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Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History by Mandy Sayer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present. Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots of R ...Show more
Coco: Autobiography of my Dog by SAYER MANDY
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Coco is an author, model, and actress, who most recently starred in ABC TV series, The Straits. She lives in Sydney with a writer who answers to the name Mandy Sayer.
Dreamtime Alice by Mandy Sayer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
â~I danced and danced because the neon light across the road had just blinked on, because it was the middle of spring, because I was twenty-one, because my father was playing beside me....' In this vivid, seductive, gorgeously written memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the fascinating years she spent perform ...Show more
Fifteen Kinds of Desire by Mandy Sayer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays
'Or at least there is a desire to become a smaller part of something larger in life, something that will take charge of you as though you were a child.' Richard Ford, WILDLIFE, from the epigraph to FIFTEEN KINDS OF DESIRE A young child is preyed upon by a molester - and turns the tables in a terrifying ...Show more
Love in the Years of Lunacy by Mandy Sayer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful and impetuous. She plays saxophone in an all-girl jazz band at the Trocadero and occasionally sits in on underground gigs with her twin brother Martin, who also plays the sax. On one such evening black GI and jazz legend James Washington blows into her life, an ...Show more
Misfits and Me - Collected Non-Fiction by Mandy Sayer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
"I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, and smother him with kisses." Misfits and Me rep ...Show more
The Australian Long Story by Mandy Sayer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Essays
A TREASURE TROVE OF THE FINEST AUSTRALIAN WRITING In this collection, acclaimed writer Mandy Sayer brings together nine of the best Australian examples of the long story - tales that combine the intensity of the short story with the complexity of a novel. In these stories, characters grow up, hook ...Show more
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Mandy Sayer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Mark Stamp fires an air gun through the window of his father's shed then sees the body of his mother lying dead and dressed in his sister's clothes, it's time to leave. Mark, Ruby and the baby set off on a hair-raising journey across the country fleeing their violent father.
The Poet's Wife by Mandy Sayer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Even though we'd grown up in vastly different cultures and countries, we'd both known poverty, domestic violence and the expectation that neither one of us would ever amount to anything. That was probably what united us more than anything: our shared defiance of that prediction." She tap-danced on stre ...Show more
Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s First Female Filmmaking Team - Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Award 2023 by Mandy Sayer
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The trailblazing McDonagh sisters were the first women in Australia to form their own film production company. Between 1926 and 1933, this remarkable trio produced four feature films and a number of documentaries. The youngest, Paulette, was one of only five women film directors in the world. Phyllis pr ...Show more
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