The Best Australian Stories

The Best Australian Stories
Author: Black Inc.
Publisher: Black Inc.
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2011-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1921870168

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The best of the best ... This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian fiction at its very best. Contributors include: Murray Bail, Dorothy Johnston, Anna Krien, Patrick Cullen, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nam Le, Robert Drewe, Mandy Sayer, Paddy O’Reilly, Janette Turner Hospital, Delia Falconer, Kate Grenville, Peter Goldsworthy, Cate Kennedy, Eva Hornung, Gillian Mears, Steven Amsterdam, Tom Cho, Jessica Anderson, Campbell Mattinson, Luke Davies, Emily Ballou, Marion Halligan, Karen Hitchcock, Frank Moorhouse, Will Elliott, Amanda Lohrey, Tim Richards, Tara June Winch, Joan London, Liam Davison, Michael Meehan, Sonya Hartnett, Chloe Walker, Ryan O’Neill, Gerald Murnane and Tim Winton.

The Grass Sister

The Grass Sister
Author: Gillian Mears
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9781761281181

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Trying to understand what might have happened to her sister, Ann-Clare, Avis reads through her letters. It's been more than ten years since she disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Africa, their parents' homeland. The story slowly reveals Ann-Clare's history, including her tragedies, as her sister uncovers and revisits them one by one. "The Grass Sister" is an evocative, moving, timeless novel about death, dying, sibling relationships and moving forward while making sense of the past.

The Mint Lawn

The Mint Lawn
Author: Gillian Mears
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1742697267

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Winner of the 1990 Australian/Vogel Award, GIllian Meares' debut novel is set on the north coast of New South Wales and tells the story of the varied relationships and personal growth of a 25-year-old woman in a rural community.

The Book Review

The Book Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1997
Genre: Books
ISBN:

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Fineflour

Fineflour
Author: Gillian Mears
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780702223112

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Collection of short stories by the author of TRide a Cock Horse', winner of the 1989 South East Asian and South Pacific First Book Award in the British Commonwealth Writers Prize. The stories are linked together by the river Fineflour and its place in the lives of the characters through successive generations.

Australian Book Review

Australian Book Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2004-02
Genre: Books
ISBN:

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Writing Woman, Writing Place

Writing Woman, Writing Place
Author: Sue Kossew
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1134448112

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This book analyses the ways in which contemporary women writers in the two 'settler' colonies of Australia and South Africa explore notions of self, identity and place in their fiction.