In The Americans, Baby the milieu is a Sydney under-40 population who, hoping that being earnest or outrageous will make them feel real, are left saturated with anxiety instead. An inherent resistance to American cultural intrusions and the risks that those from a great powerful land such as the US take when they meddle in another culture (they can be snared...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781863952453
Australia's great modern writer, Frank Moorhouse, has collected Australia's finest short fiction from the last twelve months, showcasing the art of the well-crafted story...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781741661262
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740511438
As the conference participants settle in with their name tags and satchels, as they sort out amongst themselves their seating arrangements and gently jostle for positions at the bar bistro...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9780749081720
The six-six-Sixties were the Devil's decade. Following the rise of Satanism through from the Sixties onwards, this work examines the key cases and delves into the lives of the perpetrators...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9780091836757
This book, winner of the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award, confirms Frank Moorhouse as one of Australia's greatest writers. A companion volume to 'Grand Days'...more details Format:Paperback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740511391
DAYS OF WINE AND RAGE explores the tempo and shifts in mores and style of a dynamic decade - the 70s - in Australia's cultural development. Deftly interweaving literature and documentary history...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740511421
'I do not care for words in top hats. I believe in shirt-sleeve words. I believe in getting the job done. We're like that on the coast.' T. George McDowell...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740511360
Within Frank Moorhouse's four stories in The Everlasting Secret Family, each complete in itself but together creating a reverberating atmosphere and the suggestion of unrevealed connections...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740511452
He is a failed writer turned diplomat, an anarchist learning the value of discipline. He moves in a world which takes him from the Australian wilderness to the conference rooms of Vienna and Geneva; from the whore-house to warzone he feels the pull of the genetic spiral of his ancestry...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740511384
In some ways, the people in these stories are a tribe - a modern, urban tribe - which does not fully recognise itself as such. Some of the people are central members of the tribe while others are hermits who live on the fringe. The shared environment is both internal - anxieties...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740510370
'An irreducibly rich, sustained and complex work of the imagination.' THE INDEPENDENT Moorhouse has for a long time been one of the most original and professional of Australian writers in the world of literature and English. Grand Days is the summit of this achievement.' GEOFFREY DUTTON...more details Format:Paperback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781742752686
On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9780091841621
This irreverent and hilarious book is set in an imaginary statutory body called the Office of the Inspector-General of Misconception. The book satirises our current appetite for Official Inquiries...more details Format:Paperback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740513616
At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all - the martini - and a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740513128
J.D. Rockefeller is said to have once remarked to friends: 'Before choosing your hotel, order a martini cocktail at the bar. Then you'll know if the hotel is good enough for you...' At once a celebration of the most elegant...more details Format:Hardback
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9780749081553
The six-six-Sixties were the Devil's Decade. With its heady cocktail of glamour and gore, it's no wonder dissatisfied youth have been drawn back to those years time and time again in search of inspiration - mostly artistic...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:283
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9780749082321
Attempts to understand the disposition of the people that commit Satanic killings, by returning back to their childhoods. This book trawls through the carnage left by some of the most dangerous and unpredictable killers in history....more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Frank Moorhouse
ISBN:9781740511445
In an odyssey which moves across a world stage. Tales of Mystery and Romance touches high comedy and low farce - the non-event of the Jack Kerouac Wake...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Moorhouse Frank
ISBN:9781742752709
Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early grand days has been eroded by a sense foreboding as the world moves ever closer to another war. Edith's life too...more details Format:Paperback / softback