Patrick White

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases. Laura, waiting in Sydney, moves through the months of separation as if they were a dream and Voss the only reality.

Voss

Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, subtle and sweeping, Riders in the Chariot is one of the Nobel Prize winner's boldest books.

Riders in the Chariot

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.

The Tree of Man

Paperback reprint in the 'Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series of a novel first published in 1970. It traces the life of a painter from his birth at the turn of the century until his death in the 60s. He dissects his experiences and relationships for the sake of his art. The Australian author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.

The Vivisector

In 1836 a woman leaving Australia for England believes she is leaving behind her a multitude of vices and temptations, but the ship upon which she is sailing will never reach its destination, and there are ahead of her ordeals more trying than those she is leaving behind.

A Fringe of Leaves

First published in 1979, this is the second-last novel published by the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The sexually ambiguous Eddie Twyborn is encountered in three stages of his life - as Eudoxia, the lover of an elderly Greek man; as Eddie, a jackeroo in the Australian outback; and as Eadith, the madam of a high-class London brothel. This is a paperback reprint in the 'Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series.

The Twyborn Affair

Paperback reprint in the 'Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics' series of the second novel by the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Set in London in the 1930s, it portrays the complex rhythms of relationships within a family. First published in 1941. The author's other novels include 'The Tree of Man' and 'The Eye of the Storm'.

The Living and the Dead

Aunts Story

The Solid Mandala

A Self-Portrait

Flaws in the Glass

فوس

Five-Twenty

Two children spirited away from the war in Europe and given shelter by an elderly widow in a house on Australia's Neutral Bay forge a complex friendship that shapes them for years to come.

A Novel

The Hanging Garden

select the right species, raise the best trees, market for the holidays

Growing Christmas trees

Burnt Ones

"With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating other people's lives, even in love and pity, can lead to madness. Her ability to reconcile joy and sorrow is an unbearable torture to her. On the journey home, Theodora finds there is little to choose between the reality of illusion and the illusion of reality. She looks for peace, even if it is beyond the borders of insanity."--Provided by publisher.

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