The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories brings together forty-nine outstanding tales, capturing the expansiveness of imagination, the prolific creativity, and the richness of sympathy of Australia's great literary tradition.
The volume spans ...
In the classic tradition of novels of literary life, this fictional memoir deals with the rise and fall of hopes and aspirations. In the sixties the protagonist arrives in Sydney, eager to scale the literary heights. Thirty years later he is not quit...
First published in 1980, Political Fictions is a work of literary criticism with emphasis on the specific handling of literary forms. The author examines the way in which writers exploring radical politics simultaneously explore radical literary poss...