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Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy
Category: Fiction
It's 1964 and the little wine-producing town of Penola, in South Australia is about to have its complacency shattered. Robbie, the only child of the local cop, experiences a chemical mix between he and his new thoroughly modern English teacher, Miss Peach.
Foe by J. M. Coetzee; Peter Goldsworthy (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
With electrical intensity of language and insight, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. The stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly movin ...Show more
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
Category: Fiction
A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a strange dance with his stalker. A father gives his daughter a Christmas present with a disturbing history. An ugly sports parent plays a game of ridiculous ...Show more
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
Category: Fiction
The characters in these unsettling stories, of which there are six short and two long, want things that run counter to their sense of themselves. They're drawn outside their comfort zone into situations that are sometimes amusing, sometimes undignifying, never quite what they expect.
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
Category: Biography
Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's applied his fascination with that stage of life to his own, from his bizarre first memories to the embarrassments of adolescence. For all his working life Goldsworthy has been both ...Show more
Honk If You Are Jesus by GOLDSWORTHY Peter
Category: Fiction
From the pen of Peter Goldsworthy - a modern champion of the lost art of storytelling - comes Honk If You Are Jesus, a bestselling novel that resists categorisation, and explodes expectations. Keep your hand on the horn during this startling comic fiction.
Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam by Peter Goldsworthy
Category: Fiction
This tale of loss and the relationship between parents and children is accompanied by: an essay by the author detailing his writing style and method; discussion questions and reviews; an interview with the author; and an extended biography.
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAESTRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one ...Show more
Minotaur by Peter Goldsworthy
Category: Audio
Peter Goldsworthy's new novel features a blind detective determined to deliver justice to the man who shot him, even though his failed assassin has broken out of jail and is equally determined to finish the job. Cleverly structured around the five senses, and with the action confined to one week, it's p ...Show more