The Penguin Petty

PETTY, BRUCE

Penguin Books Australia

<p>The subtle stow of a six-year-old boy, whose custody is being fought over by two aunts. Anguish and pathos is countered by a wonderful sense of comedy.</p>

Tom: A child's life regained

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Embling, John

Psychology & Counseling

The penal colony of Moreton Bay is under the command of Patrick Logan, a man not afraid of brutal discipline. But his rule is being questioned, and the arrival of his sister-in-law Frances will change everything. An unforgettable tale of power, duty, and humanity, from one of Australia's most esteemed writers.

Commandant

Literature & Fiction

Jessica Anderson

Contemporary

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Henry Handel Richardson

Dramas & Plays

Signs of Australia

Richard Tipping

In a sunlit piazza on an April morning, women throw buckets of water over the cobbles and men deliver trays of pastry to trattorie. In a barren room above, a fanatic watches, engaged in the details of his life's most important project: the assassination of one of Italy's most beloved men of letters.In this penetrating novella, David Malouf, the highly acclaimed Australian author and finalist for the Booker Prize, plumbs the darker uses of our passions. Weaving a dense tapestry of sensual observation and personal events of mythic importance, he re-creates the frighteningly fascinating mind of a madman poised at his moment of truth. Dazzling in its beauty, intensely enigmatic, Child's Play conjures the mystical rising and falling of fear and pathos, where human idiosyncrasy and the incantatory rhythms of life give way to mania.

CHILD'S PLAY. With Eustace and The Prowler

DAVID MALOUF

A useless young man?: An autobiography of life in Australia, 1849-64 (Penguin Australian Library)

George Theodore Blakers

No Moon Tonight

History

Don Charlwood

World

Mixed blessings: John Paul II and the Church of the eighties

Paul Collins

Stirring the Possum: A political autobiography

McClelland, J. R.

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