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A New England Affair (#3 Eliot Quartet series) by Steven Carroll
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
"The latest, immensely moving novel of lost love and missed moments from Steven Carroll, one of Australia's greatest writers, multi-award winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award 'Why do some nights feel as though they were always waiting ...Show more
A World of Other People by Steven Carroll
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
Joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award (with Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan), A World of Other People is a life-affirming evocation of love in war time, when every decision, and every day, matters. Set in 1941 during the Blitz, Steven Carroll's cinematic new novel traces the ...Show more
A World of Other People - Eliot Quartet series #2 by Steven Carroll
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
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-li ...Show more
Death of a Foreign Gentleman by Steven Carroll
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Stephen Minter Ser.
Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, with shades of The Third Man and Brighton Rock. Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher who is in Ca ...Show more
Forever Young by Steven Carroll
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Glenroy Ser.
The fifth novel in the acclaimed Glenroy series by multi-award winning novelist Steven Carroll. Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award And is nostalgia not so much a longing for a place or a time, as a longing for youth itself? Forever Young is set against the tumultuous period of c ...Show more
Forever Young by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The latest novel by acclaimed novelist Steven Carroll, winner of the Prime Minister's Award and the Miles Franklin Award. 'And is nostalgia not so much a longing for a place or a time, as a longing for youth itself?' Forever Young is set against the tumultuous period of change and uncertainty that was A ...Show more
Gift of Speed by Steven Carroll
$20.00 AUD
$22.95 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
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 F ...Show more
Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight by Steven Carroll
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
From one of our finest writers - winner of the Miles Franklin, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award - comes a wistful and emotional story that imagines a happier ending for the mercurial and complicated Vivienne Haigh-Wood, first wife of the great poet, TS Eliot. Londo ...Show more
O by Steven Carroll
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales...' Occupied France, 1943. France's most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a m ...Show more
Spirit of Progress by Steven Carroll
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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 pivota ...Show more
The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
As a mighty steam train leaves Spencer Street station on its haul to Sydney, the nearby residents are on their way to an engagement party. George Bedser, a shipbuilder from Liverpool, is celebrating the engagement of his daughter Patsy. As they walk to the party, we hear the stories of their lives.
The Lost Life by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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‚ ...Show more