Books written by Amanda Lohrey
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The Best Australian Stories 2015
A young woman makes a poignant voyage to the site of her brother’s suicide. Elegant, accomplished and evocative, these short stories move, delight and inspire.
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Four Classic Quarterly Essays on Australian Politics
And here is John Howard almost ninety years later in his 1996 Menzies Lecture: The Liberal Party has never been a party ... Liberal leader Robert Doyle said that he was reading my book Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class with ...
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The Best Australian Stories 2014
Most mornings her eyes look red and sore, though if I ask her what's wrong, she gets grouchy. Dad says he's sorry and tries to make her ... Everyone's quiet after Mum's freaky laughing attack. The only sound is the stupid singing on the ...
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The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award
A moving tale of grief, community and the possibility of starting over, by an award-winning Australian author
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Reading Madame Bovary
... suburbs, looking for clues. Once, when the kids were interstate with my parents and Frank was at a conference in Adelaide, we spent an hysterical weekend together. On the Saturday afternoon we drove out west to see Diana's latest ...
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Quarterly Essay 8 Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens
... an electoral time bomb , and for weeks a detailed pre - election coverage of the pros and cons of GE was spread across the front pages of the New Zealand Herald . We in Australia are yet to have that debate in anything like so 80 QE 8 2002.
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A Short History of Richard Kline: A Novel
This audacious novel is an exploration of masculinity, the mystical and our very human yearning for something more. It is hypnotic, nuanced and Amanda Lohrey's finest offering yet - a pilgrim's progress for the here and now.
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Vertigo
Vertigo is a fable of love and awakening by one of Australia's finest writers, about the unexpected way emotions can return and life can change. ‘Vertigo will keep you up much too late but it’s worth a one-sitting read.’ —West ...