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Set during the Gold Rush days, The Promised Land concludes Mudrooroo's fantastical voyage through the history of Australia around the time of its colonisation by the British. This is satire at its most cutting, and entertaining.<br /> <br />Sir George Augustus returns to the Great South Land with his young wife, Lady Lucy, intending to establish a mission to educate and 'Christianise' the native people. When he hears that gold has been found on the land, his missionary...
| Автор | Mudrooroo |
The Poet ' is a tale of obsession, art, and the thresholds between day and night. Manfred is a nondescript insurance clerk, inflexibly honest and imbued with a profound sense of order. He is also a prolific poet, but has never tried to publish – until now. The novella traces the events and experiences that befall Manfred in the wake of a single moment's carelessness, a mistake that will change his life. He enters a maze he must negotiate, between action and paralysis, inspiration and...
| Автор | Alex Skovron |
By the firelight, a mysterious storyteller weaves a captivating tale of sea journeys, vampire women, and Aboriginal Dreaming. Around the campfire the gold diggers listen and journey with George as he plunges underground to rescue his ship's captain from the horrific and mesmerising vampire woman.<br /> <br />Jangamuttuk, the Master of the Ghost Dreaming, sends his son, George, to rescue Wadawaka from the 'ghost' vampire woman who has taken him as her 'Dark...
| Автор | Mudrooroo |
The Kwinkan is a satirical parable surrounding a mysterious narrator who is part-politician, part Queensland property developer, and the forces at work in the Asia-Pacific region. It deals with international corporatism, political ambitions in an age of decaying colonialism, the clashes of competing mythologies, and the play of the dark, atavistic powers which manifest themselves in sexual disease and violence. These forces act on the characters, sometimes to unite strange bedfellows and at...
| Автор | Mudrooroo |
Eric Judd is 39 and his girlfriend wants him to give up playing football. Eric (aka Mr Cleansheets) is a goalkeeping legend at his amateur Sydney club because in his youth he received a letter inviting him to trial with Manchester United. The letter said to 'come when you're ready' – and six days before his 40th birthday, Eric is finally ready.<br /> <br />Inspired by the dying wish of his Uncle Jimmy, Eric travels to England, but does not quite receive the...
| Автор | Adrian Deans |
Two women worlds apart…<br />one secret that changes everything.<br /> <br />Erin and Laura are cousins and best friends who share a love of languages and travel.<br /> <br />Erin, a French teacher in Dublin, reaches crisis point and drops everything to move to Australia. In Sydney, not only does she land the perfect job, but she meets the perfect man. Finally, her life is falling into place. Except Sydney isn't home, and never can be.<br /> <br...
| Автор | Ber Carroll |
A daring and thrilling journey into a fantastical world of shamans, vampires and werebears where aboriginal Dreaming and Gothic horror are woven together to create a powerful and seamless narrative.<br /> <br />I, the stranger with strange habits which make me avoid the full light of day, enter into the warm circle of your fire and will exchange my yarn for your company…<br /> <br />The stranger, George, tells a story of wonder and horror. Jangamuttuk, his father and...
| Автор | Mudrooroo |
'Well, I can dream can't I? Dream? – nightmares, more like it. All I have to do is dream, dream, dream, scream… I'm now walking through this posh suburb, walking? – more like slinking. Wildcat on the prowl. Naw, though maybe checking out the streets for a bust. Eyes dart this way, that way, all ways, focus, man, on the main chance. Take it and break it real good; but is there any chances left? Not with my luck!' Wildcat is out of prison, but not for long. In this...
| Автор | Mudrooroo |
Are some things better left unfound?<br /> <br />Best friends Louise and Emma grew up next door to each other in a grim inner-city suburb of Dublin.<br /> <br />Now Louise, an art conservator, is thousands of miles away in Sydney, restoring a beautiful old painting. She meets Dan, whose family welcome her as one of their own, but she will always feel lost until she finds her mother who walked out when she was just eight years old.<br /> <br />Back in Dublin,...
| Автор | Ber Carroll |
One ordinary mother of two reads Robyn Davidson's 'Tracks'; then emboldened, embarks on a solo bike ride across the Nullarbor. An unlikely stroke of fate leads her to a crazy Frenchman. A love story begins between two headstrong people who rarely spend much time together. And then years later marry. It is also a love story of two distant lands: France and Australia. A contemplation of loss. A thank you letter to two families. And it is for Loup, who first believed, and never let...
| Автор | Robyn Neilson |
Laura Dalton is no stranger to life in the spotlight. She's used to living in the flash of paparazzi cameras, but there's one part of her life that she's always kept private. It's never been a problem – until she meets Eve. Eve's no movie star, but her mesmerising eyes hold mysteries too. All the same, she refuses to be kept a secret. Her passion and desire to live authentically runs counter to Laura's wish to keep her love life out of the tabloids, and the...
| Автор | Kirsten Blyton |
