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The Secret River
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The Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, "The Secret River" is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a ...
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The Lieutenant
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A stunning follow-up to her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning book, "The Secret River," Grenville's "The Lieutenant" is a gripping story about friendship, self-discovery, and the power of language set along the unspoiled shores of 1788 New South Wales. As a boy, Daniel Rooke was an outsider. Ridiculed in school and misunderstood by his parents, ...
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The Idea of Perfection
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Winner of the Orange Prize in Britain, Kate Grenville's THE IDEA OF PERFECTION is set in a small Australian town where two awkward misfits--Douglas, an engineer, and Harley, a museum curator--find themselves at odds until, unexpectedly, they fall in love. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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Searching for the Secret River
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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 ...
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Albion's Story
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In LILIAN'S STORY, Grenville's debut novel, Lil undergoes a violent trauma at the hands of her father that lands her in an asylum. This is her father's story...The novel traces the life of this fact-obsessed social outcast as he eats away at the lives of those around him. Grenville paints a convincing portrait of a very numb man who must inflict ...
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Dark Places
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Set in Sydney in the late-19th century, Albion Singer appears entirely proper - a husband, father and pillar of the community. But within him are dark places from which spring loathing and a fear of female flesh and the kind of violence that might call itself love.
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Writing Book: A Workbook for Fiction Writers
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Kate Grenville
A workbook that offers down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for anyone interested in getting started or honing their creative writing skills. "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 ...
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Writing from Start to Finish: A Six-Step Guide
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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 story, essay, review or report, you can follow the same six steps every time. ...
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Lilian's Story
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The debut novel from Kate Grenville chronicling the life of Lil Sanger. Her painful life is traced in detail--from rejections by men to a violent incident with her father that lands her in an insane asylum, and her eventual removal from the institution.
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Dreamhouse
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Kate Grenville
This novel is concerned with the mystery and menace underpinning everyday life, focusing on Louise and Rennie whose dreamhouse, a decaying Tuscan villa is, in reality, the stuff of nightmares. However, as the long, hot summer and the story progresses, Louise's life begins to ripen with new and unconventional possibilities. Kate Grenville is the ...
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Bearded Ladies
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Kate Grenville
These bearded ladies live on the fringe 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.
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Bearded Ladies: Stories
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Making stories : how ten Australian novels were written
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Kate Grenville, Sue Woolfe
Good writers make writing look easy - but is it? Anyone learning to write should be encouraged by "Making Stories" - it shows that even our greatest novelists come to their books by a long and uncertain process. "Making Stories" shows ten acclaimed Australian authors at work, painstakingly constructing their books from rough notes, dimly-glimpsed ...
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Joan Makes History
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Kate Grenville
A rewrite of the history of Australia from the viewpoint of a woman named Joan. Though she has never rated a mention in the history books, she has been present at all the big moments in her country's past. Ranging from the first landing in 1770 to the gold rush of 1851.
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Jason Makes History
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Kate Grenville
This wonderfully irreverent novel rewrites Australia's history from the perspective of a woman who has never been mentioned in the school books. She is a wife and mother of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is at all the big moments of Australia's past.
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The Idea of Perfection
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The Lieutenant
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Kate Grenville
As a boy, Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. At school, he learned to hide his clever thoughts from his cruel peers; at home, his parents were bemused by their bookish son. Daniel could only hope - against all the evidence - that he would one day find his place in life. By 1788, Daniel has become Lieutenant Rooke, astronomer with the First Fleet ...
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The Lieutenant
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Kate Grenville, Tom Hollander (Read by)
As a boy, Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. At school he learned to hide his clever thoughts from his cruel peers; at home his parents were bemused by their bookish son. Daniel could only hope ? against all the evidence ? that he would one day find his place in life. By 1788, Daniel has become Lieutenant Rooke, astronomer with the First Fleet ...
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El rio secreto/ The Secret River
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Kate Grenville
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Der Verborgene Fluss
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Kate; Rademacher Grenville, Anne; Of, Karina
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