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  • The Bodysurfers

    by Robert Drewe ...
    'These stories breathe. Taut yet teeming with life, they are shot through with gritty phrases that catch at one's throat.' - Sydney Morning HeraldSet among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Drowner

    by Robert Drewe ...
    In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidentally collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes them from the Wiltshire Downs to the most elemental choices of life and death in the Australian desert. Their intense romance is but part of the daring story that unfolds. Mingling history, myth and technology ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Bodysurfers: Penguin Special

    Penguin Special

    by Robert Drewe ...
    Haunted by the brutal murder of a local couple, David heads to his weekend shack with his new lover, Lydia, and his children from his recently crumbled marriage. Together they find escape, if only briefly, in the ocean and the bush.The Bodysurfers, the title story of Robert Drewe's classic first collection, is a vivid evocation of love, passion, terror and the beauty of the beach. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Swimming to the Moon

    by Robert Drewe ...
    From a floury encounter on a baker's work table to the art of sitting backwards on chairs, from budgie training to spontaneous human combustion, this collection showcases the nonfiction writing of one of Australia's best-loved authors. These pieces encompass suburban portraits and coastal living, affectionate nostalgia and the absurdity of the every day. They are endearing and often hilarious ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cry in the Jungle Bar

    by Robert Drewe ...
    Big, bullish Dick Cullen, light sleeper, former rugby star and present expert on water buffalo, is lumbering through his tour of duty with a UN agency in Asia. Totally out of his depth among his small, deft, knowing colleagues, he lurches sweatily from bar to bar across various tropical states of emergency. Only in the Nameless Nightclub does he realise it is just a matter of time before his ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Fortune

    by Robert Drewe ...
    A tale of passion and pursuit, Fortune is the story of Don Spargo, a modern explorer who finds a sunken treasure ship off the West Australian coast and becomes a folk hero, a lover, and a hunted and haunted man. Suspenseful, satirical and deeply moving, this novel challenges the nature of reality and legend in those scenes of modern conflict – from the media to art, from politics to crime – that ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Bay of Contented Men

    by Robert Drewe ...
    Witty and seductive, inventive and disturbing, The Bay of Contented Men ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Australians whose desires and misadventures are conjured here into intriguing fictions. Robert Drewe's characters face the confrontation of gender, race and generation with an ironic ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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    The Shark Net

    by Robert Drewe ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 28 min

    Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness. Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers - variously shooting, strangling, stabbing, bludgeoning and hacking his victims and running them down ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Drowner

    by Robert Drewe ...
    Narrated by Paul English ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 5 min

    In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidentally collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes them from the Wiltshire Downs to the most elemental choices of life and death in the Australian desert. Their intense romance is but part of the daring story that unfolds. Mingling history, myth and technology ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Montebello

    by Robert Drewe ...
    Narrated by Robert Meldrum ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 52 min

    'Listen to me,' my mother says. 'They've let off an atom bomb today. Right here in W.A. Atom bombs worry the blazes out of me, and I want you at home.' In the sleepy and conservative 1950s, the British began a series of nuclear tests in the Montebello archipelago off the west coast of Australia. Even today, few people know about the three huge atom bombs that were detonated there, but they lodged ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Beast and the Briar

    Book One of the Seven Realms Saga

    by Robert Drew ...
    Series Book 1 - The Seven Realms Saga
    Thirteen-year-old Aisling Mason had always loved to tell faerie stories, she just never expected to end up right in the middle of one. Still, Aisling had made her choice; she had come to the Seven Realms of her own accord in order to save her niece and nephew. She's just not sure what to do about her newfound destiny. On her journey through this unfamiliar world, Aisling will encounter all manner ... Read more

    $8.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Night Shift

    A Gay Lovers Romance

    by Alex Roberts ...
    Narrated by Drew Leland ...
    Series series The Neon Glass Club

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    Working the night shift at a general store in the middle of nowhere is getting me nowhere fast.I'm starting to feel just how much of my life is passing me by. I'm not a kid anymore, but I'm in a dead end job, barely paying attention at college, and my life is just floating past me.Until the snow storm of the year hits.Jamie was just trying to make his last delivery and get home, but now we're ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus