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Cherrywood by Jock Serong
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From multiple award-winning author, Jock Serong, comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention. 'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its way ...Show more
Lines to the Horizon: Australian Surf Writing by Jock Serong Sally Breen Emily Brugman Sam Carmody Madelaine Dickie Jack Sandtner Mark Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Tim Winton says, 'Surfing is not just a subculture, it is culture, and here's proof', while Jock Serong says that the collection demonstrates our horizons are unlimited. From Gold Coast surf culture to the relationships of humans to the sea and from surf travel in Mexico to Taj Burrow's final campaign ...Show more
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined
For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad-comedian John Clark-and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser o ...Show more
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out.Not far from Da ...Show more
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out.Not far from Da ...Show more
Preservation by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Seventeen men survived the shipwreck of the rum-smuggling Sydney Cove--but only three are picked up on a beach near the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797. The three men have walked hundreds of miles across an alien landscape. They are distressed and injured. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive- ...Show more
Quota by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees that the sea air might be good ...Show more
The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she k ...Show more
The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A father's obsession. A daughter's quest.Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern-too old, now-for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"It starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single mother. The endless glow of summer, the bottomless fury of contest. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game. Darren has two big talents: cricket and tr ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
The Settlement by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock Serong On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women.He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, ...Show more