The Last Days of the National Costume

5 best books like The Last Days of the National Costume (Anne Kennedy): When God Was a Rabbit, A Fortunate Life, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster, Foal's Bread, Expectation

When God Was a Rabbit
AuthorSarah Winman
ISBN0755379284
When God was a Rabbit is an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction.

Spanning four decades, from 1968 onwards, this is the story of a fabulous but flawed family and the slew of ordinary and extraordinary incidents that shape their everyday lives. It is a story about...
A Fortunate Life
AuthorAlbert B. Facey
ISBN0140081674
This is the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. It is the story of Albert Facey, who lived with simple honesty, compassion and courage. A parentless boy who started work at eight on the rough West Australian frontier, he struggled as an itinerant rural worker, survived the gore of Gallipoli, the loss...
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
AuthorSarah Krasnostein
ISBN1250101204
Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse and using it to care for some of society's most in-need...
AuthorGillian Mears
ISBN1742376290
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...
Expectation
AuthorAnna Hope
ISBN0857524909
Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.

Ten years on, they are not...
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