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Education & Reference

The Writing Book: A practical guide for fiction writers

by (Allen & Unwin)

(32 reviews)

A completely practical workbook that offers down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for writers or aspiring writers to get you started and to keep you going. The Writing Book doesn't just talk about how to write fiction; it takes you, step-by-step, through the process of doing it. Each chapter concentrates on one aspect of writing: getting started, bringing characters to life, writing convincing... See More

Length: 242 Pages (1,299 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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£4.49 £5.06 Save 11% Price verified 15 hours ago
Poetry & Drama

The Secret River (NHB Modern Plays): (Stage Version)

by (Nick Hern Books)

(3 reviews)

William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales a convict from the slums of London. Upon earning his pardon he discovers that this new world offers something he didn't dare dream of: a place to call his own. But as he plants a crop and lays claim to the soil on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, he finds that this land is not his to take. Its ancient custodians are the Dharug people. A deeply... See More

Length: 163 Pages (2,880 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Historical Fiction

Restless Dolly Maunder: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024

by (Canongate Books)

(464 reviews)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 A DAILY MAIL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BEST FICTION IN THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS AUSTRALIA 2024 Born into the sweat and drudgery of a New South Wales sheep farm at the end of the 19th century, Dolly Maunder is different to her siblings. She will not endure the small, servile existence of a wife. Dolly, bright, ambitious and stubborn... See More

Length: 257 Pages (5,981 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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£5.99 £7.99 Save 25% Price verified 5 hours ago
Health & Fitness

The Case against Fragrance

by (Text Publishing)

(126 reviews)

Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other people's perfumes, and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners. On a book tour in 2015, dogged by ill health, she started wondering: what's in fragrance? Who... See More

Length: 194 Pages (632 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Literary Fiction

The Secret River

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(5,136 reviews)

*NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024* FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay... See More

Length: 358 Pages (7,059 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Women's Fiction

Joan Makes History

by (University of Queensland Press)

(44 reviews)

Kate Grenville's wonderfully irreverent novel rewrites 200-odd years of Australia's past. Joan is a wife and mother of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, effortlessly subverting the solemnity of momentous occasions and cheerfully altering the course of history. See More

Length: 256 Pages (1,456 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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£10.34 Price verified 16 hours ago
Literary Fiction

Joan Makes History (UQP Modern Classics)

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(42 reviews)

In this rollicking, irreverent tour de force, Kate Grenville rewrites the familiar past. Joan is a wife and mother of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is on the front line of events, effortlessly subverting the solemnity of momentous occasions and cheerfully altering the course of history. First published in 1988, Joan Makes History was funded by the Australian... See More

Length: 256 Pages (1,996 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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£11.75 £12.45 Save 6% Price verified 2 hours ago
Contemporary Fiction

Lilian's Story: Text Classics

by (Text Publishing)

(22 reviews)

Listen, I told myself, and heard the waves against the harbour-wall, a gull being peevish, the white tapping stick of a blind man against the stones. Listen, I told myself, this is history. Loosely inspired by the legendary Sydney bohemian Bea Miles, Kate Grenville's much-loved debut novel recounts the life of the irrepressible Lilian Una Singer: from wealthy middle-class girlhood under the rule... See More

Length: 337 Pages (2,719 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Literary Fiction

The Secret River and Searching for The Secret River

by (Canongate Books)

(4,929 reviews)

Kate Grenville's The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of readers. Searching for the Secret River tells the story of how Grenville came to write this wonderful... See More

Length: 358 Pages (1,414 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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£8.73 Price verified 7 hours ago
Historical Fiction

A Room Made of Leaves

by (Canongate Books)

(4,000 reviews)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION - the new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction winner and Man Booker prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River It is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the arrogant and hot-headed soldier John Macarthur, she soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Forced to travel with him to New South Wales, she arrives to... See More

Length: 347 Pages (6,125 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Literary Fiction

The Lieutenant (Canons)

by (Canongate Canons)

(1,218 review)

In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart the stars. But this country will prove far more revelatory than the stars above. Based on real events, The Lieutenant tells the unforgettable story of Rooke's connection with an... See More

Length: 320 Pages (5,848 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Education & Reference

Writing From Start to Finish: A six-step guide

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(7 reviews)

A new handbook to help beginners kickstart their writing by prize-winning author and long-time writing teacher, Kate Grenville Do you find yourself staring at a blank piece of paper, waiting for the words to pour out? If you find writing difficult, this book is for you. Award-winning novelist Kate Grenville shares her method-the 'Six Steps' approach to writing. Whether you're writing a short... See More

Length: 228 Pages (8,097 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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£6.31 Price verified 18 hours ago
Contemporary Fiction

Lilian's Story

by (Canongate Books)

(421 reviews)

Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world. Lilian Una Singer starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class... See More

Length: 289 Pages (1,031 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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£5.99 Price verified 13 hours ago
Parenting & Families

One Life: My Mother's Story

by (Canongate Books)

(1,145 review)

'Clear, authentic and utterly engaging... it is as successful as it is authentic' Independent on Sunday Born to an unhappy marriage and into a deeply sexist society, Nance Russell worked hard for everything she had, and while the world changed around her, she went on to university, to opening businesses and raising a family. One Life is Nance's story - and many other women's too - beautifully... See More

Length: 271 Pages (9,884 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Literary Fiction

Sarah Thornhill

by (Canongate Books)

(1,460 review)

Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. Her stepmother calls her willful, but handsome Jack Langland loves her and she loves him. Me and Jack, she thinks, how could it go wrong? But there's an ugly secret in Sarah's family. That secret takes her into the darkness of the past, and across the ocean to the wild coasts of New... See More

Length: 321 Pages (2,397 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Literary Fiction

Dreamhouse

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(13 reviews)

It should have been a perfect summer, but for Louise and Rennie their dreamhouse is the stuff of nightmares. Kate Grenville's extraordinary, disturbing novel evokes the mystery and menace underpinning everyday life. See More

Length: 170 Pages (1,323 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Literary Fiction

Bearded Ladies

by (University of Queensland Press)

(10 reviews)

Kate Grenville's bearded ladies live on the fringe of things, where nothing is quite as it seems. Their beards are invisible, but the women, and men, in these highly acclaimed black comedies are just as out of step and out of place as if they were in a side show. See More

Length: 168 Pages (1,371 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Literary Fiction

The Idea of Perfection: Picador Classic

by (Picador)

(367 reviews)

Grenville makes awkward atmospheres and fumbling encounters wonderfully vivid. Read it and cringe' The Times The Idea of Perfection is a funny and touching romance between two people who've given up on love. Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook, New South Wales, pop. 1374, it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, and Harley Savage, a woman... See More

Length: 416 Pages (944 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Contemporary Fiction

Dark Places

by (Picador)

(77 reviews)

Albion Gidley Singer appears an entirely proper man: husband, father, pillar of the community. But he is a hollow man, and within him are frightened and frighteningly dark places from which spring loathing and fear of female flesh. And the kind of violence that might call itself love. Dark Places tells the story of this man - two parts monster to one part buffoon - and of his growing obsession... See More

Length: 384 Pages (871 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Historical Fiction

The Secret River: An adaptation for the stage

by (Currency Press)

(10 reviews)

Convict William Thornhill, exiled from the stinking slums of early 19th century London, discovers that the penal colony offers something that he had never previously dreamed of: a place of his own. A stretch of land on the Hawkesbury River is Thornhill's for the taking. As he and his family seek to establish themselves in this unfamiliar territory, they find that they are not the only ones that... See More

Length: 130 Pages (3,601 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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