The Shark Net by Robert Drewe

The Shark Net

Author: Robert Drewe

Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city – and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness.

Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers – variously shooting, strangling, stabbing, bludgeoning and hacking his victims and running them down with cars – an innocent Perth was changed forever.

In the middle-class suburbs which were the killer's main stalking grounds, the mysterious murders created widespread anxiety and instant local myth. 'The murders and their aftermath have both intrigued me and weighed heavily on me for three decades. To try to make sense of this time and place, and of my own childhood and adolescence, I had, finally, to write about it.'

The result is The Shark Net, a vibrant and haunting memoir that reaches beyond the dark recesses of murder and chaos to encompass their ordinary suburban backdrop.

The Penguin Book of the Beach

By Robert Drewe

The average Australian has conducted a lifelong love affair with the beach and the ocean shores, bays, dunes, lagoons and rivers of the coast. Until now, however, no one has attempted to match the ancient sensual and artistic preoccupation with the sea to the intuitive appreciation of the coast felt by modern beachgoers.

In this illustrious international selection, Robert Drewe has drawn together twenty-five...

Published: 18/09/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143006374

RRP: $29.95

Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins

By Robert Drewe

Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative re-creation of the inner life of Ned Kelly is written with a brilliant clarity and impressionistic economy. It carries the reader into a dreamworld of astonishing and violent revelation, an entrancing and frightening landscape of murder, sexuality, persecution, robbery, vanity, politics, and corruption...

Published: 28/06/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143204763

RRP: $9.95

Savage Crows

By Robert Drewe

This revelatory story of the most tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history – the 'saving' of a unique race, the Tasmanian Aborigines – is seen through the eyes of an obsessive young present-day narrator. Breathtaking and visionary in its scope, The Savage Crows breaks new fictional ground in its affecting portrayal of the collision of worlds, generations and mythologies...

This revelatory story of the most tragic, cruel, brave and misguided episode in Australia's history – the 'saving' of a unique race, the Tasmanian Aborigines – is seen through the eyes of an...

Published: 03/09/2001

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141007991

RRP: $24.95

The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins

By Robert Drewe

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection...

Published: 29/06/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143180241

RRP: $9.95

The Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems 2010

By Robert Drewe & Cate Kennedy

A special boxset of The Best Australian Stories 2010, The Best Australian Essays 2010 and The Best Australian Poems 2010 .

Published: 04/11/2010

Format: Box

ISBN: 9781863955072

RRP: $69.95

The Best Australian Essays 2010

By Robert Drewe

'I wanted to showcase those subjects which thoughtful and talented Australian writers were absorbed by in this particular year; indeed (I thought), wouldn't it be good to show what this country, and its culture, was about in 2010?'—Robert Drewe

Published: 04/11/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781863954945

RRP: $29.95

Sand

By Robert Drewe & John Kinsella

Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe, teams up with internationally acclaimed poet, John Kinsella, to explore a common geography in poetry and prose.

Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are drawn. For Drewe and Kinsella, it evokes the memories - both personal and cultural...

Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe, teams up with internationally acclaimed poet, John Kinsella, to explore a common geography in poetry and prose.

Sand is quintessentially...

Published: 07/10/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781921361883

RRP: $27.95