Frank Moorhouse, one of Australia's most celebrated writers, has chosen twenty-seven pieces that, he says, 'set a new benchmark in the standard of the short story'. Inventive, adventurous, seductive and entertaining, the stories range in setting from...
Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of drover's wife works, stories and images. The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 extende...