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The Happy Life
David Malouf

ISBN10: 0701187115 ISBN13: 9780701187118
Publisher: Vintage Chatto & Windus
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 29 Dec 2011
Addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? This title explores the sensual happiness of the flesh; covers the difficulties of the modern world's obsession with consumption; and, finally the consolation and... More

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Ransom
David Malouf

ISBN10: 0099539527 ISBN13: 9780099539520
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Oct 2010
From the walls of Troy, King Priam watches the body of his son Hector being dragged behind Achilles' chariot. There must be a way of reclaiming the body - of pitting compromise against heroics, new ways against the old, and of forcing the hand of... More

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An Imaginary Life
David Malouf

ISBN10: 0099273845 ISBN13: 9780099273844
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 May 1999
The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature. More

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Fly Away Peter
David Malouf

ISBN10: 0099273829 ISBN13: 9780099273820
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 May 1999
It is the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1914, and a man returns home from England to claim the land he has inherited. For Ashley Crowther, it is a landscape "that could accommodate a good deal". For Jim Saddler, the land is a sanctuary. More

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The Great World
David Malouf

ISBN10: 0099273861 ISBN13: 9780099273868
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 May 1999
For the two men in this novel, war was supposed to be a testing ground. But it proved to be an ordeal of a different kind. Spanning 70 years of Australian life, from Sydney's Cross to the backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, this is a novel of lost... More

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Dream Stuff
David Malouf

ISBN10: 0099289903 ISBN13: 9780099289906
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2001
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, this book presents stories that conjure up the memories and events that make a man. More

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ISBN: 9780099502586 - Every Move You Make

Every Move You Make
David Malouf

ISBN10: 0099502585 ISBN13: 9780099502586
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jan 2008
Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - this title presents their stories. Bookish boys and taciturn men... More

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ISBN: 9780099302421 - Remembering Babylon

Remembering Babylon
David Malouf

ISBN10: 009930242X ISBN13: 9780099302421
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 19 May 1994
A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds. David Malouf, himself an Australian... More

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Jane Eyre
David Malouf

ISBN10: 0099569892 ISBN13: 9780099569893
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jul 2011
An opera that deals with the love between Jane and Mr Rochester, and the mystery of the woman behind the locked door. Perfectly preserving the tone and mood of the novel whilst condensing it into two acts, David Malouf, with the gift for language... More

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Johnno
David Malouf

ISBN10: 0702234966 ISBN13: 9780702234965
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jul 2004
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek... More

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