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Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
It's 1964 and the little wine-producing town of Penola, in South Australia is about to have its complacency shattered. Robbie, the only child of the local cop, experiences a chemical mix between he and his new thoroughly modern English teacher, Miss Peach.
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a strange dance with his stalker. A father gives his daughter a Christmas present with a disturbing history. An ugly sports parent plays a game of ridiculous ...Show more
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
The characters in these unsettling stories, of which there are six short and two long, want things that run counter to their sense of themselves. They're drawn outside their comfort zone into situations that are sometimes amusing, sometimes undignifying, never quite what they expect.
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's applied his fascination with that stage of life to his own, from his bizarre first memories to the embarrassments of adolescence. For all his working life Goldsworthy has been both ...Show more
Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam by Peter Goldsworthy
$20.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This tale of loss and the relationship between parents and children is accompanied by: an essay by the author detailing his writing style and method; discussion questions and reviews; an interview with the author; and an extended biography.
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
$17.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: A&R Classics
'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAESTRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one ...Show more
Minotaur by Peter Goldsworthy
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Peter Goldsworthy's new novel features a blind detective determined to deliver justice to the man who shot him, even though his failed assassin has broken out of jail and is equally determined to finish the job. Cleverly structured around the five senses, and with the action confined to one week, it's ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Wish: Text Classics by Peter Goldsworthy
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
'I'm not deaf, but I've always felt more at home in Sign. Both my parents are deaf. Deaf as posts. Deaf as adders, deaf as beetles. And proud as peacocks, Deaf Pride long before there was a word, or a sign, for it. I learnt to speak with my hands from birth; there was no other way of reaching my parents ...Show more
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