First published in Australia in 2013 by HarperCollinsPublishers. Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer. The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society′s thin-lipped...
Harper Collins Australia, 2013. — 304 p. — ISBN: 073229746X; ISBN13: 9780732297466. On a hot summer's night in the 1950s, the old and the new, diesel and steam, town and country all collide - and nobody will be left unaffected.
Harper Perennial, 2006. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0732278333; ISBN13: 9780732278335. In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia and Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled. If, like his heroes, he has the gift of speed, he will move beyond his suburb into the great world... As his summer unfolds, Michael realises that there are other ways to live. When the calypso chorus accompanying...
4th Estate, 2008. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0732278376; ISBN13: 9780732278373. One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of a television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old. That same morning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband, yet it is years since Vic moved north. Their son, Michael, has left for the city, and is entering the...
Harper Collins, 2011. — 347 p. — ISBN: 0732291186; ISBN13: 9780732291181 Spirit of Progress is the stunning new novel from Miles Franklin Award winner Steven Carroll, based on a Sidney Nolan painting of Carroll's aunt, and is a compelling prequel to his Glenroy trilogy the thing that makes you, it never goes. A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French...
Harper Collins Australia, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0732291224; ISBN13: 9780732291228. Forever Young is set against the tumultuous period of change and uncertainty that was Australia in 1977. Whitlam is about to lose the federal election, and things will never be the same again. the times they are a'changing. Radicals have become conservatives, idealism is giving way to realism,...
4th Estate, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1460757696; ISBN13: 9781460757697. One of Australia's finest and most critically acclaimed writers returns with a powerful novel that goes back to the very beginning of the story, to bring his sweeping Glenroy series to a magnificent close. Melbourne, 1917: the times are tumultuous, the city is in the grip of a kind of madness. The Great War...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer, and his travelling world of memory and speculation. Melbourne, 1946, calls to him: the pressure cooker of the city during World War II has produced a small creative miracle, and at this pivotal moment the lives of his newly married...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. This is an elegant and resonant story of change and the loss of innocence set in post-war Melbourne. This is the story of one evening in the lives of the residents of a new outer suburb. As a mighty steam train leaves Spencer Street Station, a group of neighbours gather to celebrate a young girl's engagement.
4th Estate, 2012. — 133 p. — ASIN B009JWCONG. They may never have a life together‚ but they will have their moment. They will have this much. England‚ September 1934. Two young lovers‚ Catherine and Daniel‚ have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton‚ an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps‚ they hide‚ and then witness the poet...
4th Estate, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0732291208; ISBN13: 9780732291204. Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer. The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society′s thin-lipped...
4th Estate, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN: 1460705726; ISBN13: 9781460705728. 1965. The great poet, TS Eliot, is dead. Hearing the news, the seventy-two year old Emily Hale points her Ford Roadster towards the port of Gloucester, where a fishing boat will take her out to sea, near the low, treacherous rocks called the Dry Salvages, just off Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Over the course of...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia and Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled. If, like his heroes, he has the gift of speed, he will move beyond his suburb into the great world. As his summer unfolds, Michael realises that there are other ways to live. When the calypso chorus accompanying Frank Worrell and his team fades, Michael has...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. Two young lovers‚ Catherine and Daniel‚ have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton‚ an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps‚ they hide‚ and then witness the poet T.S. (′Tom′) Eliot and his close friend Emily enter the garden and bury a mysterious tin in the earth. Tom and Emily knew each other in...
Richmond: Mira, 2007. — 296 p. As the Allied forces occupy Japan at the end of World War II, an intense love affair develops between shy Australian Allen 'Spin' Bowler, an interpreter in the British army, and Momoko, a western-educated, elegant young woman whose calmness and dignity veil the tiredness and defeat she has suffered.
Richmond: Mira, 2007. — 296 p. As the Allied forces occupy Japan at the end of World War II, an intense love affair develops between Australian Allen 'Spin' Bowler, an interpreter in the British army, and Momoko, a woman whose calmness and dignity veil the tiredness and defeat she has suffered. In the quiet sanctuary of Momoko's room, Spin gradually sheds his shy bookish self...
Windmill Books, 2009. The Time We Have Taken is a story of intersecting lives in the year 1970, during the centenary celebration of a suburb. It is both a meditation on the rhythms of suburban life and a luminous exploration of public and private reckoning during a time of radical change. Again, in 2008, Carroll was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, and this time he...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old. The Time We Have Taken is a powerfully moving tale of the rhythms of suburban life – its public and private reckonings.
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