![]() The paper in this book is manufactured only from wood grown in sustainable regrowth forests.Īll rights reserved. His much-loved novel Eucalyptus won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Award in 1999. Holden’s Performance won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. His first novel, Homesickness, won the National Book Council Award for Australian Literature and the Age Book of the Year Award. ![]() Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories (ed.) ‘This is a book handling modern cultures, a lively romance, and also, like Bail’s previous novels, a jigsaw of reflections on Australia.’ ‘Bail demonstrates his ability to write with a luminous, elemental aura surrounding everything.’ ‘Delicate, cagey, amusing…Better than Eucalyptus.’ ![]() This is a book you can read over and over, gleaning each time new revelations, new and deeper insights.’ ‘A captivating novel…A romance that is as enchanting as it is unexpected. ![]() It is witty and touching, and also graceful and stylized.’ Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2009 ![]()
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