Product Description: Superb and surprising new fiction is found in this major new collection from the Australian master. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban father perches in his son's tree house to spy on his friends...read more

Product Description: Murray Bail is best known for his internationally best-selling novel Eucalyptus, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year and winner of the 1999 Miles Franklin Award. The New York Times Book Review wrote that Bail's writing "exhibit(s) a surfeit of imagination, skill and style...read more

Murray Bail’s first novel since Eucalyptus is a beguiling meditation on friendship and love, on men and women, on landscape and the difficulties of thought itself.What are THE PAGES?On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing a philosophy. Now he has died. Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise his work. Accompanying her is Sophie who needs a distraction from a string of failed relationships. Her field is psychoanalysis. These two women, each with a different view of the world, meet a situation they have not experienced before — with surprising results.

In a touching modern fairy tale, a farmer in Australia's New South Wales announces that his daughter may only wed the man who can correctly name the species of each and every eucalyptus tree on his property, a decision that is complicated when Ellen chances upon a mysterious young man. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

In a collection by the author of Homesickness, a man decides to photograph everyone alive, a father spies on his friends from a treehouse, a dentist recognizes his estranged wife in a famous painting, new neighbors impact a brother and sister, and a piano tuner contributes to World War II. Reprint.

Product Description: Sidney Nolan (1917--1992) built a compelling narrative around the figure of Ned Kelly, a colorful and wronged anti-hero in homemade armor, and the comic-opera police who pursue him through the vast and featureless Australian bush landscape...read more

An innocent young Holden Shadbolt's photographic memory makes him a sought-after asset by men of power and women seeking his protection, from a scrap dealer who woos Holden's mother to a physically challenged artist whose style sharply contrasts Holden's own. Original.

Thirteen men and women on a package tour find unexpected adventures in their travels around the world

A surly widower who is notoriously overprotective of his daughter, offers beautiful Ellen's hand in marriage to anyone who can correctly name each of the hundreds of species of gum trees on his property. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. NYT.

Product Description: Thirteen men and women on a world tour, a package of pool-sides, museums, hotels and shops. But no matter where they go - Africa, England, South America, New York or Russia - they find nothing as they expected. Challenged by unexpected propositions, the tourists find themselves repelled...read more

Collects representative short stories by Christina Stead, Peter Cowan, David Malouf, Peter Carey, and Kate Grenville

Thirteen stories deal with words, pigeon racers, the decline of a house, a bus trip, a bicycle accident, definitions, a painter's memories and the imagination