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Camouflage by Murray Bail
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the Miles Franklin award-winning author Murray Bail. The brilliant title story 'Camoflauge' tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942. Accompanying it is one of Bail's masterly pieces of short fiction, 'The Seduction of my Sister'.
Eucalyptus: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999 by Murray Bail
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
On a country property a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of species of gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision: she will marry the man who can name each eucalypt, down to ...Show more
He by Murray Bail
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, 'he wouldn't know what day it is'. An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiogr ...Show more
Homesickness - Text Classics by Bail Murray
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Text Classics
"It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but n ...Show more
"The Drover's Wife" and Other Stories by Bail Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Here is the updated edition of Murray Bail's remarkable collection of short stories, first published in 1975. In addition to established classics such as 'The Drover's Wife'and 'Huebler', this edition includes a number of new stories. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban ...Show more
The Voyage by Murray Bail
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe. How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna? Perhaps he should have ...Show more
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