for.
Think ahead five or so years from now, to an Australia transformed by the never-ending war on terror. Canberra has been wiped out in a nuclear attack. There is a permanent state of emergency. Security checkpoints...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:324
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Andrew McGahan
ISBN:9781741146127
A haunting, powerful novel about the power of the land and the passions of people trying to make it their own. One spring day in late 1992...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:396
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Andrew Mcgahan
ISBN:9781459632165
A grand, pulsating novel about the power of the land and the passions of people trying to make it their own. McGahan has written a major new Australian novel. One spring day in late 1992...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:670
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McGahan Andrew
ISBN:9781742376479
From the award-winning author of Praise and The White Earth comes a magnificent young adult series about dominion and defiance, set upon the grey seas of a strange and compelling world ...
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'If you go to sea...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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McGahan Andrew
ISBN:9781742373713
One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he looked out from the back verandah of his home and saw...more details Format:Hardback Pages:392
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McGahan Andrew
ISBN:9781741758092
On an unnamed island, in a Gothic hospital sitting in the shadow of a volcano, a wordless orphan girl works on the wards housing the insane and the incapable. When a silent...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:260
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McGahan Andrew
ISBN:9781742373676
On an unnamed island, in a Gothic hospital sitting in the shadow of a volcano, a wordless orphan girl works on the wards housing the insane and the incapable. When a silent...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336