'Winner of the Vance Palmer Award for Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Prize, 1995. Albion Gidley Singer creates his world as a vast collection of facts...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:592
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781921351297
The author, with her incomparable skill and insight, introduces us to a man - a respectable man, wrapped snugly in the costume of status - and opens him up to show us the fear and hatred that drive him. 'Dark Places' revists Grenville's earlier work 'Lilian's Story'...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781921520259
Albion Gidley Singer creates his world as a vast collection of facts-facts he uses to support his own power and status. After an awkward childhood...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9780702233319
Bearded Ladies and Dreamhouse are combined here in one volume, back to-back. Bearded Ladies was Kate's first book, a collection of short stories. Dreamhouse evokes the mystery and menace underpinning everyday life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:360
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9780702233302
This wonderfully irreverant novel rewrites 200-odd years of Australia's past. Joan is a wife and mother of no great distinction but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781921351785
Daniel Rooke, soldier and astronomer, was always an outsider. As a young lieutenant of marines he arrives in New South Wales on the First Fleet in 1788...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781459632134
The heartwarming story of Lilian Singer, who starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle - class Australian family and ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag - lady living on the streets...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:530
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781741754902
'Dazzling fiction of universal appeal' Patrick White'A work of considerable beauty and power...told with great honesty and virtuosity.' - New York Times Book ReviewThis is the story of Lilian Singer...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9780156001236
Madness, cruelty, and sexuality permeate the household in which Lilian Una Singer is raised-an upper-crust Victorian world of teacups and servants. But Lilian...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
Winner, Australian/Vogel Literary Award 1994 This is the story of Lilian Singer, born on 'a wild night in the year of Federation' into a stifling household which totally fails to subdue her. Madness...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781921758515
From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things fitted together. He never called me Dolly, the way the others did...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
'Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:260
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ISBN:9781742123059
Set in London, Sydney and the Hawkesbury, this book describes Kate Grenville's search for her convict ancestor, and her quest to make his life into a novel. Grenville tells us how she began to write The Secret River...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:240
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781921145391
The extraordinary srory of how Kate came to write her award winning novel. It begins with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman, transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River moved and exhilarated many people when it was first published in 2005. Readers marvelled at the subtlety of its language...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:232
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ISBN:9780733391002
Tells an extraordinary story of how Kate came to write her award- winning novel, beginning with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman, who was transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life....more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:272
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9780733390234
In 1806 William Thornhill is transported for life from the slums of London to New South Wales. His arrival with wife Sal and their children at first feels like a death sentence. But Thornhill discovers the colony can turn a person into a free man and eight years later he sails up the Hawkesbury and claims his own patch of ground. However...more details Format:CD-Audio
Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781459620049
'Shortlisted for the NSW, QLD and WA Premiers Literary Awards, The Lieutenant is the profoundly moving tale of a young soldier's arrival in Australia on the First Fleet and the extraordinary friendship he develops with the local Aboriginal people. Daniel Rooke...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:552
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ISBN:9781742017150
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:320
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9780802119162
A stunning follow-up to her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning book, The Secret River, Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant is a gripping story about friendship...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:307
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781742140582
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9780802145031
A stunning follow-up to her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning book, The Secret River, Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant is a gripping story about friendship...more details Format:Paperback Pages:307
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781459620032
'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:620
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9780642589576
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781841959146
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thomhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the terms of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children to tow...more details Format:Paperback Pages:334
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781841957975
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thomhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the terms of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children to tow...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:334
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781920885755
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781921145254
William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
A dramatic historical novel set between the slums of 19th century London and the convict colonies of Australia. This book joins a tradition of grand historical action. It etches the intense light and scribble of the Australian bush...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:368
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781841958286
William Thornhill is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, for which he and his family are made to pay dearly...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Kate Grenville
ISBN:9781864489439
A workbook that offers down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for anyone interested in getting started or honing their creative writing skills. ?The Writing Book? doesn't just talk about how to write fiction; it takes you...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
Do you find yourself staring at a blank piece of paper, waiting for the words to pour out?
If you find writing difficult, this book is for you. Award-winning novelist Kate Grenville shares her method-the 'Six Steps' approach to writing. Whether you're writing a short story...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Kate Grenville;Kate Greenville
ISBN:9780156002417
In this "startling, fasciniating, disturbing" (Library Journal) companion to Lilian's Story, Kate Grenville takes on a daunting challenge: to imagine...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Kate Grenville and Sue Woolfe
ISBN:9781865086132
Good writers make writing look easy - but is it? Anyone learning to write will be encouraged by Making Stories - it shows that even our greatest novelists come to their books by a long and uncertain process.
Making Stories shows ten acclaimed Australian authors at work...more details Format:Paperback Pages:312
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Grenville Kate
ISBN:9781921520488
Lieutenant Daniel Rooke, a brilliant young astronomer, sails on the First Fleet full of hope and ambition. New South Wales is a land waiting for scientific discovery: this is where he will make his mark.
He sets up an observatory. But his attention soon shifts from the stars to Tagaran...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Grenville Kate
ISBN:9781921656767
In 1787 Lieutenant Thomas Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Grenville Kate
ISBN:9781742373720
This is the story of Lilian Singer, born on 'a wild night in the year of Federation' in to a stifling household which totally fails to subdue her. Madness...more details Format:Hardback Pages:336
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Grenville Kate
ISBN:9781921520341
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Grenville Kate
ISBN:9781742373881
A completely practical workbook that offers down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for writers or aspiring writers to get you started and to keep you going.
The Writing Book doesn't just talk about how to write fiction; it takes you...more details Format:Paperback Pages:226
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Grenville Kate
ISBN:9781742333427
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science...more details Format:CD-Extra