Roo Book

Literature & Fiction

Curtis, Neil

United States

Penguin Group Australia

This book has a dimension of urgency, rare in conventional works of history, because it relies on the testimony of eyewitnesses.  It records the experiences and emotions of the reporters who were there.

An Eyewitness History of Australia

History

Gordon, Harry

Australia & Oceania

HERE COME THE PHILISTINES: Robyn Williams on the Art of Science

Science & Math

Robyn Williams

History & Philosophy

Of a Boy

Sonya Hartnett

Contemporary

Art of Australia

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Huges, Robert

Antiques & Collectibles

From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet where they begin their lives from scratch. For twenty years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.

Cloudstreet

Winton,Tim

Final Exit : The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Derek Humphry

Psychology & Counseling

A fictional account of a family's encounter with mental illness, this is the story of Poppy, a young mother forced to spend years in a sanatorium against her will.

Poppy

Modjeska, Drusilla

tim-winton

Minimum of two

'These stories are a wonderful introduction to his quirky fictional world -- gutsy, funny, lyrical but unpretentious Independent Tim Winton's second short-story collection explores the complexity of human relationships through the themes of futility and hope, revenge and redemption, birth and death that twist through each tale in turn, emerging, re-emerging, competing, conflicting. As characters, too, surface and reappear, their lives are slowly, painstakingly revealed. Through frozen moments and stolen glances, their stories -- and histories -- are told, their emotions exposed, their souls stripped bare. Threaded together by Tim Winton's haunting prose, the tales in Minimum of Two ultimately offer an optimistic view of the world in which we live. 'Winton ...writes with a muscular looseness which is suited perfectly to the people and places he is describing' The Times 'Tim Winton has cracked something essential about modern Australia: how to find meaning in the intimate and terrible parts of contemporary family life, set against a landscape which is inhumanly vast' Evening Standard 'The vividness and clarity that Mr Winton responds to in nature are also beautifully embodied in his own writing' The Economist

Minimum of Two

Short Stories & Anthologies

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