This is an elegant and resonant story of change and the loss of innocence set in post-war Melbourne. This is the story of one evening in the lives of the residents of a new outer suburb. As a mighty steam train leaves Spencer Street Station, a group of neighbours gather to celebrate a young girl's engagement...

The Art of the Engine Driver

Steven Carroll

HarperCollins Publishers (Aust

When the West Indies cricket team arrive in Australia in the summer of 1960, Michael at 16, is enthralled. As the summer unfolds, Michael realises that he has learnt many things, about his parents, his suburb, a girl and himself.

Gift of Speed

Harper-perennial

The Time We Have Taken

That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment. One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old. That same morning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband's snores, yet it is years since Vic moved north. Their son, Michael, has left for the city, and is entering the awkward terrain of first love. As the suburb prepares to celebrate progress, Michael's friend Mulligan is commissioned to paint a mural of the area's history. But what vision of the past will his painting reveal? Meanwhile, Rita's sometime friend Mrs Webster confronts the mystery of her husband's death. And Michael discovers that innocence can only be sustained for so long. The Time We Have Taken is both a meditation on the rhythms of suburban life and a luminous exploration of public and private reckoning during a time of radical change. 'a writer worth cherishing. His prose is unfailingly assured, lyrical, poised' The Australian 'moving and indelible in its evocation of the extraordinary in ordinary lives' Miles Franklin Literary Award Judges

A World of Other People is a life-affirming evocation of love in war time, when every decision, and every day, matters. Set in 1941 during the Blitz, Steven Carroll's cinematic new novel traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright young Londoner, finding her voice as a writer. Haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, the couple struggles to build a future free of society's thin-lipped disapproval. Iris shares rooftop firewatching duties with the poet TS Eliot, who unwittingly seals their fate with his famous verse 'Little Gidding'. Miles Franklin Award-winning author Steven Carroll has produced a delicate yet unflinching piece of historical fiction that captures quiet romance in the midst of great unrest.

A World of Other People

Fourth Estate

Forever Young

HARPER COLLINS AUSTRALIA

The Art of the Engine Driver (A&R Classics)

Harpercollins

Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight

Literature & Fiction

Literary

4th Estate - AU

Death of a Foreign Gentleman

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

4th Estate

As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, a family of three-- Vic, Rita, and their son, Michael-- are off to a party. George Bedser has invited the whole neighborhood to celebrate the engagement of his daughter. Vic is an engine driver, with dreams of being like his hero Paddy Ryan and becoming the master of the smooth ride. As the neighbors walk to the party, the story delves into the lives of a bully, a drunk, a restless girl, and a young boy forced to grow up before he is ready. The Art of the Engine Driver is a luminous and evocative tale of ordinary suburban lives, told with an extraordinary power and depth.

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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