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Forever Young by Steven Carroll
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Glenroy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The fifth novel in the acclaimed Glenroy series by multi-award winning novelist Steven Carroll. Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award And is nostalgia not so much a longing for a place or a time, as a longing for youth itself? Forever Young is set against the tumultuous period of c ...Show more
Spirit of Progess by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Glenroy Ser.
The thing that makes you, it never goes. A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer, and his travelling world of memory and speculation. Melbourne, 1946, calls to him: the pressure cooker of the city during World War II has produced a s ...Show more
The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Glenroy Ser.
On a hot summer's night in the 1950s, the old and the new, diesel and steam, town and country all collide - and nobody will be left unaffected. As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, a family of three - Vic, Rita and their son Michael - are off to a party. George Bedse ...Show more
The Gift of Speed by Steven Carroll
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Glenroy Ser.
In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia, bringing with them a carnival of music, colour and possibility. Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled. If, like his heroes, he has the gift of speed, he will move beyond his suburb into the great world...And yet, as his summer unfolds, Michael realises that ...Show more
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Glenroy Ser.
One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old. That same morning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband's snores, yet it is years since Vic moved north. Their son, Michael, has left for the city, and ...Show more
Year of the Beast (Glenroy Book #6) by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Glenroy Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
One of Australia's finest and most critically acclaimed writers returns with a powerful novel that goes back to the very beginning of the story, to bring his sweeping Glenroy series to a magnificent close. Melbourne, 1917: the times are tumultuous, the city is in the grip of a kind of madness. The Grea ...Show more
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