A collection of stories selected by some of Australia's greatest writers as their best or favourite story and edited by Garry Disher. Each author also discusses the story's origins and how it was made, thus providing a glimpse of the writer at work.

Personal best (Imprint)

Garry, Disher

Angus&Robertson

Paul is a dreamer, his head is alive with rippling pianos, gentle violins and the smiles of Margaret, the one he loves.  But in the cold light of day, Margaret snubs him at school, the piano has been sold, his father is battling to keep the farm, and dejected men are tramping the roads ... looking for work, a sandwich, a cup of tea... No-one has time for music or dreams. Then Eric the Red comes along with his silver flute, his knowing wink and boots held together with wire. Eric the Red who knows how to make a flute from a piece of bamboo...

The Bamboo Flute

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Hart is the son of a wealthy pearling master, Mitsy the daughter of a Japanese diver. Together they unconciously cross the boundaries of class and race, as they swim, joke and watch films in the local cinema. Then their world changes. Hart's mother abandons them for England, a terrible cyclone kills Mitsy's father and cripples Hart and most terrible of all - the war starts. As Japanese bombs fall on northern Australia, loyalties are divided, and love and friendship are put to the test.This is a beautifully crafted story evoking a war-devastated Australia and its agonising consequences on young adults forced to leave their childhood behind.

Divine Wind

Hodder Children`S Books

A collection of stories depicting life in the mid-1990s on the fringes of Australia's large cities and further out to the country towns. The book includes stories by Fiona McGregor, Archie Weller, Gillian Mears and Les Murray.

Out West Australian Dirt

Literature & Fiction

John Dale

Short Stories & Anthologies

HARPER/COLLINS

The divine wind

Hodder Headline

Eva's Angel

Lothian Children's Books

A gripping novel about a boy who begins to uncover his past, only to realise it's not so different to to the present. Nat Whistler discovers he's descended from the Whistler who rode with bushranger Captain Kidd. Nat begins to investigate the past, reading the journal of Moondyne Kate, but finds the present dangerous too...Age 11-14.

Moondyne Kate

Hodder

Hachette Australia

Short Story International (SSI) Volume 11, Number 64 (Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers Presented Unabridged, Volume 11)

Irena Ioannidou Adamidou

International Cultural Exchange

<p>Who shall inherit the sins of the father?\nTwenty years ago, Charlie Deravin's mother went missing, believed murdered. Her body has never been found, and his father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since.\nNow Charlie has returned to the coastal town where his mother vanished, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother's disappearance, he's run out of leads.\nThen the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building site... and the past comes crashing in on Charlie.</p>

The Way It Is Now

Viper

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