The Secret River

Literature & Fiction

Kate, Grenville

Literary

Canongate

This book doesn't just talk about how to write fiction: it takes you through the process of doing it. It is a practical, step-by-step guide and if you work through it chapter by chapter you will have a piece of fiction at the end. How does it work? Dozens of detailed exercises, each one building on the one before; chapters focusing on specific aspects of writing: how to get started, how to bring characters to life, how to write dialogue, how to revise, etc; examples from contemporary Australian writing, showing the range from traditional to innovative styles. "The Writing Book" is an essential source of down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for - anyone who would like to write but isn't sure how to start; those who have done some writing but need to refine and revise; classes in creative writing; advanced students of ESL.

The Writing Book: A Workbook for Fiction Writers

Allen& Unwin

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Lillian's Story

Contemporary

Pan/Macmillan

Dark Places

Albion Gidley Singer appears an entirely proper man: husband, father, pillar of the community. But he is a hollow man, and within him are frightened and frighteningly dark places from which spring loathing and fear of female flesh. And the kind of violence that might call itself love. Dark Places tells the story of this man - two parts monster to one part buffoon - and of his growing obsession. As the horror mounts, we gain a terrifying glimpse of the male ego's dark side, and of the destruction it can wreak upon itself and others. Yet at the same time Kate Grenville keeps alive the reader's sympathy for this doomed figure. This is a novel that fearlessly confronts the aspects of ourselves from which we normally recoil.

Picador

Idea of Perfection

PAN MACMILLAN U.K

Joan Makes History

Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife, Sal, and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a death sentence. But among the convicts there is a whisper that freedom can be bought, an opportunity to start afresh. Away from the infant township of Sydney, up the Hawkesbury River, are white men who have tried to do just that. But, as uninhabited as the island appears at first, Australia is full of native people, and they too claim the land as their own. Already a best-seller in Australia, The Secret River is the dramatic and potent story of Grenville’s ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people.

LILIAN'S STORY

George Allen Unwin

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