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A Sand Archive by Gregory Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research... Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is a ...Show more
Archipelago of Souls (FS) by Gregory Day
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
"Day is one of a small, bold band of Australian novelists...whose imaginative compass is as spacious as is their appetite for risk." The Weekend Australian "Day has chiselled artfully away at his creation, and the result is lovely." The Saturday Paper In the aftermath of the Second World War, an Austral ...Show more
The Bell of the World (shortlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Award) by Gregory Day
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything they do on the farm, Sarah and her uncle form an inspi ...Show more
The Grand Hotel by Gregory Day
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
Robbed of his zest for life by the absurd innovations of his local council, including knocking down the only pub in his home town and roofing over a section of the creek to protect swimmers from the rain, artist Noel Lea exiles himself in the hills above Mangowak, on the southwest Victorian coast. He re ...Show more
The Patron Saint of Eels by Gregory Day
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
A contemporary fable, this book shows that when life seems dull and cruel, it is the power of the natural world, and our ability to imagine it, that can bring the wonder back into living. In the village of Stellanuova in southern Italy in the 1700s, a Franciscan monk, Fra Ionio, becomes known as the Pat ...Show more
Words are Eagles by Gregory Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: SUSTAINABLE
Exquisite and challenging essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaA collection of beautiful and moving essays on the wonder of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaWords are Eagles collects in o ...Show more
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