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Dissonance: A Novel by Stephen Orr
27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Dissonance begins with piano practice. Fifteen-year-old Erwin Hergert is forced to tackle scales and studies for six hours a day by his mother, Madge, who is determined to produce Australia's first great pianist. To help Erwin focus, Madge has exiled her husband, Johann, to the back shed. Jo is diagnose ...Show more
Incredible Floridas by Stephen Orr
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
As Hitler's war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home with his family to live a simple life of shared plums and low-cut lawns in the suburbs. In the yard: a daughter, and a son, Hal, growing up with a preoccupied father who is always in his shed stretching canvases and painting out ...Show more
Sincerely, Ethel Malley by Stephen Orr
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In the darkest days of World War II, Ethel Malley lives a quiet life on Dalmar Street, Croydon. One day she finds a collection of poems written by her late (and secretive) brother, Ern. She sends them to Max Harris, co-editor of modernist magazine Angry Penguins. He reads them and declares Ern an undisc ...Show more
The Fierce Country : True stories from Australia's unsettled heart, 1830 to today by Stephen Orr
27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The Fierce Country holds no malice, but neither pity. It just sits, and bakes, and waits. We do the rest. We provoke it when we mine above its aquifers. Weaken it, and ourselves, when we leave mountains of asbestos to blow away in the wind. Misunderstand it when we see it as nothing more than a resource ...Show more
The Lanternist by Stephen Orr
19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Age range 9+1901. The slide clunks into the lantern, and Phantoms come alive on the wall. The father-and-son Magic Lantern team of Bert and Tom Eliot are masters of The Art of the Story. The only problem is that they are missing a wife and mother. Then one morning eleven-year-old Tom wakes to find his f ...Show more
This Excellent Machine by Stephen Orr
34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Clem Whelan's got a problem: trapped in the suburbs in the Sunnyboy summer of 1984 he has to decide what to do with his life. Matriculation? He's more than able, but not remotely interested. Become a writer? His failed lawyer neighbour Peter encourages him, but maybe it's just another dead end? To make ...Show more
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