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Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation.....This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and characters that will never let you go...'...there is ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
$18.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
The Devil's Playground by Christos Tsiolkas
$9.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Fred Schepisi's film, 'The Devil's Playground' is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith. Made in 1976, this semi-autobiog ...Show more
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace, heart and wisdom. No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men ...Show more
The Jesus Man by Christos Tsiolkas
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When Tommy is made redundant, he finds the voices in his head becoming louder as he sinks into pornography, violence and madness. He snaps and murders someone who may or may not be a serial sex killer of children, then castrates and kills himself, leaving his family numb with grief and at the mercy of t ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his own. It's a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. Told through the eyes of eight of those present at the barbecue, this acclaimed bestseller is an unflinching i ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$25.00 AUD
$32.95 (24% off)
Category: Fiction
The Slap is a novel about the relationships between children and adults, and the new Australian multicultural middle-class from the controversial cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe. Longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. First published 2008.
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$65.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which con ...Show more