Come in Spinner
10 best books like Come in Spinner (Dymphna Cusack): The Tree Of Man, Grand Days, The Swallows, Scrublands, The River Widow, Harmony, Power Without Glory, Foal's Bread, The Shark Net, When You Read This
| Author | Patrick White |
| ISBN | 0099324512 |
Patrick White’s style is a unique blend of roughness and literacy that can become quite absorbing, mesmerizing even, for its timelessness. The minor details of ordinary lives fuse with poetic vision and transform the common experience of man into the absolute essence that holds the power to make...
| Author | Frank Moorhouse |
| ISBN | 1740510372 |
A contemporary romantic Australian masterpiece, Grand Days tells of the moral and sexual awakening of an idealistic young Australian woman working in the diplomatic corps in Europe in the aftermath of World War I.
On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood...
| Author | Lisa Lutz |
| ISBN | 1984818236 |
A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series.
What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?
It starts with this simple writing prompt...
| Author | Chris Hammer |
| ISBN | 1760632988 |
In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself.
A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write...
From the bestselling author of The Whiskey Sea comes a stirring novel of a young woman’s survival and liberation during the Great Depression.
In 1937, with flood waters approaching, Adah Branch accidentally kills her abusive husband, Lester, and surrenders his body to the raging river,...
| Author | Carolyn Parkhurst |
| ISBN | 0399562605 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly "normal" family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and move to a "family camp" in New Hampshire--a life-changing experience that alters them forever.
How...
Power Without Glory caused a sensation when it was released, leading to a famous court case. It is a thinly veiled description of the rise to power of real life figure John Wren (in the book 'John West').
Some other people alluded to in the book include Tommy Bent, Sir Samuel Gillott, the gangster...
| Author | Gillian Mears |
| ISBN | 1742376290 |
The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to the part of his heart that understands such things, then he should go for a gallop. At the very least he should stand at the road by the river imagining...
| Author | Robert Drewe |
| ISBN | 0143002155 |
Author(s): Robert Drewe ISBN: 9780143002154 Binding: Paperback Published: 2003-06-01 Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness. Then...
| Author | Mary Adkins |
| ISBN | 0062834703 |
For fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell, a comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts.
Iris Massey is gone.
But she’s left something behind.
For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi,...
