Robert Drewe

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2000
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • The Shark Net

    Written with the same lyrical intensity and spellbinding prose that has won Robert Drewe's fiction international acclaim, The Shark Net is set in the 1950s in a city haunted by the menace of an elusive serial killer. Drewe's youth in the middle-class...

  • The Bay of Contented Men

    Witty and seductive, inventive and disturbing, The Bay of Contented Men ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Australians whose desires and mi...

  • Fortune

    Fortune is the story of Don Spargo, a modern explorer who finds a sunken treasure ship off the West Australian coast and becomes a folk hero, a lover, and a hunted and haunted man. Suspenseful, satirical, and deeply moving, this novel challenges t...

  • The Bodysurfers

    'These stories breathe. Taut yet teeming with life, they are shot through with gritty phrases that catch at one's throat.' - Sydney Morning Herald Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations...

  • A Cry in the Jungle Bar

    Big, bullish Dick Cullen, light sleeper, former rugby star and present expert on water buffalo, is lumbering through his tour of duty with a UN agency in Asia. Totally out of his depth among his small, deft, knowing colleagues, he lurches sweatily fr...

  • Our Sunshine

    Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life, Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative recreation of the inner life of Ned Kelly, the National Hero and Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes. Written with brilliant clarity and impressionisti...

  • The Drowner

    Will Dance is the son of a "drowner, " a man who understands the secrets of irrigation. With actress Angelica Lloyd, whom he meets at the public baths, Will journeys to western Australia to work on the engineering miracle that was to bring fresh wate...

  • The Savage Crows

  • The Kelly Gang



  • Ned Kelly

    An action-packed historical novel about the legendary Australian gunfighter Ned Kelly follows the notorious outlaw and his gang of "bushrangers" on their violent rampage through the wilderness of Australia. Original. (A Universal Pictures and Working...

  • Grace

  • Swimming to the Moon

    From a floury encounter on a baker's work table to the art of sitting backwards on chairs, from budgie training to spontaneous human combustion, this collection showcases the nonfiction writing of one of Australia's best-loved authors. These ...

  • The Beast and the Briar

    Thirteen-year-old Aisling Mason had always loved to tell faerie stories, she just never expected to end up right in the middle of one. Still, Aisling had made her choice; she had come to the Seven Realms of her own accord in order to save her niece a...

  • Nimblefoot

  • The Rip

  • The True Color of the Sea

    An artist marooned on a remote island in the Arafura Sea contemplates his survival chances. He understands his desperate plight and the ocean's unrelenting power. But what is its true colour? A beguiling young woman nurses a baby by a lake while hid...

  • Whipbird

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Drewe has published 17 books.

Robert Drewe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The True Color of the Sea, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Robert Drewe, The Shark Net, was published in July 2000.

No. Robert Drewe does not write books in series.
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