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The Secret River
The Text Publishing Company 2005; US$ 22.99Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in London's slums, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. But freedom can be bought, and when Thornhill claims a patch of land by the Hawkesbury River, the battle lines between the old and new inhabitants are drawn. more...
Writing from Start to Finish
Allen & Unwin 2001; US$ 22.68A new handbook to help beginners kickstart their writing by prize-winning author and long-time writing teacher, Kate Grenville. more...
The Idea of Perfection
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 14.00Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. They meet in the little Australian town of Karakarook, where Harley has arrived to help the... more...
Lilian's Story
Allen & Unwin 2008; US$ 21.77The heartwarming story of Lilian Singer, who starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family and ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare for more...
The Writing Book
Allen & Unwin 2010; US$ 24.53A completely practical workbook that offers down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for writers or aspiring writers to get you started and to keep you going. more...
The Lieutenant
The Text Publishing Company 2010; US$ 22.99The Lieutenant is the profoundly moving tale of a young soldier's arrival in Australia on the First Fleet and the extraordinary friendship he develops with the local Aboriginal people. But for Daniel Rooke, soldier and astronomer, this friendship and his duty as a soldier, will result in a decision that will define the course of his entire life. more...
Dark Places
The Text Publishing Company 2010; US$ 23.95Kate Grenville, author of the award-winning The Secret River, explores the mind of one of her most powerful creations: a man who can persuade himself that he has the right, even the duty, to conquer and subdue the mocking flesh of women. Even his daughter Lilianâ?¦the unforgettable character Grenville introduced in her brilliant debut Lilian's Story. more...
Searching for the Secret River
The Text Publishing Company 2010; US$ 22.99Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman, a convict who later found fortune and settled on the Hawkesbury. Grenville pursued him from Sydney to London and back, and then up the Hawkesbury itself. more...
Sarah Thornhill
The Text Publishing Company 2011; US$ 29.95This is the story of Sarah Thornhill, youngest child of the family at the heart of Kate Grenvilleâ??s multi-award-winning novel The Secret River. Handsome Jack Langland loves Sarah and she loves him. But thereâ??s an ugly secret in Sarahâ??s family that takes her into the darkness of the past, and to the wild coasts of New Zealand. more...
Dark Places
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 6.38Dark Places tells the story of this man ? two parts monster to one part buffoon ? and of his growing obsession. As the horror mounts, we gain a terrifying glimpse of the male ego?s dark side, and of the destruction it can wreak upon itself and others. Yet at the same time Kate Grenville keeps alive the reader?s sympathy for this doomed figure. This... more...









