"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with the same lyrical intensity and spellbinding prose that has won Robert Drewe's fiction international acclaim, The Shark Net is set in a city haunted by the menace of an elusive serial killer. Drewe's middle class youth in the seaside suburbs of Perth, Australia—often described as the most isolated city in the world—takes a sinister turn when a social outcast (who turns out to be an employee of Drewe's father) embarks on a five-year murder spree. This unusual memoir brilliantly evokes the confluence of adolescent innocence and sexual awakening, while a killer who eventually murders eight people—including several of Drewe's friends—lurks in the shadows.

The Shark Net: Memories and Murder

Biographies & Memoirs

DREWE, ROBERT

Professionals & Academics

Penguin??Books

The Savage Crows

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books Australia

Bodysurfers [Aug 27, 2002] Drewe, Robert ...

Bodysurfers

Penguin Australia

Will Dance is the son of a "drowner, " a man who understands the secrets of irrigation. With actress Angelica Lloyd, whom he meets at the public baths, Will journeys to western Australia to work on the engineering miracle that was to bring fresh water uphill to a desert town gripped by two fevers: the goldrush and typhoid. While the love story of Angelica and Will is at the heart of this novel, it is but a part of the daring epic romance that unfolds.

Drowner

Contemporary

Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life, Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative recreation of the inner life of Ned Kelly, the National Hero and Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes. Written with brilliant clarity and impressionistic economy, it carries the reader into a dreamworld of astonishing and violent revelation, an entrancing and frightening landscape of murder, sexuality, persecution, robbery, vanity, politics, and corruption.

Our Sunshine

An action-packed historical novel about the legendary Australian gunfighter Ned Kelly follows the notorious outlaw and his gang of "bushrangers" on their violent rampage through the wilderness of Australia. Original. (A Universal Pictures and Working Title Films production, releasing Fall 2003, starring Heath Ledger, Rachel Griffiths, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, and Naomi Watts) (Historical Fiction)

Ned Kelly (movie tie-in): Tie In Edition

2003 Penguin Group trade PB. 4th printing, Australian Import. Robert Drew memoir about a childhood shadowed by serial killings in Perth, Australia. Tie-in to TV-series.

Shark Net

True Crime

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.

Modern Classics The Bodysurfers

Our sunshine

A short story collection set at the Australian beach Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach—and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family—this collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun, and a lazy sensuality, all the while hinting at a deep undercurrent of suburban malaise.

Bodysurfers (Penguin Australian Classics)

Short Stories & Anthologies

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The Shark Net: Memories and Murder

The Savage Crows

Bodysurfers

Drowner

Our Sunshine

Ned Kelly (movie tie-in): Tie In Edition

Shark Net

Modern Classics The Bodysurfers

Our Sunshine

Bodysurfers (Penguin Australian Classics)