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Australia Under Surveillance by Frank Moorhouse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom of journalists. At a time when the government has raised the terrorist aler ...Show more
Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the oldest cities of the world to live in the newest city of the world - she had ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the oldest cities of the world to live in the newest city of the world - she had ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
"Winner of the Queensland Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Prize.It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry, who joined the League i ...Show more
Dark Palace (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Edith Trilogy
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award.Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early Grand Dayshas been eroded by a sense foreboding as the world moves ever closer t ...Show more
Dark Palace: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2001 (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Palais des Nations Ser.
On the night of October 15, 1931, Edith Campbell Berry is in the dining room of the Hotel des Bergues in Geneva, celebrating in the renewal of her contract as an officer of the league of nations. However, times are changing, for Edith and for the League. The grand days of early idealism and optimism are ...Show more
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses, and allows him to kiss her passionately.Their early intimacy binds them t ...Show more
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Edith Trilogy
"Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses, and allows him to kiss her passionately.Their early intimacy binds them t ...Show more
Lateshows by Frank Moorhouse
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Our Hero explores contemporary protocols - of family, food and art - looks at the tragic evanescence of technology and investigates meal reform and the science of life. The Club - I also thought I moved with what was called the Fast Crowd but I have begun to face up to the slowing of the Fast Crowd. My ...Show more
Loose Living by Frank Moorhouse
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Moorhouse Collection Ser.
How our Hero came to be a cultural ambassador in France fell into strange company; how he encountered the Duc and his entourage; how Europe responded to his Australian ways; how refinement eluded him; how the queen of commas almost brought him down by tugging his rope; how he became an honoured member o ...Show more
Martini: A Memoir by Frank Moorhouse
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all - the martini - and a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost, MARTINI: A MEMOIR is Frank Moorhouse at his melancholy and hilarious best. As he muses on the aesthetics of martini lore - olive or twist, shake ...Show more
Room Service by Frank Moorhouse
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Frank Moorhouse and his alter ego, Francoise Blase, are at their mordant best. Their wit, satire and keen eye for detail are finely honed as they travel at home and abroad, savouring the persecution inflicted by bell captains, barmen and tour guides - together with the endless buffeting of cultural diff ...Show more