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Australia Under Surveillance by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Non-Fiction
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
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
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
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
Dark Palace (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
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
Forty-Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Fiction
He is a failed writer turned diplomat, an anarchist learning the value of discipline. He moves in a world which takes him from the Australian wilderness to the conference rooms of Vienna and Geneva; from the whore-house to warzone he feels the pull of the genetic spiral of his ancestry. At the sharp axi ...Show more
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
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
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
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
Martini: A Memoir by Frank Moorhouse
Category: Biography
At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all - the martini - and a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost, MARTINI: A MEMOIR is Frank Moorhouse at his melancholy and hilarious best. As he muses on the aesthetics of martini lore - olive or twist, shake ...Show more
The Electrical Experience by MOORHOUSE, FRANK
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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