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1915: A Novel of Gallipoli by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
The year young Australians sailed off to war in high hopes of adventure, only to find themselves faced with disaster.The tragedy and violence of Gallipoli provide the climax to this very personal, moving and surprisingly romantic story. With remarkable skill and in achingly beautiful prose, Roger McDona ...Show more
A Sea-Chase by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
Judy and Wes fall in love instantly and from the beginning are rarely apart. Yet they never really share their ambitions and passions with each other. Son of a preacher, Wes, is passionate about everything and a particular cause is the battle against the French nuclear testing in the Pacific. And boatbu ...Show more
A Sea-Chase by Roger McDonald; Louise Crawford (Read by)
Category: Audio
At sea can be a beautiful and ferocious place to find yourself - alone and together. Growing up in inland Australia, Judy, a young teacher, has rarely seen the sea. But when she flees a rioting classroom one dismal Friday, a dud and a failure, she gets drunk and wakes up on a boat. Overnight her life c ...Show more
Australia's Wild Places by Roger McDonald (Photographer)
Category: Australiana
Australia's Wild Places celebrates the Australian landscape photographers whose works capture and encapsulate the essence of their country. From the drama of bush scapes to the untouched rocky crags of Western Australia and the serenity of the Tasmanian rainforest, the works collected here trace the dev ...Show more
Mr Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
the story of Syms Covington, Darwin's manservant on the Beagle and afterwards. Last century Charles Darwin set out on a voyage in the Beagle that would change forever the way human history was viewed. It was on this voyage that Darwin collected the information that gave birth to his controversial Theory ...Show more
Mr Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
The story of Syms Covington, Darwin's manservant on the Beagle and afterwards. Last century Charles Darwin set out on a voyage in the Beagle that would change forever the way human history was viewed. It was on this voyage that Darwin collected the information that gave birth to his controversial Theory ...Show more
Rough Wallaby by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
Picador edition of a novel first published in 1989. A humorous novel in which typical Australian characters are portrayed - from the battler in the bush to the high flying city-slicker. The author has written three other novels '1915', 'Slipstream' and 'Waterman' and eight other books including poetry, ...Show more
Slip Stream by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
Reprint of a novel first published in 1982, based on Ray Hilman, an Australian aviator in WWI, and the myths that developed around him. It explores themes such as reality and illusion, fame and power. Other works by this award-winning author include TShearers' Motel' and T1915'.
The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award. In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, no one had ventured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney. Or so it was believed until the escape of Desmon ...Show more
The Following by Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction
'A politician was a man apart, with power lent to him while it lasted, a sack of bones in a suit coat thereafter.' Years ago, in a midnight encounter beside the railroad tracks, a young boy meets a stranger with a powerful secret, a gift of uncanny understanding and a talent for knots. From this encount ...Show more
The Following by Roger McDonald
Category: Accessories
A Miles Franklin Award-winning author engaging directly with Australia's political past and future. A young boy meets a stranger with a powerful secret, a gift of uncanny understanding and a talent for knots. From this encounter, Marcus Friendly's ideas of himself take shape as he rises to become Austra ...Show more