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Australia Under Surveillance by Frank Moorhouse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom of journalists. At a time when the government has raised the terrorist aler ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
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. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the oldest cities of the world to live in the newest city of the world - she had ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
"Winner of the Queensland Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Prize.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. Edith Campbell Berry, who joined the League i ...Show more
Dark Palace (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Edith Trilogy
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award.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 Dayshas been eroded by a sense foreboding as the world moves ever closer t ...Show more
Dark Palace: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2001 (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Palais des Nations Ser.
On the night of October 15, 1931, Edith Campbell Berry is in the dining room of the Hotel des Bergues in Geneva, celebrating in the renewal of her contract as an officer of the league of nations. However, times are changing, for Edith and for the League. The grand days of early idealism and optimism are ...Show more
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. 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, and allows him to kiss her passionately.Their early intimacy binds them t ...Show more
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Edith Trilogy
"Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. 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, and allows him to kiss her passionately.Their early intimacy binds them t ...Show more
Martini - A Memoir by Frank Moorhouse
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
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, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all - the martini - and a lyrical memoir ...Show more
The Drover's Wife: A Collection by Frank Moorhouse
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography
Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of Drover's Wife works, stories and images.The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 has become an Australian icon.Other versions of the Lawson stor ...Show more
The Electrical Experience by MOORHOUSE, FRANK
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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, a manufacturer of soft drinks on the south coast of New South Wales, prides himself on extolling the virtues of progress. He is a Rotarian and expo ...Show more
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