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Prochownik's Dream by Alex Miller
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alex Miller's latest novel Prochownik's Dream is about an artist who hasn't been able to paint or draw for years, not since the death of his father. When he suddenly finds the inspiration to work again, it creates all sorts of tensions in his life, as he alienates his wife and neglects his child. Procho ...Show more
Simplest Words (HB) by Alex Miller
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimat ...Show more
Singing for All He's Worth: Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg by Alex Skovron; Alex Miller; Raymond Gaita
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the early 1990s, after writing for most of his life in Yiddish, his mother tongue, Jacob Rosenberg decided to switch to English. The period of extraordinary creativity that followed was cut short only by his death in 2008, at the age of 86. During those fifteen-odd years, Rosenberg wrote and publishe ...Show more
The Ancestor Game: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1993 by Alex Miller
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The best-selling, 1993 Miles Franklin Award-winning novel from one of Australia's foremost literary writers.
The Ancestor Game: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1993 - HB by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The Ancestor Game is like an elaborate house of many floors and wings and hidden rooms, interconnecting in surprising ways and inhabited by a richly divergent family of characters.' - Midwest Book Review..Steven Muir, Gertrude Speiss and Lang Tzu experience a dislocation, an ambivalence, at living in E ...Show more
The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the begi ...Show more
The Simplest Words: A Storyteller's Journey by Alex Miller
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimat ...Show more
Watching the Climbers on the Mountain by Alex Miller
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A novel of passion and brooding suspense, Watching the Climbers on the Mountain is set in the remote Central Highlands of Queensland. It is the story of Ward Rankin, the disaffected station owner, and Ida, his unhappy wife, who sees the solution to her problems in her love for the young English stockman ...Show more