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Author: Glenda Guest Publisher: Text Publishing ISBN: 1925626318 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 211
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After forty-five years in Sydney, Cassandra Aberline returns to her home town in the Western Australian wheat belt in the same way she left: on the Indian Pacific train. As they cross the emptiness of the vast Australian inland, Cassie travels back through her memories, too, frightened that she’s about to lose them forever—and with them, her last chance to answer the question that has haunted her almost all her life. ‘Platinum sounds expensive,’ she said. ‘But so worth it.’ The travel agent was a master at judging people. ‘And you get so much for it.’ He said a figure that made Cassie laugh. ‘I just want to travel on the train, not buy the bloody thing.’ But she handed over her credit card. After all, she reasoned on the walk home up the hill of Reservoir Street, somehow in three days and nights she must resolve the niggling doubt that has held her to ransom for some forty-odd years—and how could she do that with a stranger opening the door, excusing herself, asking Cassie if she minded, generally just being there? Platinum it had to be. Glenda Guest grew up in the wheat belt of Western Australia and now lives in Merimbula, New South Wales. Her first novel, Siddon Rock, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2010. ‘Guest’s descriptive prose is exquisite...A marvellous read from a talented author.’ BookMooch ‘With insight, intelligence and unexpected tenderness, Guest explores notions of trust and betrayal, identity and responsibility, and in particular, memory and what may be left if it is stripped away.’ Adelaide Advertiser ‘This gentle story is wrapped around a journey on the Indian Pacific train across the vast Australian continent.’ Australian Women’s Weekly ‘A tender novel about how and why we forget.’ New Zealand Herald ‘With its Shakespearean plot dimensions, A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline exists on the plane of memories, where grief can enlarge small events and erase larger ones... An engaging read.’ Newtown Review of Books ‘Guest’s writing is poetic, littered with finely observed descriptions, and musings about the nature of memory and self.’ Saturday Paper ‘A gentle train ride across the Nullarbor and through the frailties of life...Guest’s cadence and visual imagery is superb, the novel oozing with tenderness.’ Herald Sun ‘Guest has given us a character able to ask many of the important questions about a life and its purpose. A thoughtful and challenging story.’ Otago Daily Times ‘A compelling novel...Contemplative and wise.’ ANZ LitLovers ‘Glenda Guest takes a plot worthy of Shakespearean romance and infuses it with vividness, melancholy and an acute sense of place whether she’s writing about the remote outback or Sydney in the 70s.’ Sydney Morning Herald 'This is a contemplative novel, loose, relaxed and spacious...The way we move in and out of experience feels close to life, punctuated with flashes of mystery and significance.’ Australian ‘An absorbing read.’ Whispering Gums
Author: Glenda Guest Publisher: Text Publishing ISBN: 1925626318 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 211
Book Description
After forty-five years in Sydney, Cassandra Aberline returns to her home town in the Western Australian wheat belt in the same way she left: on the Indian Pacific train. As they cross the emptiness of the vast Australian inland, Cassie travels back through her memories, too, frightened that she’s about to lose them forever—and with them, her last chance to answer the question that has haunted her almost all her life. ‘Platinum sounds expensive,’ she said. ‘But so worth it.’ The travel agent was a master at judging people. ‘And you get so much for it.’ He said a figure that made Cassie laugh. ‘I just want to travel on the train, not buy the bloody thing.’ But she handed over her credit card. After all, she reasoned on the walk home up the hill of Reservoir Street, somehow in three days and nights she must resolve the niggling doubt that has held her to ransom for some forty-odd years—and how could she do that with a stranger opening the door, excusing herself, asking Cassie if she minded, generally just being there? Platinum it had to be. Glenda Guest grew up in the wheat belt of Western Australia and now lives in Merimbula, New South Wales. Her first novel, Siddon Rock, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2010. ‘Guest’s descriptive prose is exquisite...A marvellous read from a talented author.’ BookMooch ‘With insight, intelligence and unexpected tenderness, Guest explores notions of trust and betrayal, identity and responsibility, and in particular, memory and what may be left if it is stripped away.’ Adelaide Advertiser ‘This gentle story is wrapped around a journey on the Indian Pacific train across the vast Australian continent.’ Australian Women’s Weekly ‘A tender novel about how and why we forget.’ New Zealand Herald ‘With its Shakespearean plot dimensions, A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline exists on the plane of memories, where grief can enlarge small events and erase larger ones... An engaging read.’ Newtown Review of Books ‘Guest’s writing is poetic, littered with finely observed descriptions, and musings about the nature of memory and self.’ Saturday Paper ‘A gentle train ride across the Nullarbor and through the frailties of life...Guest’s cadence and visual imagery is superb, the novel oozing with tenderness.’ Herald Sun ‘Guest has given us a character able to ask many of the important questions about a life and its purpose. A thoughtful and challenging story.’ Otago Daily Times ‘A compelling novel...Contemplative and wise.’ ANZ LitLovers ‘Glenda Guest takes a plot worthy of Shakespearean romance and infuses it with vividness, melancholy and an acute sense of place whether she’s writing about the remote outback or Sydney in the 70s.’ Sydney Morning Herald 'This is a contemplative novel, loose, relaxed and spacious...The way we move in and out of experience feels close to life, punctuated with flashes of mystery and significance.’ Australian ‘An absorbing read.’ Whispering Gums
Author: Glenda Guest Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 1742743609 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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Winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. 'When Macha Connor came home from the war she walked into town as naked as the day she was born, except for well-worn and shining boots, a dusty slouch hat, and the .303 rifle she held across her waist.' Macha patrols Siddon Rock by night, watching over the town's inhabitants: Brigid, Granna, and all of the Aberline clan; Alistair in Meakin's Haberdashery, with his fine sense of style; Sybil, scrubbing away at the bloodstains in her father's butcher shop; Reverend Siggy, afraid of the outback landscape and the district's magical saltpans; silent Nell with her wild dogs; publican Marg, always accompanied by a cloud of blue; and the new barman, Kelpie Crush. It is only when refugee Catalin Morgenstern and her young son Josis arrive in town that Macha realises there is nothing she can do to keep the townspeople safe.
Author: Alice Nelson Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 0143791192 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them. Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each born on a kibbutz in Israel. They meet years later at a university in California, when Jacob is a successful psychiatrist with a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage. The family moves to a brownstone in Harlem, formerly a convent inhabited by elderly nuns. Outside the house one day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. Unmoored and devastated, Constance and Gabriel quickly come to depend on Marina; and her bond with the little boy intensifies. The pure, blinding love that it is possible to feel for children not our own is the thread that weaves through The Children's House. When Marina learns some disturbing news about her long-disappeared mother, Gizela, she leaves New York in search of the loose ends of her life. As Christmas nears, her tight-knit, loving family, along with Constance and Gabriel, join Marina in her mother's former home, with a startling consequence, an act that will transform all of their lives forever. Alice Nelson skilfully weaves together these shared stories about the terrible things humans are capable of into a beautifully told, hope-filled novel exploring the profound consolations that we can find in each other.
Author: Moreno Giovannoni Publisher: Black Inc. ISBN: 1743820542 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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San Ginese is a village where God lingers in people’s minds and many dream of California, Argentina or Australia. Some leave only to return feeling disheartened, wishing they had never come back, some never leave and forever wish they had. The Fireflies of Autumn takes us to the olive groves and piazzas of this little-known Tuscan village. There we meet Bucchione, who was haunted by the Angel of Sadness; Lo Zena, his neighbour, with whom he feuded for forty years; Tommaso the Killer, the Adulteress, the Dead Boy and many others. These are tales of war and migration, feasts and misfortunes – of a people and their place over the course of the twentieth century. ‘I have never read a migrant tale so original, so breathtaking in scope, or so magical. I have not since stopped thinking about the characters in San Ginese.’ ALICE PUNG ‘Astonishing in the seductiveness and uniqueness of its storytelling. I read it greedily, not wanting to leave San Ginese and return to the real world.’ CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS
Author: Robert Lukins Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press ISBN: 070226122X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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England, 1962. Seventeen-year-old Radford arrives at Goodwin Manor, a home for boys who have 'been found by trouble'. Watched over by the enigmatic Teddy, life at the Manor offers a fragile peace at best, as the coldest winter in three centuries sets in. Radford learns that the boys are to care for each other, since their families and the law have been unable to do so. But will this be enough when tragedy strikes? At once both beautiful and brutal, The Everlasting Sunday is an unforgettable debut novel about growing up, growing wild and the shifting nature of friendship.
