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Montebello by Robert Drewe
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Montebello continues where Robert Drewe's much-loved memoir The Shark Net left off, taking us into his mature years. In the aftermath of events, both man-made and natural, that have left a permanent mark on the landscape and psyche of Western Australia - the British nuclear tests in the Montebello Islan ...Show more
Montebello: A Memoir by Robert Drewe
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Listen to me,' my mother says. 'They've let off an atom bomb today. Right here in W.A. Atom bombs worry the blazes out of me, and I want you at home.' In the sleepy and conservative 1950s the British began a series of nuclear tests in the Montebello archipelago off the west coast of Australia. Even tod ...Show more
Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers. At the age of ten, and just short of four feet tall, a boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sp ...Show more
Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers.At the age of ten, a small boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sporting hero. Against adult com ...Show more
Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Ned Kelly's reputation as an outlaw is growing. To the masses he's a folk hero, but to the Establishment he's the most wanted man in the British Empire--by Royal decree the only person that everyone is permitted to kill. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans a showdown ...Show more
Sand by Robert Drewe
27.95 AUD
Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer Robert Drewe teams up with internationally acclaimed poet John Kinsella to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are d ...Show more
The Beach : An Australian Passion by Robert Drewe
39.99 AUD
Category: TRAVEL
From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe's lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia's most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes of a favourite boat, a capsicum-stre ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2010 by Robert Drewe
29.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
'I wanted to showcase those subjects which thoughtful and talented Australian writers were absorbed by in this particular year; indeed (I thought), wouldn't it be good to show what this country, and its culture, was about in 2010?' - Robert Drewe This year's Best Australian Essaysoffers riveting snapsho ...Show more
The Bodysurfers - Penguin Australian Classics by Robert Drewe
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy se ...Show more
The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
14.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.
The Penguin Book of the Beach by Robert Drewe
29.95 AUD
Category: CLASSICS
Draws together twenty-five of the finest contemporary writers whose stories represent the most stimulating, startling, deeply moving and humorous writing about the beach. This book includes contributions from: Paul Bowles, Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer, Ian McEwa ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more