Author: D. M. Cameron Publisher: ISBN: 9781925227390 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Beneath the Mother Tree is a spine-chilling mystery and contemporary love story, played out in a unique and wild Australian setting interwoven with Indigenous history and Irish mythology. This spiritual subtext becomes a stage for unforgettable characters who navigate vital questions of identity and belonging. The result is a compelling portrait of how our dark history and dreaming landscape can make extraordinary things of ordinary lives. Wrought with sensuousness and lyricism, D.M. Cameron¿s debut novel is a thrilling journey, rhythmically fierce and eagerly awaited.
Author: J.D. Barrett Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0733637965 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 188
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What happens when one of the country's most popular identities goes from reading the news to being the news? Olivia Law had always been the good girl. Great grades, perfect career, husband, house and hairdo. She'd learnt image was everything so she refused to look below the surface of her life. When not at work her minutes were filled with causes, chairing boards and dining at fabulous restaurants with her equally fabulous husband, David. She kept up the Botox, blow-dries and worked hard. It wasn't enough, but whenever doubt crept in she'd head to a pilates class or plan a renovation on her trophy house. Then she turned 45. Olivia wasn't prepared for David to leave. The fact that they hadn't had sex for two years should have triggered warning bells ... it didn't. In an attempt to fix her broken marriage Olivia exposed herself like never before. But when her confession goes viral, the husband, house and job disappear. The woman who once offered glamorous reassurance and a steady gaze is labelled a princess of perversion. Humiliated, defeated, facing fifty shades of failure, she's left wondering who the hell she really is? Stripped bare, she abandons perfection ... and something remarkable happens. Olivia Law just might get her sass back (and this time, it's the real thing). The brilliant new novel from J.D. Barrett about break ups, breakdowns and break throughs. Batteries not included.
Author: David Marr Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing ISBN: 9781740669498 Category : Australia Languages : en Pages : 264
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Works from Australia's leading photographers Oculi Photography Group 'As a collective, we made a real point of documenting our homeland - its sensitivities, its great brutalist elements, the light that has scorched and battered this land for millennia.' - Dean Sewell. This stunning anthology of 250 photographs marks ten years since the formation of the acclaimed Oculi photographic collective. From apocalyptic representations of drought and fire-ravaged landscapes to intimate yet haunting portraits of young parenthood, Oculi's ten multi-award winning photographers vividly explore the intersection of the human condition and the urban and rural environment in Australia and beyond. This superbly produced book features works from Australia's leading photographers including Donna Bailey, Tamara Dean, Jesse Marlow, Dean Sewell, Nick Moir, Steven Siewert, Andrew Quilty, James Brickwood, Tamara Voninski and Jeremy Piper. Oculi is a powerful photographic study of our time. Oculi' is a survey that charters the first ten years of the Australian documentary photographic collective Oculi - an examination of the geo-political and social landscape of Australia and our regional neighbours throughout the first decade of the 21st Century. It addresses the social implications of the new globalised economy of which we are part as well as the environmental consequences exerted by climate change, as well as Australian youth cultures, subcultures, social rituals and the human condition. 'Oculi' explores the broadest gamet of photographic documentary genres including street photography, photojournalism, press photography, portraiture, social/environmental documentary, still life and embraces contemporary and fine art practice.
Author: Fatima Bhutto Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1839760354 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 432
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"Dazzling. A novel that holds up to scrutiny a world of claustrophobic war zones, virulent social media and cities collapsing upon themselves, and then sets it down again, transformed by the grace of storytelling." – Siddartha Deb, author of The Point of Return Anita lives in Karachi’s biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women. But Anita's life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour, a man whose shelves of books promise an escape to a different world. On the other side of Karachi lives Monty, whose father owns half the city and expects great things of him. But when a beautiful and rebellious girl joins his school, Monty will find his life going in a very different direction. Sunny's father left India and went to England to give his son the opportunities he never had. Yet Sunny doesn't fit in anywhere. It's only when his charismatic cousin comes back into his life that he realises his life could hold more possibilities than he ever imagined. These three lives will cross in the desert, a place where life and death walk hand in hand, and where their closely guarded secrets will force them to make a terrible choice.